Why do men like women who act like little girls?

I've been thinking about this for a while, men often complain that women like "bad guys" and not "nice ones" like them. But there's a rarely acknowleged equivalent, men going for little girly princesses, the child women, who pretend they don't understand things and can't do things and all the men think it's cute and go falling over themselves to help, the rest of us just get told not to be stupid and learn how to fix it ourselves. The child woman, will also be incredibly manipulative and often end up taking the man for a ride, emotionaly and often financially too and they seem to keep getting away with it. Men I know who've come out of a relationship with these sort of women, swear they never want to be in a relationship like that again, but within months or sometimes weeks have found another who treats them just as badly and they seem incapable of learning from their mistakes.

I'm not trying to have a go at anyone here, apart from maybe the child women, I'm just curious to know if others recognise this pattern of behaviour and how they deal with it? 

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  • I was on a different planet earlier, and probably still am. I get the damsel in distress bit, but I have only seen that sort of behaviour on TV, and I think much of that was in cartoons, comedy, films and drama, rather than real life.

    I think some women didn’t use to do ‘traditional male’ things like simple home repairs and home maintenance. Societal expectations and norms have perhaps played a role in enabling such behaviours to continue if there is an advantage (even if it is unfair/distorted) to the woman. 

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  • I was on a different planet earlier, and probably still am. I get the damsel in distress bit, but I have only seen that sort of behaviour on TV, and I think much of that was in cartoons, comedy, films and drama, rather than real life.

    I think some women didn’t use to do ‘traditional male’ things like simple home repairs and home maintenance. Societal expectations and norms have perhaps played a role in enabling such behaviours to continue if there is an advantage (even if it is unfair/distorted) to the woman. 

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