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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  • Those 'Men' are probably Laddish, themselves.

    No Man in the World can heal a woman with Daddy Issues. She's just 'Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie!' Then she'll run off, and use the 'Silver Bullet' tactic to say you mistreated her.

    Not all young Women are Lucy TikToks. Unless their entire lives are spent online and on TV.

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  • Those 'Men' are probably Laddish, themselves.

    No Man in the World can heal a woman with Daddy Issues. She's just 'Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie!' Then she'll run off, and use the 'Silver Bullet' tactic to say you mistreated her.

    Not all young Women are Lucy TikToks. Unless their entire lives are spent online and on TV.

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