Norah Vincent - a woman who actually tried in a serious way to live as a man - found this out for herself:
http://www.salon.com/2006/01/20/vincent_2/
"On the other hand, the 30-ish single women Ned dates in the “Love” chapter come off as aggressively hostile and profoundly confused creatures — on one hand, they want sensitive men capable of emotional communication, while on the other they want a take-charge guy who can pay for dinner, open doors and then, a bit later, “pin them to the bed.” Wounded in previous relationships, they transformed each new man (even when he wasn’t a man) “into the malignancy they were expecting him to be,” thereby fueling a “self-perpetuating cycle of unkindness and discontent.”..."
"She ultimately discovered that men have it tough: They must be more reserved and on guard, and many of them are lonely. And Vincent found that she’s glad to be a woman. “In a post-feminist world, the definition of what’s acceptably female is a lot larger now than the definition of what’s acceptably male,” she said. “That’s what made it so hard to be a guy, because as a woman I have so much more latitude.”