
It just takes a bit of adjusting to I guess when people are taught that genders should act one way, we're pitted against each other before we ever get to learn the ways of the world for ourselves
Life gets so much more straight forward when you take things as you find them
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Life gets so much more straight forward when you take things as you find them

And try to stop their sweetie from enjoying himself.
It gives the rest of us a bad name, and it's unfair on the men.
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Fri 5 Oct 2007, 11:11,
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It gives the rest of us a bad name, and it's unfair on the men.

But seriously, bang on, it's one of my all time pet peeves

I still enjoyed myself, and I'll still pick her up in the car from nights out at three in the morning without complaining. I think it's just that men and women have different ways of showing that they love each other...
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Partially created by the media.
You either treat someone with respect or not.
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Fri 5 Oct 2007, 11:24,
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You either treat someone with respect or not.

I didn't really mean "Men and Women", I just meant "people" as everyone's different and so on, but I got in a word tangle and that was the easiest way to put it....
Silly words. If only I could draw.
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Fri 5 Oct 2007, 11:28,
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Silly words. If only I could draw.

Though maybe more than I originally used to think, but that's what we grow up seeing and believing, so that's how we act.
If you take little 'uns you find girls just as enthusiastic about playing with trucks as boys, and boys just as likely to be emotional as girls...but somewhere along the road we learn how 'wrong' that is and start 'acting more like a young lady' or stop 'acting like a pansy'.
We start playing our roles in this vast game of boy vs. girl, and spend the rest of our lives trying to manipulate each other from our own ways of being.
I'm just not convinced it really has to be that way if you don't want it to be.
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If you take little 'uns you find girls just as enthusiastic about playing with trucks as boys, and boys just as likely to be emotional as girls...but somewhere along the road we learn how 'wrong' that is and start 'acting more like a young lady' or stop 'acting like a pansy'.
We start playing our roles in this vast game of boy vs. girl, and spend the rest of our lives trying to manipulate each other from our own ways of being.
I'm just not convinced it really has to be that way if you don't want it to be.

I think all people really need is a bit of empathy every now and then.... regardless of gender... Every situation, and every person is different and it's how you rect to that I suppose...
See explanation of wording above... didn't really mean "Men and Women" per se....
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Fri 5 Oct 2007, 11:37,
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See explanation of wording above... didn't really mean "Men and Women" per se....

Apologies for the suspiciously mini-rantish response, it's just one of my interests...and still something that perplexes me about the world after years of studying it!
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Sadly, sitting in coffee shiop windows just watching people often makes people thing you're a weirdo...
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