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okay, sure, but my relationship with a girlfriend IS face-to-face (not side-by-side). it's not that we don't want intimacy, its just that if we're merely drinki
by dustingetz 17y ago
okay, sure, but my relationship with a girlfriend IS face-to-face (not side-by-side). it's not that we don't want intimacy, its just that if we're merely drinking buddies, I don't care. Maybe women have social pressure and upbringing that prompts them to pretend to care, or need to care out of being a socialite, and men don't face those pressures so just don't bother.
- nfnaaron 17y agoIt's an obviously complicated question. Men and women are different. They are, and there's nothing wrong with that. Different people fall at different points along their stereotype lines. Where the difference can lead to conflict is when people on opposite sides of that difference don't notice or acknowledge it, and/or don't accept it. "How could you possibly think different from me?" Anecdote of one: When my kid was four in pre-school their class played a game where they threw water balloons out on a measured field. Each time the balloon didn't break you threw again. When the balloon broke you were to go stand at the side of the field, at the distance where your balloon broke, to mark your score. All the boys stood proudly by their distances. All the girls clustered with the first girl at her score point. There may be social pressure for men and women to act as their stereotypes, but I think it comes in part from actual differences.
- cma 17y agoI really doubt this is the case at the age of four. Before puberty, it is almost certainly all social differences.