Just when I'm wanting to be in a relationship
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Loktar
Pinata Whacker
Maybe I'll do it when I move back out and stop by for a visit. I'd rather not try it and be jobless AND homeless.
FBI parte due
Folces Weard
Steal her dresses for keeps and start sleeping in her bed.
Tell her you've "taken over" and start bossing everybody around.
Tell her you've "taken over" and start bossing everybody around.
Loktar
Pinata Whacker
Dr Dave
pillzlol
Loktar
Pinata Whacker
I don't go to chuch or church. Not in about 3 years anyway.
Donovan
beer, I want beer
Every woman is batshit crazy, they just keep the symptoms stored in different hiding places so they're harder to immediately spot. Men use the same exact technique to hide their action figures and porn collections.
In a general sense, I think a great many women are permanently damaged by media myths they buy into that never apply to real life:
Myth 1: a love story cannot be passionate unless you spend most of your time fighting and hating each other, then suddenly lock eyes for a super hot kiss. This myth comes from chick movies.
Myth 2: Women who become part of a domestic relationship automatically are the sensible, know-everything supermom, while the male counterpart immediately drops 50 iq points and becomes a lovable but clueless oaf. This is the "soap commercial" myth.
Myth 3: Every man is just ambling aimlessly through life wishing he could find a perfect woman to correct his dress, eating habits, hobbies, culture, grooming, etc. This probably also comes from movies but I suspect may be genetic.
Myth 4: Sex and the with-holding thereof are perfectly acceptable negotiating tools. Okay, this one is probably mostly our fault, because dammit it works. But it ain't right.
headvoid
Can I have Ops?
I accept that as much as I know you Tis, you probably don't subscribe to those points of view, and yes... they are a pile of misogynist crap.
However, it's like saying "I am not affected by advertising"
The stereotypes / preconceptions are THERE, shouting every day we pass a bus shelter, or watch an advert. Therefore we place ourselves mentally in some respect to them. Even if we reject them, by that simple act we are reacting to them in some way. There are a lot of "weak minded" or just plain tired people who can't be bothered to rebel against a set of ideals and take their pick from what is on offer.
My cynicism has reached fairly high levels recently...
However, it's like saying "I am not affected by advertising"
The stereotypes / preconceptions are THERE, shouting every day we pass a bus shelter, or watch an advert. Therefore we place ourselves mentally in some respect to them. Even if we reject them, by that simple act we are reacting to them in some way. There are a lot of "weak minded" or just plain tired people who can't be bothered to rebel against a set of ideals and take their pick from what is on offer.
My cynicism has reached fairly high levels recently...
headvoid
Can I have Ops?
Mmmm, yes, may have fallen into the trap of using a big word because it sounded cool. Damn...
There are, though, plenty of "little women" and the most recent "working mothers are more likely to be serial killers" storylines which tend to be doing the rounds recently.
I have a lot of fun poking at myths in my trade, and there are plenty directed at men (thinking with penis, unable to concentrate on more than one thing at a time etc.)
Anyway, I am considering blaming the 24 hour news cycle, as classic displacement from my own profession.