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I was out shopping today and overheard two ladies (probably in their sixties) discussing some recent outing or other, and one asked the other if she'd seen the pictures on Facebook yet.
Why yes, this is the twenty-first century!
Y'know what I was thinking today? I've known for a little while now that I relate to men as if I myself were male. The merits of this tendency can be discussed elsewhere, but I think I should work on learning to relate to men as a woman. Which I don't think is the same thing as flirting, or being "girly", but behaving as the complement to the masculine mode of thinking/acting. At the very least, it might put some men at ease. I think it freaks some of them out that there are women who act like "one of the guys."
I'm not sure where to start, though. I don't think like most women. I'm way too much into facts and figures things. Feminine conversation seems to bubble and swirl, while masculine conversation has edges, and I like edges. So I usually end up sitting with the men. Though I know men - straight men - who prefer female conversation and usually end up sitting with the women. Go figure.
Hmm.
Why yes, this is the twenty-first century!
Y'know what I was thinking today? I've known for a little while now that I relate to men as if I myself were male. The merits of this tendency can be discussed elsewhere, but I think I should work on learning to relate to men as a woman. Which I don't think is the same thing as flirting, or being "girly", but behaving as the complement to the masculine mode of thinking/acting. At the very least, it might put some men at ease. I think it freaks some of them out that there are women who act like "one of the guys."
I'm not sure where to start, though. I don't think like most women. I'm way too much into facts and figures things. Feminine conversation seems to bubble and swirl, while masculine conversation has edges, and I like edges. So I usually end up sitting with the men. Though I know men - straight men - who prefer female conversation and usually end up sitting with the women. Go figure.
Hmm.