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Coworker was just saying to me, "You joined the locker room," referring that I'm in on their slightly more inappropriate work jokes.
I said, "That's how it's always been. I've always been one of the boys. As a general rule I don't understand women and their interests. My girlfriends; Just like me."
Then I backpedaled in my head in thought, 'Gosh that was awfully sexist of you.'
But it's true. The older women in my family seem to have two interests: Talking shit about people, and sewing/homemaking hobbies.
I like sewing but it's too easy for me.
Most of the females in my life seem to take great pleasure in gossiping and being in the middle of dramatics. Actually, moving to this rural community, the women I've met have been the least dramatic, mean and gossipy I've ever met. I'm also an outsider and they're probably not inclined to drag me into their personal lives unless I made the effort to be more personal.
So that's my experience with women: Hobbies I'm not extremely interested in, and meanness.
My best girlfriends have similar hobbies to mine (gaming, writing, art, fantasy in some capacity) or are at least not malicious (Because I've been good friends with people of whom I shouldn't be interested, by all accounts).
I have a hard time breaking down "I'm like this because" and "I'm friends with these people because" because I tend to fall onto gender stereotypes. I suppose I'm aware of the problem, at least.