poll-y poll poll

[hooveraardvark]

Poll domestic or otherwise

Comments

[dyskodyke]

Re: the friends thing, I should probably note that irl it's roughly equal, but if we're counting ppl I only know here on LJ, there are many more females. I guess I never really know how to talk about/label online friendships, etc.?

Strange you bring it up, b/c I was thinking about the friend/gender thing just yesterday.

[hooveraardvark]

i've been thinking about it for a while. i think there are a lot more girls on lj (there are probably some stats about this somewhere), so that's not so strange. still, IRL i only have 2 or 3 male friends (not counting the boyfriend).

[dyskodyke]

I've only got like 5 guys on my f-list, and the rest (over 60) are girls. I've noticed I tend to cut guys often when I'm doing f-list cleaning, too. I think b/c we interact less? And I also think I trust girls more. Which hasn't always been the case. In my teens and early twenties I was mostly friends with guys.

IRL my closest friends are 3 guys (counting my husband) and 3 girls. Beyond that, everyone else is just kind of at varying levels of acquaintanceship. But I have trust issues and am very picky/intense about friends -- I don't really have the time/energy for more than a few, tho I do like being on friendly terms with lots of ppl.

I've been thinking about this b/c I've been thinking a ton about gender (roles) lately, and about how strongly (or not) I identify as female, etc. This may eventually turn into an entry/poll of my own.

[hooveraardvark]

yeah, i don't think i have more than 10 or 12 guys on my f-list (mostly due to lexi telling me to add them - before that i probably only had 3 or so). sometimes i wonder if it's a problem that i need to address . . . i definitely do end up trusting girls more, and i (GENERALIZATION AHEAD) tend to find them more interesting usually? i don't know. i am a pretty stereotypically girly person, though not in the "afraid of snakes/weepy negative stereotype" way. whenever a guy adds me here i wonder why, because if you take your average dude, i don't think he's gonna like my journal much.

off-topic

[swilkesse]

I got the comix today! And the sox are super cute. Thanx! (just using up my daily quota of x's)

Re: off-topic

[hooveraardvark]

sweet! i hope you like all the comics. i threw some random extra ones in that i thought you'd like. the first buddy comic is signed too!

[dressagegrrrl]

Ha ha ha ha! My least favorite euphemism for having sex was WAY out of line with everyone else's. Mine is probably tied to reading too much shitty fanfic. I also have to throw out there that I too hate "making love." It sounds so wishy washy and like it is only at home coming out of the mouth of a virginal, thirteen year old girl.

[dressagegrrrl]

Oh, and IRL - my friends are males. On LJ, I've got almost exclusively female friends. WHY IS THIS?

[hooveraardvark]

hey, i remember that euphemism from many bad books, so . . .

no one likes "making love."

i think there are way more females than males on lj, so that explains that.

[hooveraardvark]

a cat with it's face reattached? where?

[girliebacchanal]

I really liked this poll :)

[hooveraardvark]

thanks, i'm having a lot of fun reading the answers!