Male and Female Imponderables Part Deux
POSTED BY: Tristan
UPDATED: Monday, May 15, 2006 20:33
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RingofFire,
Welcome to the discussion! No one minds if you jump in at all. The more the merrier!
I am pretty sure you are aware of how this thread works, but just in case anyone else finds us and doesn't know:
We are a thread attempting to work out the differences between the sexes using a question and answer forum. No topic is taboo; anything you have ever wondered about you can ask, and either side will try to answer as best we can.
Peace and happiness through understanding!
Holding until you get back, Captain.
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Originally posted by Tristan:
RingofFire,
Welcome to the discussion! No one minds if you jump in at all. The more the merrier!
I am pretty sure you are aware of how this thread works, but just in case anyone else finds us and doesn't know:
We are a thread attempting to work out the differences between the sexes using a question and answer forum. No topic is taboo; anything you have ever wondered about you can ask, and either side will try to answer as best we can.
Peace and happiness through understanding!
Holding until you get back, Captain.
Thanks, Tristan, for the welcome!
Im not sure its possible to work out the differences between the sexes. In alot of ways its really the differences that I like. I really LIKE that men are stronger - at least physically - than women and I LIKE that they they have different emotional levels. Otherwise we would all be the same and things would be kinda gender-LESS. Is this out in left field? Maybe Im too conventional, but I like comfort (and sex) and protection from a man. I dont require that a man know why I feel blue (unless he really wants to know) - all he has to do is recognise that I do and act accordingly. If I want understanding and empathy I go moan to my girlfriends coz there's no work involved in explaining to them how I feel...they already just know. This is not a put-down on men, I just like the difference they bring to a give situation.
If someone tries to kill you, you try and kill them right back.
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Well, ok...maybe we won't figure each other out, but it is fun trying! If anyone can hash out problems, it's a shiny group of Browncoats!
Holding until you get back, Captain.
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Originally posted by Tristan:
Well, ok...maybe we won't figure each other out, but it is fun trying! If anyone can hash out problems, it's a shiny group of Browncoats!
Holding until you get back, Captain.
You are so right - its the trying to figure it out that IS the fun part!
Could be bumpy.
Always is.
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We probably will never fully understand the opposite sex, but a some amount of understanding is good, I think. I've already learned a lot! 
Hrmmmm, I don't have any questions right now. Maybe I'm all out. Maybe it's just because my brainpan is sleep-logged.
Anyone have any?
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I am pretty sure we have all learned a lot...I have, too!
I have a question for all involved on the whole issue of jealousy. I guess it's a question of security...how much "control" do you put on your partner's activities in regards to social contact? For example, are you comfortable with your significant other having friends of the opposite sex? Are you ok with them going out on the town with them without you?
Holding until you get back, Captain.
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Well, I guess I don't put much control on my wife at all. The biggest share of her friends are male. For some reason, most of her female friends turn their friendship into a competition. I don't mind her male friends. I know all of them and they know what kind of person I can be. Plus, I have complete trust in my wife (not to say that you guys don't). She also has to go out of town for her teacher workshops. I don't get to pick the people she goes with so there is usually both sexes. Overall, I don't have any jealousy or control problems in those instances.
Simon: What if he(Mal) tells you to kill me?
Zoe: (without hesitation) I kill you.
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My last boyfriend had several friends of the opposite sex. I was fine with it because, you know, he had chosen to be with me. Of course he would make new friends, and sometimes I would get a flash of jealousy when he talked about them; one in particular. But I never minded if he went out without me (we lived in differnt cities, it would have been hard for him to do anything if I minded!) though I didn't really like him going out with just one of his female friends (one in particular) without me. But I don't think I was unjustified in that; for all I know she's the real reason he broke up with me.
Anyway, I guess as long as there's not a lot of over-the-top sexual tension, I really can't mind, can I? I try not to be jealous because it really annoys me to be in a relationship with a jealous person. At least, an unjustifiably jealous person; like, someone who is jealous of all my friends because they're convinced I have some hidden attraction for everyone. If they're jealous of someone I am attracted to, I can't overly fault them for that, I just have to reassure them that they're not gonna lose me over whoever it is. I think that's important too. Little things like a kiss when you get home, or being home when you said you'd be, or whatever you prefer to do, can really soothe most kinds of jealously unless it's completely irrational jealous-for-the-sake-of-being-jealous jealousy, in which case you're in a bad situation.
Oh man, I hope that made sense. I really need to get some sleep right about now.
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One summer.
One mission.
One legion of Browncoats.
Starting June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
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