2013年1月21日 星期一

Roles of Men and Women

Are you every baffled by the behavior of members of the opposite sex - or members of your own sex, if you often find yourself behaving differently from most of them? List traits of men or women that you find foreign or bewildering, such as that they do o do not want to talk about their feelings or that they can spend countless hours watching sports on television or shopping.


  • Disclaimer: the following "foreign and bewildering" traits are just general stereotypes of my understanding of men, and are not directed to any person.
  • The traits of men that I find foreign or bewildering:
    • Though most women are messy as well, most men are both messy and dirty (just so you know, there's a huge distinction between the words "messy" and "dirty"; "messy" is just when things are disorganized, while "dirty" is when things are not hygienic.) Also men tend to have a very strong degree of pride and arrogance regarding themselves, and when said pride is threatened or insulted, they react in a very strong and direct way (usually women would hide in a corner and wait till the right time to strike back). In Chinese there is a saying, "when embarrassed, one becomes angry", and I would say it fits better with men than with women, since men need to save face.
    • Women, compared to men, are gentler, and also expected to be gentler. However, because of this, women tend to react to insults and other offending statements in a more sly and evasive way. The result? A war between the minds: how to harm, embarrass, or humiliate others without resulting to obvious and physical retaliations. This is one trait of women I extremely dislike, as I am more like a man in regards as such; if I am unhappy with something, I say it out instead of bottling it in my heart and finding some "other" way to vent my anger and frustrations. Another trait of women that I do not particularly like is that they are emotional. This is one trait that I also find in myself, and I do not like it at all; I like to be in control of my emotions and keep my calm whenever possible. A specific part of "emotions" that I am not really fond of is when these emotions come to relationships. To put it bluntly, I sometimes find what typical women do stupid and ridiculous (for example, giving up everything they have for a guy who ended up abandoning them; I know this sounds ridiculous, but it's true and often happens). I don't know if I'm someone like that, since I haven't been in any relationship (which may be why I feel like this), but I know that I don't want to be like that at all.