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Date Posted: 21:17:47 09/09/03 Tue
Author: Jonathan (admin)
Subject: Re: Gender roles in viewing
In reply to: SYNTARSUS 's message, "Re: Gender roles in viewing" on 18:51:49 09/01/03 Mon

Men and women are both humans, we have considerably more in common than we have differences, people forget that.

I think we do have different tendencies, but any difference is exaggerated way beyond proportion by things like television and bad magazines, and many ideas about gender roles are simply made up, and additionally they are absurd. Also these characteristics can't be generalized, every individual is different, some men may have a "feminine" tendency that is stronger than that in some women, and vice-versa.

Men act tough and macho in (greatly) varying degrees because it is what is expected; many people simply don't understand that the Terminator was a fictitious machine, and that men are human beings. This includes women that men try to have relationships with. I think many men simply give up trying to resist acting this image because their environment won't allow it or makes it too difficult. Of course, the image of how men are expected to act comes from television, movies, and magazines, and occasionally other parts of the mainstream media. To me this theory explains why men's behaviors vary so greatly.

I think there is a tendency among some women to try to act tough, in a way that isn't even natural for men. Ironically they may simultaneously complain that men are too tough. To me it's very interesting. Unfortunately it seems like so many values are forgotten if you can't put a price tag on them; so now women are trying to be tough and competitive because they believe it will help them compete with men, though this is only valuable for making money. Unfortunately in many other, almost entirely forgotten parts of life it's only a hinderance, and makes them the same bumbling monstrosities that they criticize men for becoming.

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