I think you're from the same generation as me atm judging by your references etc. We grew up with more defined gender boundaries.. It looks to me that the generation sprouting up have different ideas about gender but its all a bit chaotic. I wonder if its contributing to feelings of anomie and depression. People appear to be having these existential Crises's all over the shop because, perhaps, they dont know who they are and what their roles are meant to be in society and the family.
I'm just eating my dinner but I'd like to say more on the subject if we are still chatting about it later. I'd also like to chat about womens roles being so multifacetted ..slag.wife.Mother,teacher,witch, angel..
. Lady.. Men opening doors for me makes me feel like a lady and I like that
I think men like feeling like Knights and Gentlemen sometimes too. Do you?
I havnt read this back.. my dinner smells lush so off for some ruby ta v much. If it reads like a load of bollocks just ignore the post.
I'm not sure about starting to have a pop at the younger generation, I'm not convinced there a great deal different to in general to any other generation, I could well be wrong but I'm judging purely on my own experience from contact mainly through work.
Manners are very important to me, I do try and be polite to everyone I deal with, I may not always be successful in that objective but it is an important factor even when dealing with confrontational situations.
I can identify with the world gentlemen and would be proud for someone to think of me that way, I do have a sense of the need to protect women, it feels hardwired but could just be learned behavior but it's there probably even more so as I've gotten older and more fatherly. However I'm also conscious that in todays world men are often treated with suspicion.
For example I see I women on the road side, car broken down, do I stop and help offer to help her, is she going to feel threatened by that, I'm feked if I know, its a judgment call at the time and even then I'd try not to get out of the car, maybe just stop and wind the window down a few inches and check they were OK.
I see a small child wandering alone down a main road, do I stop, fek off do I. I'd ring the OB if I was on my own, this has happened a few times in shopping centers or on holiday that I remember when the child has actually approached me and said they were lost. Everytime I've either found a women or Mrs atm to deal with the situation and ensured that I haven't even touched the child in any way even if they have been crying...its a sad world we live in when you can;t comfort a weeping child.
I'm not sating being a women doesn't have its issues, but I'm not in a position to comment what with me being a bloke and all that but it's not a bed of roses for men either. May be your right and society is confused about male and female roles, I definitely think there is some kind of lie we are supposed to buy into that there is no difference between the genders when there quite clearly is.
As I said vive la difference :D
And never suggest that just because you even slightly think your post may contain even the smallest bit of bollocks we should ignore it, I make a point of ensuring I post as much bollocks as possible, its very liberating
