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notesinblue) wrote2006-07-20 04:26 pm
notesinblue) wrote2006-07-20 04:26 pm
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just like a man
i'm standing in Target with my mother and grandmother as they discuss hair dye. my mom turns to me, chiding, and comments that she's surprised i didn't say anything about her new hair color, after all, it's much lighter now. (i still don't really notice a difference.) i stare at her a moment, appraising, and say that i suppose it is indeed lighter and that i really don't notice things like that. she laughs and says, 'you're just like a man'. i respond, 'why thank you'. and she turns beet red. i think she actually forgot. again. my grandmother, for her part, failed to even register the conversation at all. as we were walking out my grandma asked me what i was getting my degree in. same thing i've been getting it in for the past five years, grandma.
i hope i take after my father as i age, and can actually remember important shit about the people i care about. the idea of being so stuck in my own head i can't remember basic shit about the ones i love makes my stomach do a little flip. does that make me more of a guy or just a better person? i tend to think it's the latter, but in my family i have to wonder if it's the former. the M women love to portray an exterior of deep caring while remaining, in actuality, comfortably oblivious and detached. the S men don't pretend to care when they don't. and when they seem interested they are. i blame social expectations and upbringing. i send out a tiny prayer to remain honest both about my detachment and my interest.
and because this quiz goes so well with my entry:
why am i not surprised...
i hope i take after my father as i age, and can actually remember important shit about the people i care about. the idea of being so stuck in my own head i can't remember basic shit about the ones i love makes my stomach do a little flip. does that make me more of a guy or just a better person? i tend to think it's the latter, but in my family i have to wonder if it's the former. the M women love to portray an exterior of deep caring while remaining, in actuality, comfortably oblivious and detached. the S men don't pretend to care when they don't. and when they seem interested they are. i blame social expectations and upbringing. i send out a tiny prayer to remain honest both about my detachment and my interest.
and because this quiz goes so well with my entry:
 | You scored as Male. Being mostly male, within your structures of thinking simply means that your reasoning powers are the way they are perceived in Western Culture higher than the one of the opposite sex. Psychoanalsis claims this to come at the price of creative expression - a rational thinker can not think out of the box it is claimed. Yet, many creative Minds were men.
Should you be MALE or FEMALE?* created with QuizFarm.com |
why am i not surprised...