29 Jan 2018, 2:24 pm
Kiryoku1428 wrote:
Miss_Skitty wrote:
As a kid I very much liked Lego and learning about bus and train routes and how buses and trains worked 
That reminds me as a kid how much I loved architecture. I obsessed over designing dream homes and properties, watched a Re/max real estate channel (it was all we had when my family moved and didn't have cable). I would get good at predicting how expensive a house and property with certain traits would be, including based on their location. Then I would design my own places, decide where they would be, and predict their price. Presented some of these to my parents to check my work
. This went on for years.Also for years I would design my high school and university programs. Sometimes based on the existing local high school's design (and I would pick my electives, etc.) other times I would create what I thought was the best curriculum. I started this in 4th grade. I didn't slow down until a year after I graduated college, but I still fantasize about better program options and pretend "what if" I went to so-and-so college and took this program, what electives would I take and when?
I also played with globes, atlases, and spreadsheets. I imagined myself and a group of friends all specializing in a different -ology. I would calculate and research the logistics in expeditions all over the world. I also created a narrative, deciding at what point in our lives we would go certain places, what adventures we had on the side of the job, and what our lives were like between expeditions. I calculated salaries, rent, and utilities. I'm not sure how old I was when I did this a lot, maybe 8-14? SOOOO much fun.
In retrospect, I wonder how I managed to spend almost all of my free time doing these things and no one said anything, lol.
This reminded me of the island I planned. It had a palace, estates, hospitals, mental hospitals, parks, and woods. I named it after my sister. In the palace there were waterways instead of corridors, so you got from room to room in a short version of a gondola. My plan included that I would live in the palace until I died, and then it would fill up with sand and become my mausoleum. Nothing odd there for an eight year old
My next invention when I was 9, was my design for a tea maker. It was a whole room where you puled levers until the hot water ended up with the teabags in a big well that doubled as the table. So you opened a trap door in the middle of the table, lowered your empty mug down it attached to a chain into a big tea cavern and then wound it back up full of tea
29 Jan 2018, 5:03 pm
kraftiekortie wrote:
If one is not interested in "specifically feminine" interests, it does not equate to that person being "unfeminine."
I don't find an interest Tolkien particularly "masculine." In fact, as a kid, I thought literature was something that "girls" liked.
And what is "masculine," or "unfeminine" about playing music?
Both men and women can have "gender-neutral" interests, too.
Come to think of it, most "interests" are probably "gender-neutral."
I don't find an interest Tolkien particularly "masculine." In fact, as a kid, I thought literature was something that "girls" liked.
And what is "masculine," or "unfeminine" about playing music?
Both men and women can have "gender-neutral" interests, too.
Come to think of it, most "interests" are probably "gender-neutral."
I agree with you. I know a man who is very interested in poetry and literature and, like you, even reads books that are mainly read by women. I don't think that certain genres of literature are gender specific.
In my early twenties, I enjoyed classic children's books like Treasure Island, Moonfleet, etc.
29 Jan 2018, 5:12 pm
^I loved Moodfleet 
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05 Mar 2018, 4:20 am
a thing I've noticed, and that frustrates me, is that there are comparatively few female audiophiles. this is an irony because women generally have better [keener] hearing than most men and in theory at least should be able to enjoy high-quality audio even more than most men can. 
05 Mar 2018, 8:08 am
auntblabby wrote:
a thing I've noticed, and that frustrates me, is that there are comparatively few female audiophiles. this is an irony because women generally have better [keener] hearing than most men and in theory at least should be able to enjoy high-quality audio even more than most men can.
It might be that women are the bigger audience and prefer the voice of a man reading over a female, I would. I did once read that men like to listen to higher voices, I think that's why techno stuff usually uses female voices, because they thing men are more likely to be the ones buying them.
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