mv wrote:
I do believe that his statement was code for, "I'd like to get into your pants, should you be amenable."
Yeah, possibly. In any case, I think all the variations on "why aren't you attached?" are rather shallow and even insulting. It implies that, since outwardly you seem sufficiently attractive to have someone interested in you, there must therefore be something wrong with you if no one is. And what I'm
really asking is ... so what's wrong with you?
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Even when you read about social revolution in the 60s, the women at the forefront will now say, "Yeah, but we were still expected to fold our lives around what the *men* were doing."
It's a social dynamic that's very slooooooooooooowly dying.
Yep. You're absolutely right. At my stage of life, in my 60's, I find such attitudes terribly provincial and counter-productive. Not to mention childish and unsatisfying. I'd rather have a woman who's a strong individual in her own right, with a well-developed sense of herself. I find it frustrating and sad for a woman to define herself in terms of the men in her life.
23 Mar 2012, 11:58 am
