dgd1788 wrote:
yesplease wrote:
Women think like men do, more or less. I'd guess that most differences come from learned behaviors.
I agree more with Ahayes'
I think yesplease's assesment of learned gender behaviours is more accurate, because:
In North America and east Asia if two men display physical affection towards each other, regardless of the context, it's considered "faggy" and if a man cries he's a p*ssy, but it is considered socially acceptable for women to display physical affection towards one another and to cry. In North American and East Asian cultures it is also common to see heterosexual couples holding hands and kissing in public.
However, in the middle east as well as parts of Europe it is common to see men who are obviously straight kissing on the lips or holding hands in public and it is more socially acceptable, but it would be scandalous and disgusting to a middle easterner to see a man and a woman, a couple, kissing or holding hands in public.
Now, in my own experience, I've personally been told a lot of my behaviours seem "effeminate" or "faggy", and I attribute this to my closest friends in elementary and middle school having been female. That, of course, was bound to effect my future personality.
So it depends on the culture, and quite possibly in some weird way boils down to the environment in which the culture has settled, but I'm too tired to think of ways in which that might work.