The Transience of ManhoodFollow

Nah, no silicone, those things are yucky.


Edited, May 4th 2012 8:23am by someproteinguy

Men compete as well, but men tend to compete outside of their social group while women compete inside their social group. So male competition tends to be more forceful and final since they generally don't have to makeup with the people they're competing with. Men conform for the sake of cooperation, maintaining the "man card" to reduce conflict within their social group and ensure unit cohesion when it's needed. Keep in mind I'm not talking about playing football with your buddies here, that's just practice for the real competition.

Women compete more within their own social circle, they tend to be less cohesive as a whole but have very tight but transient relationships with sections of their social circle. Women cooperate for the sake of conformity, supporting each other so everyone can have the same lifestyle.

Very different outlooks, both of which are geared to survival in traditional roles (male = hunter, female = homemaker). Neither is better than the other until you apply them to role specific tasks pre-modern civilization. We may no longer define these roles by gender as a general rule but it takes time for instincts to change and traditions to dissipate so I don't expect the generally applicable stereotypes to change for quite some time. Men will be subjects to their "Manhood" for many centuries to come and women will have to play politics with their friends for the foreseeable future.

Age, wisdom, social advances all temper this, which is partially why older women have fewer conflicts and older men have fewer friends and why everyone refers to high school when talking about drama in their lives. Maturity is really just our ability to override instinct and some people are better at it than others.

Perhaps, but then those groups are not the chosen social groups of those individuals (unless they happen to be friends outside of work) which puts them firmly in the "competing with outside parties" role. I personally find the opposite in my work environment, this is an office environment with about a 50/50 male/female split. The women do this, but the men tend to only communicate with or about each other in regards to getting sh*t done or avoiding an obstacle which admittedly CAN be another person but it's typically the same retards we complain about rather than being driven by the convenience of absence.

If I have a problem with a friend I tell him he's being an *******, I don't go to another friend and ***** about him to try and sway social favour. It's not a competition it's and observation and advisement.

Edited, May 4th 2012 12:36pm by Yodabunny

Fair enough. Agreed to disagree then .

Girly speak, if you ask me.

There are certain "types" of people who still engage in that sort of behavior after high school. It really depends on the individual. Hell, my friends in high school didn't even do that **** to each other, but I did observe it quite a bit in other circles.

Then again, maybe I've just watched too much TV and/or movies. I see that kind of **** all the time in mainstream TV and movies. Especially the whole "My man cheated on me! That *****, I'll kill her!" attitude. That's always infuriated me. Your man cheats on you, so you get mad at the other woman? That's just stupid. Maybe she didn't know about you? Get mad at HIM, he's the one who actually did something wrong.

Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.

You can't explain that!

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So here I am,
growing older all the time,
looking older all the time,
feeling younger in my mind.

I'm ready to say you are a douche now.

Whoever is absent? Sounds like women. I was going to make the same response to Lolgaxe, that guys pretty much rip on each other merely because an opportunity presents itself. However, I don't know many guys who bother trying to do it behind someone's back. All of my friends rip on each other face to face, because it's funnier when the victim is there.

Does your wife know you've been hanging out with a bunch of strange women?