Friday, 16 March 2007

The emotional sex?

Was out in the office of another client today, the weather pretty much reflecting my mood, hungover from medicinal residue, shifting moodily through my documents, and txting Geoff to report more or less exactly that, when I happened to notice the girl next to me trying to stifle distressed sobs into her mobile phone. Someone else who's mood was reflected exactly by the weather.

Overhearing key words and phrases, it wasn't long before I managed to ascertain that her boyfriend had broken up with her, and that he was a monumental jerk. "Get this right, the night before? He goes to me, 'I can see myself marrying you.' Chuh! *sob*"

Why do boys speak such CRAP if they don't mean it??

On the other hand-

I have been hearing increasingly hideous stories of girls cheating on boys, and doing all the deceitful things that popular culture has long stereotyped men as inflicting on women. Ladies, I'm so disappointed. Women rant and rave about how men are such assholes, but the startling number of emo males out there has made the male market wary and suspicious. Baggage in tow.

When I see my hurt male peers looking bewildered and generally damaged, it makes me feel angry and ashamed. It also makes me feel violent should I ever chance to meet the girl responsible in the street.

It's just not that hard to break up with one boy before you have sex with another!?

So why are women doing all the things that we lament in men??

And therein, the contemporary notion that women and men aren't that different is borne.

- 9:37 pm