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- From: weaver@jetsun.weitek.COM (Michael Gordon Weaver)
- Newsgroups: alt.romance
- Subject: Re: Ok, How Strong Should A WOMAN be???!!??
- Keywords: if you sleep on the floor, you can't fall out of bed...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.182524.3858@jetsun.weitek.COM>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:25:24 GMT
- References: <C0wp1F.Cyt@ce1test.eng.hou.compaq.com> <C128zv.Ey6@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <105808@netnews.upenn.edu>
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- In article <105808@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
- >In article <C128zv.Ey6@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> sedenome@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Banger) writes:
- >>I guess what it boils down to is that it's my opinion that men generally keep
- >>things bottled up and don't wear their hearts on their sleeves, and I believe
- >>that it's much more difficult to keep quiet about a problem than to complain
- >>about it.
- >
- >Really depends on the person. I, for one, have always found it *much*
- >easier and safer to keep quiet about personal pain and difficulty than to
- >do the very scary and vulnerable thing of talking about it to another
- >human being. This is changing, but slowly. Generalizations like yours are
- >for the birds.
- >
- I agree with Lauren. I don't think it is necessarily easier to hide your
- emotions, or to show them. It depends on the person and the situation.
- Generally, what is hard is whatever you are not used to doing. I am a
- heart-on-the-sleeve type, but still I find it hard to show my emotions
- in some situations, for instance saying 'I love you' for the first time.
-
- I tend to get involved with women who are my opposite: they hide their
- feelings inside their emotional armor, don't want to be pinned down or
- commit. I don't see this a strength or a weakness, but just a different
- way of being that is a little more isolated and self-sufficient. I don't
- think generalizations about men and women help much when about a third
- of the men and women defy the generalization. What is important is the
- way you are and the way whoever you are dealing with is.
-
- Peace,
- Michael.
-