I much prefer people saying the honest thing than playing yes-man. I tend to develop conversational relationships with people who have interestingly contrasted viewpoints and opinions.
A predilection for silk would be womanly. Wanting pink everything would be girly. Ignoring everything to go play video games would be boyish. Building a deck from scratch without help would be manly.
Why am I using girly vs. manly? Because that's the phrasing I usually hear. No, it's not based in equality, but the system in whose overbearing presence I'm operating isn't really comfortable with the idea of equality and would like to make it go away into some easily categorized hierarchy.
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regna
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Date: 2008-06-27 03:16 pm (UTC)A predilection for silk would be womanly.
Wanting pink everything would be girly.
Ignoring everything to go play video games would be boyish.
Building a deck from scratch without help would be manly.
Why am I using girly vs. manly? Because that's the phrasing I usually hear. No, it's not based in equality, but the system in whose overbearing presence I'm operating isn't really comfortable with the idea of equality and would like to make it go away into some easily categorized hierarchy.