Something that has been plaguing me a lot lately is the great women and men divide – I’m from Venus, and he’s from Mars and all that. I have spent a lot more time lately attempting to understand the workings of the male mind. After spending so much time digging through the mess of my analytical brain, and attempting to truly figure out what makes the male mind tick, I think I can come to one conclusion. Ladies, pay attention to this one because it may come useful for the future. Men are human beings. Shocker! I know. They are insecure, they’re dumb, smart, emotional, fragile and everything that you have ever been. I can’t help but think sometimes that women love to put men into a different singular category, because it helps them to deal with the fact that they are afraid of being vulnerable. For example, if “all men” do something then it wasn’t a human being with thoughts, feeling and emotions that just completely writed you off, it was “all men.” So to women everywhere, wake up to yourself, stop using this stupid categorizing system and get on with it!
SIDENOTE: I apologize for the content of this blog, I am aware that, bar a few terrible puns, I may as well be Sarah Jessica Parker right now – this was just something I had to get off my chest.
Yes, yes, yes! Human relations could be so much better if everyone understood this.
ReplyDeleteI tend to think that, whether it is women thinking of men as being fundamentally different, or men thinking of women as being fundamentally different, they do it because they would like to contain certain unfortunate elements of human nature to only half of the population (whether it's their half or the other half). For instance, I think many men are in some way ashamed of their sexuality, and so they would like to believe that this "problem" of sexuality is only present in half the population (their half). They're trying to narrow the field of their anxiety. So they start disbelieving that a woman could have the same level of sexual desire as they do. It makes them feel better.
Or, from the other side, I think a lot of women are ashamed of the vulnerability of humans, and so, to make themselves feel better, they pretend that only women are afflicted with this problem, and that men are not really vulnerable like they are. Again, they're trying to make something uncomfortable seem not as widespread as it really is.
Yes! Exactly, it's simply neurotic human beings attempting to hide their vulnerability with a defensive labeling system.
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