Tuesday, June 04, 2002
It's all about them
No matter what they really think, whenever in a conversation I noticed most American women don’t answer truthfully, they answer what they think would make them the center of the attention or what would sound more impressive or intelligent that the rest of us. And if they can’t find anything of the kind then they deliver the typical “I don’t want to talk about it”. That also makes them look important and they get off easy of whatever they don’t know. Ops, just remembered, another good trick they love using? Dropping a line about something that sounds mysterious, like polygraph tests … and leaving it there for you to wonder how interesting persons they are. Never mind that the whole story about it is probably something that they have no real involvement with, something that happened to a friend’s wife’s neighbor’s second cousin … overseas, or something they saw on TV … as everybody else; they would make sure not to let you know that.
I also notice they behave different if men are present or not. There are 2 kinds of women when talking among other women: The ones that tend to agree with you and not give any extended opinion about anything. They also tend to act like they like you a lot and are on your side, like they share your point of view and opinions.
And the ones that are openly rude and don’t care showing the dark side: they don’t like you and when nobody that matters is present they don’t make any effort to hide it, and better, they make the point of showing it. These last ones are the worst, because when in the presence of people that matters, they are all charmed and laugh. They would go as far as pretending whatever conversation you may have with them alone … never happened.
America is a generous country. Feminists and most women claim to be treated equal. But they still want you to open the car’s door for them, expect you not to say dirty word on their presence or treat them as a precious crystal … and the law protects and encourages that. I think they should claim for “selective equality”, that would reflect much better their line of thoughts on the matter.
This is a generalization, I know. I’m looking at this topic from a cultural perspective. I’m sure there are American women out there that behave the same way all the time, without differentiate if they are around men or women, co-workers or bosses, and that understand the mean of the word “equal”. I just haven’t met any one of them yet.
No matter what they really think, whenever in a conversation I noticed most American women don’t answer truthfully, they answer what they think would make them the center of the attention or what would sound more impressive or intelligent that the rest of us. And if they can’t find anything of the kind then they deliver the typical “I don’t want to talk about it”. That also makes them look important and they get off easy of whatever they don’t know. Ops, just remembered, another good trick they love using? Dropping a line about something that sounds mysterious, like polygraph tests … and leaving it there for you to wonder how interesting persons they are. Never mind that the whole story about it is probably something that they have no real involvement with, something that happened to a friend’s wife’s neighbor’s second cousin … overseas, or something they saw on TV … as everybody else; they would make sure not to let you know that.
I also notice they behave different if men are present or not. There are 2 kinds of women when talking among other women: The ones that tend to agree with you and not give any extended opinion about anything. They also tend to act like they like you a lot and are on your side, like they share your point of view and opinions.
And the ones that are openly rude and don’t care showing the dark side: they don’t like you and when nobody that matters is present they don’t make any effort to hide it, and better, they make the point of showing it. These last ones are the worst, because when in the presence of people that matters, they are all charmed and laugh. They would go as far as pretending whatever conversation you may have with them alone … never happened.
America is a generous country. Feminists and most women claim to be treated equal. But they still want you to open the car’s door for them, expect you not to say dirty word on their presence or treat them as a precious crystal … and the law protects and encourages that. I think they should claim for “selective equality”, that would reflect much better their line of thoughts on the matter.
This is a generalization, I know. I’m looking at this topic from a cultural perspective. I’m sure there are American women out there that behave the same way all the time, without differentiate if they are around men or women, co-workers or bosses, and that understand the mean of the word “equal”. I just haven’t met any one of them yet.
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