Just shut up, already!
Me: “I’m used to feeling abnormal.”
Male friend: “In what way do you feel abnormal?”
Me: “Too bookish… not ladylike enough… not focused on climbing the corporate ladder… don’t care about making piles of money… won’t have sex before marriage…”
Male friend: “What do you mean, ‘not ladylike enough’? You certainly don’t look very much like a man.”
Me: “It’s got to do with being gentle and demure; the traditional definition, you know.”
Male friend: “How many gentle and demure girls are there left in this world? If you find any, show me, and I’ll be there in an instant!”
Me: (thinking) “Thank you for rubbing salt in the wound!”
Talk about insensitive males…
aAND he was obviously trying to boost your flagging spirit too. Psh. Men.
Comment by sneexe — April 3, 2006 @ 11:15 am
you’d think that being around heaps of women who don’t fit into the ‘demure doormat’ definition would clue some men into the flaws behind social construction of gender, but nooooooooooooo.
Comment by Lainie — April 10, 2006 @ 2:16 pm