Gender myths, challenging the stereotype

[Doctor Evo]

It's true.

 

[Rodrigo90]

That if you watch Downtown Abbey you're either gay or an old woman!

 

[Hawkingbird]

It's true.

Let's put you up against this woman and see who wins.

 

[Doctor Evo]

*snip*

Let's put you up against this woman and see who wins.

I'm going to let you go back and re-read your original post. Go ahead. I'll wait.

 

[Hawkingbird]

I said "girl". You know what I mean, stop trying to be provocative.

 

[Doctor Evo]

I said "girl". You know what I mean, stop trying to be provocative.

You missed it. Imagine my shock.

That all boys are better at girls than sports.

I'm better at girls than sports.

What a mystery that was.

Anyways, one stereotype I've run into quite often is that women tend to have a lower pain tolerance than men. I have a feeling that it's ********.

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

What were some of the oddest things you've run across people thinking due to your gender.

I'm a guy. An older female new friend of the family said, "you wouldn't go see Les Mis, would you." I told her that I already saw it and also wrote a musical of my own. Then she said, "oh, of course you're allowed to watch it then." My younger sister was similarly surprised that I wanted to see it. Despite me being the one moving to NYC and always going to broadway musicals on stage whenever I can.

Myth 1 about guys - we can't see musicals and enjoy them apparently (?)

What other stereotypical views have you come across?

I just don't "get" musicals, never have and I suspect I never will. I love music and love films. But put the two together and I'm like, huh?

I suppose it's something along the lines of... well let's imagine a movie...
A big dramatic moment is building up, someone is about to unleash their sword/gun (whatever) against their opponent and just at that moment, they burst into song about how they are about to eviscerate said opponent.
At which point my brain goes, WTF?!? and I am pulled out of the moment.

But there you go, that's just me.

But I certainly don't fit many of the traditional male stereotypes.

I don't like watching hardly any sports, although I am keen on keeping fit.
I do enjoy cooking.
I do enjoy romantic films and have been known to "tear up" on occasion.
I have owned and worn a pink jumper.

However;

I very much enjoy playing video games on my PC
Am into comics, science fiction, science, astronomy
Do not like talking about my feelings

Does all that make me a half-man? t:

 

[chamber-music]

I have almost no intrest in cars. As a guy its a stereotype that we all foam at the mouth at nice but I couldn't care less.

I just like my car gets me from A to B. What color, brand, engine, horsepower, ect doesn't mean jack to me.

I'm also ambivalent towards action films.

Friends and people at work seem surprised that I, a man, cook my own food.

where do you work the 1950s?

j/k

 

[Anita18]

My fiance is the one who does laundry and makes the bed. I'm the one who goes to the gym to lift weights.

 

[knowsbleed]

You missed it. Imagine my shock.



What a mystery that was.

Anyways, one stereotype I've run into quite often is that women tend to have a lower pain tolerance than men. I have a feeling that it's ********.

I have no desire to go through the pain that a woman goes through during childbirth... no desire, at all. THAT is pain tolerance.

 

[The Guard]

I just don't "get" musicals, never have and I suspect I never will. I love music and love films. But put the two together and I'm like, huh?

Most people don't. I've found that most people who have never seen good, live theatre don't really like musicals until they do go and see one live, and understand the energy exchanged between the performers and the audience. Some people, it's just not their thing. Have you ever seen one live?

 

[Optimus_Prime_]

What were some of the oddest things you've run across people thinking due to your gender.

I'm a guy. An older female new friend of the family said, "you wouldn't go see Les Mis, would you." I told her that I already saw it and also wrote a musical of my own. Then she said, "oh, of course you're allowed to watch it then." My younger sister was similarly surprised that I wanted to see it. Despite me being the one moving to NYC and always going to broadway musicals on stage whenever I can.

Myth 1 about guys - we can't see musicals and enjoy them apparently (?)

What other stereotypical views have you come across?

Seth MacFarlane love musicals.

The South Park creators, those oh so very gay South Park creators excuse me straight South Park creators Matt and Trey love musicals.

Come to think of it even I like a handful of musicals. Ragtime, Fiddler on the Roof, Muppets, all that stuff is great.

What's really funny, is some things that are girly, like the color pink and skirts started out for men. Really masculine men.

Skirts were invented for guys. King Henry VIII's made pants popular because he liked showing off his package (that's not a joke) -- particularly when he enhanced it with his incredible codpiece. Before then pants were seen as something only peasants and plebeians wore, and were unfit for royalty or people of stature (That's not entirely true everywhere, but before Henry VIII, skirts were definitely more commonly worn by the more successful classes than pants).

 

[Erzengel]

I have changed a tire many a times, also jumpstarted a car. I've also seen like 30 shows on Broadway.

 

[Karem-Knight]

I've heard several, I honestly think we should live in an androgynous society .

 

[Erzengel]

Women also view porn and like sex....a lot.

 

[Anita18]

I have no desire to go through the pain that a woman goes through during childbirth... no desire, at all. THAT is pain tolerance.

I have no desire either. When the time comes, gimme the epidural STAT.

 

[Golgo-13]

A male orgasm is essential for successful reproduction, but why does a woman orgasm..?

 

[Doctor Evo]

A male orgasm is essential for successful reproduction, but why does a woman orgasm..?

Given the time, energy, stress and pain involved in reproduction for females, I'd say the simplest answer is incentive.

 

[The Question]

Guys don't wear dresses because we have a thing that would hang out.

Scotland.

Also transvestites.

 

[The Question]

Really, no traditional gender role or stereotype makes any sense. They only reason they ever seem to be real is because society conditions people to act as if they are. Certain kinds of behaviors are more common in women than they are men, or vice versa, because people are raised to behave that way, not anything inherent. In reality, everyone is just as capable of any kind of behavior or skill set as anyone else, they just need the proper stimulus and opportunities to set them on any particular path.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Anyways, one stereotype I've run into quite often is that women tend to have a lower pain tolerance than men. I have a feeling that it's ********.

That's straight up inaccurate.

 

[chamber-music]

Scotland.

It takes a brave scotsman to wear a kilt without underwear in the highlands during midge season.

 

[Figs]

Anyways, one stereotype I've run into quite often is that women tend to have a lower pain tolerance than men. I have a feeling that it's ********.

Where in the hell did you hear that?? I don't think that should be considered a stereotype since most people in my experience as well as reports say that women actually do have a higher pain tolerance than men.

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

Most people don't. I've found that most people who have never seen good, live theatre don't really like musicals until they do go and see one live, and understand the energy exchanged between the performers and the audience. Some people, it's just not their thing. Have you ever seen one live?

I've seen Shrek the Musical. Which I did enjoy. Does that count?

 

[Optimus_Prime_]

That's straight up inaccurate.

When I was [BLACKOUT]circumcised at 26[/BLACKOUT] I was told that was as close to a man could get to feeling the pain of child birth. I passed out from the pain it was so intense. It came back a few times too. I'd just see white and wake up on the floor.

Really, no traditional gender role or stereotype makes any sense. They only reason they ever seem to be real is because society conditions people to act as if they are. Certain kinds of behaviors are more common in women than they are men, or vice versa, because people are raised to behave that way, not anything inherent. In reality, everyone is just as capable of any kind of behavior or skill set as anyone else, they just need the proper stimulus and opportunities to set them on any particular path.

This is true. Most American notions of beauty and gender roles were once different, sometimes the opposite in other cultures and times. We sort of feminize or present fat people as weak and pitiful now, and that use to be a sign of success, prominence and masculinity.