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For guys and clever women.... help
The Dread Pharaoh Roberts:
Ah, lovely. I'm sorry, what were we talking about?
blgarver:
One of my biggest pet peeves is hypocricy. Yeah I know we're all guilty of it to some degree, but it's the outright blatent hypocricy that gets on my nerves...
Also, when a chick overdramatizes everything...that really grinds my gears. I'm sort of involved (reluctantly) with this girl atm who's had a very rough life and it's caused a severe lack of confidence. So everything I say she takes personally. And I'm not one to pull punches, not out of malice, I just don't like to play stupid games and I say what I think even if people don't like it. So, I end up hurting her feelings a lot just for being honest, and it makes me feel like a jerk. I hate feeling guilty when all I'm trying to do is be a stand-up, honest guy who still holds a little sense of honor and duty about him.
I also hate when she tries to do something in the kitchen while I'm in there...I live in an apartment, so it's a kitchenette setup. Not enough room for 2 people. Annoys the hell outta me.
And she always cleans up after me. In my own apartment. That's another big peeve. It's my mess, I'll clean it up when I'm ready. Then it makes me feel bad because she's cleaning up after me like I'm a 5 year old. But I never ask her to or make it seem like I'm expecting her to...in fact I always throw a fit when she starts picking up my dinner plates and stuff. Drives me insane.
The Dread Pharaoh Roberts:
Yes, Blgarver, I remember being a bachelor, too...now I've gone from "It's my mess, dammit!" to being told "Clean up your mess, dammit!" and even better, I get to be the one saying "Clean your room!"
How times change.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: CarolM on July 12, 2007, 10:12:45 PM ---I think if neurovore says until someone can provide a viable alternative I'll assume the person writing is female. ie Fade a "SHE". Of course in the US I suppose there might be people who are not "he's" or "she's", but I haven't heard of them. Unless you are refering to hermaphrodites or people who have been sterilised?
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There are people who are physiologically neither; the only one I know who is out about it is Raphael Carter, author of the truly excellent novel The Fortunate Fall.
--- Quote ---Usually when there is a choice of two characteristics and only two, if the choice is not one of them it must by default be the other option.
Perhaps neurovore would like to confirm whether or not my logic is at fault.
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I reject the choice in the first place. In much the same way as when forms ask me for "race" or "ethnicity" I put down "African(ancient)".
If you must use a pronoun for me, I'm entirely happy with singular "they"; it was good enough for Shakespeare and Chaucer, and gender-inclusive "he" is a seventeenth-century notion tied up with some political positions I strongly disapprove of.
It matters a great deal to me that my biological gender not matter, so it's not out. I have been very pleased in the past with how close to 50/50 people's guesses have been.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: RMatthewWare on July 31, 2007, 03:20:53 PM ---If you think nudity means sex, then you haven't been in a relationship very long.
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Or given a lot of backrubs, or hung out with people who like being comfortable in hot tubs or who just generally don't have strong feelings about clothes one way or the other. Or indeed, like me, have strong feelings about clothes boiling down to "Gosh, I hate having to wear the silly things, but it's cold a lot of the year and pockets are nice."
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