This is the second time this week that I've written something to save Hsiang from writer's blog and certain blogdeath, which is good because we wouldn't want his blog to die again. His latest post in response to The fairer sex is completely borne on the male ego.
I'll concede that guys do keep things level and that their time outs are more useful than we'd dare admit, but they should learn to compartmentalize their lives. I haven't met a guy who could take a blow to the heart and still function. They get all mopey and "How do I breathe without her?" or "I'm nothing without her".
Their egos seem nothing more than souffles. Maybe they need romantic guy flicks, like chick flicks only featuring a guy who gets castrated in a break up, finds his balls again, reattaches them, and hooks up with his hot, faithful, loved-him-since-they-were-kids best friend. Yea, maybe.
On the other side, girls manage. It's about being able to lock all your emotions away temporarily to get on with your life and do what has to be done, like work, feed the dog, look after yourself. You see all those movies with women who haven't been out of bed for two weeks because their boyfriends have left them? Utter rubbish.
The most downtime we'll spend on a guy is maybe one night with a tub of icecream and a good movie, but then it's right back up and at the world again. It must makes us dig deeper, stiffens our resolve to be beautiful and have a good night out. Our natural reserves of stoicism and determination are what gets us through pregnancy dammit, so we're well equipped for everything else. We are lean mean fighting machines.
Note: I think this largely applies to the dumped. The pain of the dumper is only short lived, no matter how much you mean 'This is hurting me more than it's hurting you' (more lies). There's nothing worse than falling out of love later than your otherhalf, and definitely nothing worse than being rejected.
So drama drama. Hehe.
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