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:: Thursday, December 29, 2011 ::

Gender equality or something like it

It always amuses/bemuses/causes chagrin to/exasperates me when people say that they are afraid that I'll get hurt in a relationship.

First, I'm trying very hard to mean no disrespect to the well-intentioned worry but there's nothing for it but "Duh". Every relationship will contain a modicum of emotional hurt unless its some freaky Stepford wives relationship between a man and his robot. Even then, I've known people to mourn the breakdown of their computers, so that might not be true either.

Second, I know people say this because they're worried about me personally getting hurt because they care for me foremost, but I wonder if they've ever considered the possibility that I might hurt someone?

Yes, maybe it's a gender thing, because I'm female and my emotional psyche is as sensitive and fragile as a litmus tissue paper so I'm more likely to experience negative feelings but... Don't men have feelings too?

I mean, I recognize what it must say about me if people are generally warning me not to hurt others, but am I really so easily overwrought and are the people I want to date really so devoid of feelings that, QED, it must be me who will be left crying at the [insert appropriate meeting place of lingering expectance]?

I think not. Chances are that we'll both hurt each other, though let's not dwell on the "who more?" part or else we'll never get out of here.

Summation thoughts: kinda unfair that guys don't get the benefit of sensitivity to their emotional welfare but I suppose they're (in general) not delicate roses who can't take a bit of frost or heat. Maybe they're more like dandelions?

:: And that's all she wrote 12:13 PM [+] ::
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