What’s it like being a man?

Maybe nonsense , but it how we have to treat women now . It is their expectations

Going to the restroom without a support group is nice

There is a lot of anti-male bias in America.
Women tend to react and post with emotion, and men with reason.
We see that here when we a woman will post and a man will wonder "what's with" a person, they may be using emotion and we men will be using reason.
best wishes

I dunno... You're saying this in a forum where seoulsearch and cinder regularly do exactly the opposite.

Of course there's also Lanolin.

Maybe women are individuals and don't conform very well to stereotypes.

correct. God made so many variations of us all..

not a stereotype, it is how He created us.
https://www.healthguidance.org/entry/13971/1/emotions-differences-between-men-and-women.html

this has been shared in abundance here at CC for years and still seems to be a mystery to some.

You've never met cinder. She thinks more like a guy than I do.

But there are exceptions to every stereotype. Just because there are exceptions doesn't make the stereotype wrong. If the stereotype was wrong, it wouldn't exist. Right?

Actually, in this very forum, I wonder "what's with?" a lot more when a guy posts than when a girl posts. Seems to be a lot of emotional guys around here...

Ask Scotsmen about wrong stereotypes. They're always getting comments about nervous sheep.

Probably all mama's boys? Those mama's boys are all the same... Well, mostly the same, with a few exceptions. Much like Scotsmen. ;-)

Ah, I had thought that statement a more general observation.

Still, treating people with consideration and respect never goes out of style.

Are you saying most Scotsmen - not all, but most - DO have nervous sheep?

yes but sadly it not the respoect and consideration that is asked for,

I always treated girls i dated like Christ loved the church. doing whatver i could for them.

Opening doors. protecting them etc. but now they tell you that are quite capable of looking after them selves. so it is confusing

I'm all in favor of those people objecting to courtesy. It makes it really easy to determine which girls we really don't want to date.

Beggars cant be choosers so i jsut hope a nice one is interested

Hi Moses!

I know that sometimes your posts are of a more of a joking manner, and I wasn't sure if that was the case here (making a play on the contrast between the use of the words wrong and right,) so I hope it's ok if I go on a short tangent.

This might just be me, but I personally can't agree with believing that stereotypes must be right just because they exist, or that a stereotype holds as a majority fact with only a few exceptions.

I once worked at a place that was near the middle of an area with very high racial tensions.

The stereotype about the blacks were: "All black people are lazy and trying to scam the system, so never let a black person/family move into your neighborhood because they're all on drugs, are going to trash everything they touch, and will drag the whole area down."

The stereotype about the whites were: "All white people are evil supremacist overlords who are representatives of The Man. Their only goal is to hold you back, keep you down, and whenever possible, imprison or better yet, kill anyone who doesn't look or think like them."

Of course, there was also the stereotype that when it came to drugs, all the black people were on crack, and all the white people were on cocaine, because all white people in that area were seen as being "rich," and therefore able to afford the "higher class" drugs.

Are these things true of all people of these specific classifications? iI would certainly hope not, but I'm sure you can find areas where it might seem true of the majority.

But for myself, I can't put much stock in beliefs that are based on very specific concentrations of "truths" that people come to actually want to believe just because of their own experience or hearsay. The majority of people I met and worked with in that area did not fit those stereotypes, and I could never conclude that they were somehow "rare exceptions."

And I would also hope that this is true of stereotypes of any kind, including based on gender -- just because a lot of people believe something, it doesn't mean that it can be held as fact just because it's based on majority opinions.

I've met plenty of people, myself included, that could probably contribute to some falsified stereotypical beliefs, but I guess I've also been blessed enough to both be and meet so many "exceptions to the rules" that I fiercely oppose the idea of stereotypes being accepted as blanket facts.

*Seoulsearch politely pays for her own meal and her date's meal, then quietly heads to the Ladies's Room all on her own, no entourage needed.*

For all the guys who try to be polite to women who react by being just plain rude -- hold your head high, keep going, and keep being your polite self.

It may not seem like it, but there are still women out there who greatly appreciate old-fashioned chivalry and manners, and many of us are quick to compliment such actions.

Gender relations are tough for everyone nowadays.

Men running into women who claim to be Christian but want to use man as a personal ATM...

And women (or men) running into men (or women) who claim to be Christian but want to start groping them -- or more -- after the first date.

I always tell my married friends that I know that marriage is challenging but please, hang in there, because I assure you, there is nothing out here (in the single world.) Dating for everyone is a total Shark Tank.

But with God's help, we will prevail, together!