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Originally Posted by Dixie
Thank you, My perspective? You're both right.
Personally, I've seen more people meet and form relationships at work than anywhere else. It makes sense. As Finstone points out, it's where people spend most of their days.
As to CP's post, indeed I have been inappropriately approached at work, and I'll concur that women don't have all the power.
As for masculinity, I think what you both perceive women wanting is correct, but only for your generation. (Yep, I'm assuming CP is GenX, and notice I typed perceive. That's important.) I like to put it in terms of movies. Every action-hero boomer movie stars a man, and women are just sex-interest supporting roles. In subsequent generations, action-hero movies also star women in the title role. Personally, I like when a man acknowledges there's more to my life than simply having a supporting role.
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im a millennial, I'm 37.
the world was built for the comfort of straight white men, thats what patriarchy is all about. and that is changing (thank god), but the people, both men and women, who bought into that system are not happy about it. yes, there are plenty of women, esp in the older generations, who have spent their whole lives as supporting cast, and they are fine with it. and more power to them, i dont care what they do with their lives. the only real issue is when these people come and try and tell us, that you can only be supporting cast. or there is only one way to live properly. or only one way to be happy etc. finstone being mad at me, i dont care. i do care that finstone wants to prevent others from being happy though.
i see you around here doing a lot of managing men's feelings. and i applaud you every time you dont. you dont have to deal with some random man on the internet's feelings. thats for him to deal with. and if he's unhappy about that, thats just living in the real world where not everyone is going to coddle your emotions everywhere you go. some of these men have been living this coddled existence there entire lives, and ho boy are the unhappy to find out the real world isnt like that anymore.