Desert Dubliner

When he was young he had a soft heart and hard d**k and now he is old and has a hard heart and soft d**k.

Desert Dubliner

The above is in fact a joke. I am actually with Tockalosh on this one.

Meow

Nonsense. You simply cannot generalise for the genders like that.

With all the ridiculous misogynistic (sorry Millhouse but it's the right word) guff that some of you spout on this forum I am not surprised that your wives wanted divorces.

scrubbedexpat141

Awfully nice of Mr Meow to let you have a computer and internet in the kitchen isn't it.

Tockalosh

absolute class Mr Scamp

Tockalosh

Been sussed, thank goodness for Viagra

Paracletus

http://news.discovery.com/human/wome...-behavior.html

It's not generalisation, its based on observation of human behaviour. To think that any of us should deviate from natural behaviour is a bit rich. Our instincts are deeply engrained, and chemicals and hormones do influence our behaviour. Or are you suggesting we throw out scientific research on human behaviour and consider all humans as entirely individual with no recurring behavioural patterns in the name of gender equality? Where would psychology and psychiatry be today if we didn't have at least a small understanding of how the human mind works, and what influences our decisions?

Sure, it doesn't mean 100% of people will behave in said way..but how would the world work if we couldn't predict or at least anticipate behavioural patterns?

al dente

Meow didn't say that the ovulation research was untrue, (BTW women, unconsciously, show more skin during that time too) she commented on the part of your post that stated that men are saviours and remain saviours throughout relationships. If we all want to go googling behavioural research we could comment on the incidence of domestic violence and abuse which is higher against women than men. But we wouldn't go looking for that, would we? That would be a gross generalisation and none of the boys on here are like that either?

Desert Dubliner

Right. This is solely because nagging isn't counted as domestic violence. Some poor guys suffer decades of nagging and denigration and then one day they snap, kick the bitch's ass and become a statistic.

Norm_uk

Actually it is a generalisation (and I agree with you in principle - but I feel we are only willing slaves to our instincts rather than unwitting victims - humans can override any natural behaviour they wish with will alone). The whole point is that on average and in general certain behaviours and traits are more common in one gender than in another. Individuals of both genders do vary widely - especially men (due to our testosterone-damaged brains apparently).

Without generalisations it's very hard to compare groups of almost anything; cultures, genders, ethnicities etc without some sort of basically true generalisation (most Japanese are shorter than most Germans for example). I see a trend in many people to avoid generalisations even when they are neutral and true - why that is would be another debate I feel.

I'm going to say women on average are not as tall or strong as men and tend to live longer. Am I now a misogynist? Most men don't have as good fine motor co-ordination as women - does this mean I hate men too

Perhaps it's the way generalisations are often presented is the issue here rather than the generalisations themselves.

N.

al dente

This is one of the worst posts I have seen on this forum.

Meow

I don't think it's worth my time trying to explain as some of you seem determind to cast yourselves as victims, take comments out of context and have no wish to understand realities.

Shame.

scrubbedexpat141

But I am the victim. She asked for it by nagging me so much. It's not my fault.

Meow

Are you Dennis Waterman?

scrubbedexpat141

Keep it my era Meow...