How guys and girls are different

[jeanvieve]

So many places this boiled down conversation happens. Work, home, everywhere. Why is it chicks are more community minded, and guys more competitively minded? Why do I ask rhetorical questions?

Girl A: Why is life so hard? Wah!
Girl B: What do you need? How can I help?
Girl A: Uh.. thanks. Can you do X?
Girl B: How about X.1?
Girl A: I love you.

Guy A: Why is life so hard? Wah!
Guy B: Sucks man. Just sucks.
Guy A: You know it.


Guy: Why is life so hard? Wah!
Girl: How can I help? Let me make a few things easier for you.
Guy: *suspiciously* What are you doing? Why are you doing that?
Girl: You said life was hard, and you sounded upset...
Guy: YOU'RE TRYING TO RUN MY LIFE! BACK OFF BITCH!
Girl: *primly* Suck it, you bastard. I'm going to Disneyland.
Guy: ....without me?

Comments

Deborah Tannen

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

https://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/tannend/
Like you didn't know that. But your dialog's right on.

Re: Deborah Tannen

[jeanvieve.livejournal.com]

Oo, interesting. But for me kind of instinctive. Hee hee. I learned how to manipulate my mother conversationally when I was, oh, 12ish.

[seussgirl27.livejournal.com]

I really wish I had peed before I read that. It's ok though I have a GF that will ask how she can help and offer me a bathroom and a guy friend who will say, "sucks man, you should have peed first!"

[balutakat.livejournal.com]

Why do you ask rhetorical questions? 'Cause they make this long-suffering community-minded girlie laugh out loud while she's hammering herself with ridiculous unpaid internships.

[otteringabout.livejournal.com]

Me, too! How lovely that you helpfully posted that for me.

Or...wait, am I supposed to be suspicious and wonder why you're trying to run my life?!

Ah, screw it. I need to storm the jakes...