Anonymous A started this discussion 1 month ago#135,136
Great book called “Self-Made Man,” where she dressed up as and passed as a guy for 18 months.
Ditto for the stereotype about men monopolizing conversations. Like Sasha, many of my dates—even the more passive ones—did most of the talking. I listened to them talk literally for hours about the most minute, mind-numbing details of their personal lives; men they were still in love with, men they had divorced, roommates and coworkers they hated, childhoods they were loath to remember, yet somehow found the energy to recount ad nauseam. Listening to them was like undergoing a slow frontal lobotomy. I sat there stunned by the social ineptitude of people to whom it never seemed to occur that no one, much less a first date, would have any interest in enduring this ordeal.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 5 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,436,377
Guess I'm a basic bitch because that stuff doesn't bother me. Slice of life has more value than conversations about statistics or theory or whatever in my world - life's too short to be about 'making progress.'
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 1 month ago, 6 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,436,472
It’s helpful when women over share. You can jump on topics for follow up. Or you can do emotional validation. “That’s an interesting perspective.” “That really must have hurt your feelings.”