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- From: rbgorbet@kingcong.uwaterloo.ca (Rob Gorbet)
- Subject: Re: Preferred Gender
- Message-ID: <BxuEpI.Cy9@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
- Sender: news@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Nov16.163830.3164@msdhsv.ingr.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:20:05 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In article <1992Nov16.163830.3164@msdhsv.ingr.com>, foxx@foxxjac.b17a.ingr.com ("AJ") writes:
-
- > ...
- > A sub-point is that some families hug/touch a good bit and some
- > don't, so different people have different "known" experiences.
- > ...
- > IMHO, to most males, a massage by a
- > female can be analogized to similar contact in other (at least
- > theoretically) known situations, so some of the nervousness is
- > not present.
- > ...
-
- At the risk of sounding Freudian/Oedipan/Whatever-an...
-
- Might this lack of comfort and "at-ease-ness" some males experience around
- other males come from their family situation? I think it's safe to say that,
- in most North American families especially, girls grow up experiencing affection
- from both their Father and Mother. This is not true of most boys, whose Fathers,
- afflicted by the homophobia described in this thread, withold or even don't feel
- affection. The boys do receive affection from their Mothers, on the other hand.
-
- So it would seem more "normal", as AJ points out, to have female members of
- society invading the male private space than to have males do so. I, on the
- other hand, grew up in a family in which affection was never witheld, from my
- Father or my Mother. In fact, I am still very affectionate with my Father, and
- kiss and hug him (and tell him I love him and all that other gushy stuff) every
- time I see him. I'm 24.
-
- It would also seem that these household attitudes towards affection can affect a
- person's future social outlook: I have often been described by women as being
- "very open-minded, for a guy" and "emotionally driven, rather than fact-driven".
- And I have no problem receiving a massage from a male friend of mine.
-
- All this to say, I agree with AJ's post, and just thought I'd contribute...
-
- Rob Gorbet
- "Engineer without a .sig"
- --------------------------------------------------
- ...but I do have a quote!...
-
- The intensity of the initial infatuation between two people is not a measure of
- their love for each other, but rather a measure of their previous degree of
- loneliness.
- -Erich Fromm, The Art Of Loving...somthing to think about...
-