Treating members of the other gender differently?

[Esper]

Seravee said
I totally get catering the lesson to individuals. But my professor was spouting nonsense like "boys like sports, so assign them lessons with sports examples. Girls prefer to learn about other females, do let them spend a lot of time on the suffrage movement."

-cringe-

That's fucked up yo.

[PaladinFoster]

ImportantNobody said If you expect me to be a macho man I'll certainly let you down. I wonder if it's low testosterone or what, although I'm not worried or wish I was different.

Don't try to rationalize it with biochemistry, you are who you are.

Edit: Also on the "gaming is mostly a guy thing", not only is that stereotype getting increasingly false, it pretty much already is completely false. Roughly 47% of gamers are female. I suspect though that a majority of them don't advertise their gender because the gaming community is incredibly hostile to women for some reason.

[andromedene]

PaladinFoster said
Don't try to rationalize it with biochemistry, you are who you are.

It totally could have to do with genetics, as well as environment, don't be a dick.

[K-97]

Gender is so easy to change I don't see much of a point attaching stereotypes and treating people differently.

Also I want to make a distinction:

Sex - Biological reproductive makeup

Gender - The sex you identify with regardless of biology

[PaladinFoster]

ImANargleHunter said
It totally could have to do with genetics, as well as environment, don't be a dick.

How is telling him to be happy with who he is and not worry about the reasons behind it dickish?

[Turtlicious]

So majestic.

e: Huh, this thread isn't being terrible.

GJ Team.

[Hank]

Strangers get the same treatment from me, male or female, but if I want to put my dick in a woman, of course I'm going to act different towards her. And in ways I'd never treat a man, naturally.

Reading this post it feels like I phrased it awkwardly but I don't know how to improve my wording.

[Turtlicious]

ImportantNobody said
Another odd thing that made me think on this subject was that one study said that 0% of males in the study felt like the woman should propose to the male and almost all women likewise agreed. I personally had no issue with it in the slightest is a woman proposed so I thought it odd that I'd be in the 0% of men who felt that way.

Source your facts.

[andromedene]

PaladinFoster said
How is telling him to be happy with who he is and not worry about the reasons behind it dickish?

He wasn't concerned, and it kinda looke like you were invalidating his opinion in favour of your own.

[Turtlicious]

PaladinFoster said
How is telling him to be happy with who he is and not worry about the reasons behind it dickish?

Because the way you put it made it sound like you were saying, "Well to be fair, you CHOSE to be that way."

[PaladinFoster]

I guess I'm just bad at saying things.

[ImportantNobody]

Turtlicious said
Source your facts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3FHdFMDM-g

On a second watch through I noticed that more specifically they said 0% didn't want to be proposed to by a women, but there were a bit more that said men "should" but not definitely. At least I think that's what they meant by this.

PaladinFoster said
I guess I'm just bad at saying things.

Don't worry. No harm done.

[Turtlicious]

ImportantNobody said
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3FHdFMDM-gOn a second watch through I noticed that more specifically they said 0% didn't want to be proposed to by a women, but there were a bit more that said men "should" but not definitely. At least I think that's what they meant by this.Don't worry. No harm done.

Their sample size was unreasonably small, their not scientists, it wasn't a study done in like... A professional environment.

Do you have an actual source?

e: And they didn't even source their own study. wtf.

[ImportantNobody]

It's mainly that it's highly traditional that men propose to women and not the other way around, at the very least in the US. I don't know of any large scale scientific researching saying stating this, but I've rarely seen anything to the contrary of this tradition.

[The Nexerus]

Gender is a component of the various aspects I calculate in determining my perception of an individual.

[Turtlicious]

ImportantNobody said
It's mainly that it's highly traditional that men propose to women and not the other way around, at the very least in the US. I don't know of any large scale scientific researching saying stating this, but I've rarely seen anything to the contrary of this tradition.

The issue isn't with your beliefs, it's using an untrue claim to try and push them as fact.

That's all.

[The Nexerus]

K-97 said Sex - Biological reproductive makeup
Gender - The sex you identify with regardless of biology

I'm going to be completely honest and say that I am never going to agree with this assessment.

[NotAMouse]

Bitches ain't shit...

[Kill Bones]

Taaj said
Bitches ain't shit...

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[Tempest]

I will admit, I treat the genders a little differently.

I tend to ah, give the 'fairer sex' a bit of the whole... gentleman treatment. I'll hold open doors, pull out chairs, offer help where I can, so forth. Mind you, I also have the habit of watching eye candy, so... fair trade? Idk, I just was raised to be polite and the boys of the family, well, those were the sorta values instilled in them. Don't hit women, treat them well, hold open the door, etc etc.

But I'll hold open a door for a guy too if he needs it, I'll help older men where I can. *shrugs* I might punch them in the arms sometimes and stuff, but, well, ya. More of a 'one of the guys' thing than treating girls or guys differently. If a girl was in that group, I'd punch her arm too, of course... usually gets turned to an ass slap?

The biggest thing I do notice different is... Well, I want to sleep with girls, duh, so I'll treat them a little more politely cuz, hey, points for that ; P But I'll talk with men and women much the same way. I'll flirt with guys, sure, but its more just being a tease more than anything. *shrugs*

Otherwise? I don't really treat them differently. So, yeah.