Posting about fixing stuff in this thread has got me thinking about my compliance with traditional gender roles.
Compliance:
I love tools - especially power tools
Gadget freak - My favorite store is Best Buy
I’m an automobile fan - love to see the new models. This does not extend to an ability to fix them, though. It’s more an exterior thing (I’m so shallow…)
Conflict:
I cook & bake with relative success - I can make a pie from scratch.
Disinterested in most sports
I can needlepoint, cross-stitch, & crochet. My latest project was a new baby blanket for my new son.
Love baseball, American football, hockey… most mainstream American sports
Love action movies with high body counts and lots of explosions.
Play a mean air guitar (when no one’s looking) while playing heavy metal CDs.
Conflict:
Played most sports as a kid, and stunk to high heaven at all of them.
Have been known to cry during “Fiddler on the Roof.”
Do a lot more cooking and laundry than my wife. I’m a good enough cook that women at my office are constantly asking when I plan to bake something for them.
Complete tee-totaller. Not for moral or health reasons, but… I just hate the taste!
Haven’t been in a fight since I was in grammar school.
I love to cook and bake
I like girly drinks - any drink with little umbrellas is my friend
I’m patient with animals, small children, and unruly husbands
I look pretty good in a dress
I dissolve into tears at the mere thought of marital conflict. But I’m getting better, really!
Conflict:
I love computers
I love computer games
I love action movies with gore and violence
I don’t wear makeup
I don’t fuss with my hair
I like manly drinks. Give me a beer! (I just like DRINKS, lol!)
I’m the one who sets up the TV/Stereo/Network
I hate romance novels
I like sci-fi and fantasy novels
Well, you’ve made the point before that there’s all types of gay, just like there’s all types of straight. I think the question could apply - especially if you take a broader definition of “Gender” than stereotypical hetero male/female.
However, you can answer, or not answer, as you wish.
Compliance (I love your topic names!)
[li]I just complimented someone else besides myself[/li][li]I wax my eyebrows (among other things…arms, legs, etc.)[/li][li]I love clothes[/li][li]I believe in the credo there is no such thing as too many shoes[/li][li]I can watch “Dirty Dancing” many times without tiring[/li][li]I can’t program the VCR…yet[/li]
Conflict
[li]I love violent/horror themed books and movies[/li][li]I like gadgets (stereos, computers, etc.)[/li][li]I rarely if ever wear makeup[/li][li]Don’t paint my nails[/li][li]I too can go to the bathroom by myself[/li]I don’t want to have a baby and retire to the suburbs
Compliance:
I’m a great cook
Nurturing streak
I sew
I bellydance (almost, but not quite exclusively feminine)
I love dresses
I love shopping
I’ve trained my SO to open doors and carry things
I love girly drinks
Conflict:
I love my army pants and Docs
I’ve done fencing, and archery
Don’t wear makeup
Hate doing most housework
Love science fiction and fantasy
Compliance:
I wear makeup and jewelry on a regular basis
I like to shop sometimes
I often paint my nails
I like romance movies, even a lot of the bad ones
Am often the “peacekeeper”–helping solve arguments between people
Can sew and embroider
Conflict:
I love action movies
I won’t wear dresses often
I major in physics
I’m planning in working in highway engineering
When I speak, I say exactly what I mean, most of the time
Not good at cooking
I like power tools
Compliance:
Nurturing streak a mile wide (I have students who call me Mama for fun.)
I cry at the drop of a random friggin’ hat.
I get cold a lot.
I enjoy jewelry.
I would have a million watches, shoes, and purses if I hadn’t stopped myself cold turkey several years ago.
I’m a teacher who doesn’t coach (predominantly but not exclusively feminine).
I always feel bad for the “loser” in any athletic game (maybe not so much feminine, but compassionate).
I’m not crazy about crowds or noise.
I get embarrassed easily by people making asses out of themselves in public.
I’m not crazy about beer. I’d rather have a “lighter” drink.
I really really really like pink.
I worry about my skin and therefore use lots of moisturizers (I rarely see guys doing this).
Conflict:
I have an ego the size of Alaska (I have never considered anorexia, bulimia, or cutting as a possible outlet for my insecurities).
I don’t worry about my weight despite my big ass.
I don’t even notice my big ass.
I will often leave the house in shorts during the summer knowing full well that I could use a shave, but I don’t care.
Compliance:
I like cars
I like beer
I like shoot 'em up movies
I like gadgets
I like wrasslin
I LOVE most sports
I am the “computer guy” in my group of friends
I dress like crap
I bottle up my emotions
I eat poorly
Cooking means samwiches
conflict:
I cry every time I read or see “Of Mice and Men”
I often read “Of Mice and Men”
I like playing with the kids
I clean the toilet(mine)
I do dishes(machine)
dead0man
compliance–
I love to compete and playing any sport or game
I’m occasionally wrong but never in doubt
I don’t care about my appearance, whether my clothes match, whether I need a shave or a haircut, or whether I get dirty
I like rude jokes being a bit gross
I love women and find nearly all of you attractive
I like to take risks
I’m not very in touch with my feelings
conflict–
I enjoy talking with women more than men
I think any talk about cars is extremely boring
I hate Nascar, professional wrestling, golf
I get bored watching sports after a short while, only tuning in during the playoffs, finals, etc.
I like to cuddle
I love kids
Compliance
I love shopping
I love wearing girly things
I’m useless with power tools
I have no idea how electronic things work
I like cocktails and mixed drinks
I worry needlessly about my weight
Conflict
I can’t cook
I can’t clean
I’m aggressive
I like football
Farts interest me
Compliance:
I enjoy big, powerful cars
I love computers and gadgets
Mowing the lawn is fun
I don’t fold clothes or put them in drawer: My floor has a “clean pile” and a “dirty pile,” and often the two meet.
Conflict:
I am picky about my appearance - always clean, shaved, smell good, etc.
I like “girl music”
I detest sports
In general, groups of men annoy the hell out of me.
Compliance:
*I have a great interest in killing machines of all types. Weapons, torture devices, military vehicles, you name it.
*Gory, bloody war movies are great. Especially if it focuses on the ENEMIES getting their faces melted off.
*“Ronin” is one of my favorite movies.
*I can have trouble interpereting complex emotional motivations in others. (Maybe that’s just because I’m a nerd and have Asperger’s traits. )
*I have a full beard, that I hope to be able to grow to proper Viking levels.
*I can derive pleasure from the suffering of others-Oops! Sorry, that’s for the “Are you a supervillain?” thread.
Conflict:
*I like “Chick Flicks.” “Ever After” is one of my favorite movies.
*I can’t stand most martial arts movies (At least western made ones)
*Ditto for westerns and gritty crime movies
*I have an undying hatred for most organized sports
*I’ve been known to enjoy shopping–Just not clothes shopping.
*Visual media that focus on women in bikinis bore the HELL out of me.
*I can barely stand getting my hands dirty. Like when fixing cars.
*I hate sweating.
*Listening to a tape of show tunes and/or classical music while reading a dry historical or technical text is my idea of a fun evening.
*I’d like to think that I have a sentimental side.
I like to look good
I have long hair
I dislike violent, gory, or horror movies
I am a hopeless romantic
I care about other people’s troubles (nuture/burden bearing)
I currently work at a secretarial-style job
I like guys to open doors for me etc
I look forward to being pregnant
Conflict:
I don’t cook or sew very well or very much
I have the clean pile/dirty pile laundry thing going
I want to be a physicist
I love math
I read voraciously, including science fiction, fantasy, & mysteries
I wear jeans more than I wear a skirt
I’m ambivalent about raising children
I cook
I sew
I needlepoint, crochet, knit, etc.
I have a long, luxurious mane of hair
I am moody (sometimes)
I shave my legs and armpits
I like flowers
I pay the rent by working as a glorified secretary
Conflict:
I fly airplanes
I play bagpipes
I once won a caber toss at a highland games
I don’t wear makeup
I tell dirty jokes
I can’t stand “chick flicks”
Hate romance novels
Like action movies
I don’t worry about my wieght and I don’t diet
*I like computers/electronics/gadgets
*I like to fix things and I’m good with tools
*I look very masculine (beefy, broad shoulders, thick neck)
*I work out three times a week
*I love hard sci-fi and adventure novels
*I love the outdoors (camping/hiking)
*I can’t sew worth a damn
Conflict:
*I’m a bleeding-heart, flaming liberal
*I’m a total wimp. I have no self-confidence
*I’m laid-back and unaggressive. I rarely lose my temper
*I’m obsessed with my looks
*I hate sports
*I get along much better with women than with men
*I’m very neat and clean
*I enjoy cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, gardening, and shopping
*I like chick movies, and I’ve been known to cry while watching them
*I don’t care much for action movies, and I’m offended by graphic violence
*I think most porn is gross
*I’m very open about my feelings
*I desire love and commitment more than sex
Compliance:
-don’t mind doing laundry, and if doing laundry must fold immediately before it gets cold (whenever possible).
-cook
-embroider
-hate taking out the trash
-wuv animals
-read a lot
-own many shoes
-read romance novels
-not interested in football
Conflict:
-enjoy Jackie Chan movies
-hate clothes shopping with a fiery passion
-comfortable with most power tools
-read a lot of SF
-have never said “if you don’t know I’m not going to tell you” in response to question “what’s wrong?”
-never wear make up
-don’t shave my legs
-likes to know how things work
