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Shatbat
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16 Dec 2013, 11:41 pm

yellowtamarin wrote:
carturo222 wrote:
My parents used to insist that I greet other boys with a handshake and girls with a kiss on the cheek. I couldn't (and still can't) see why I should treat them differently. To this day I still insist on handshaking everyone.

Good! I hate being kissed on the cheek :x

Lol. You wouldn't like it around here then :P

I kiss women in the cheek when I am in a good mood. Otherwise I feel too awkward. It is social expectation though, I've noticed there is a certain tension when I fail to do so and give a handshake instead.

I'd say we're less prone to understand, and thus follow, social expectations from us. And social pressure helps shape gender roles. So all in all, we would tend to be truer to ourselves, whatever gender we are.


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17 Dec 2013, 10:41 am

Personally I don't care what role people want to play so long as they don't have an attitude about it, get on with it basically.