I have been mostly hanging out with good friends old and new since I arrived in the sunny state of California and of mind...
As I'm here a little bit longer than most places I've been in I don't have this overwhelming urge to go forth and tourist. It of course helps that I have also been to San Francisco before and seen most of the required tourist attractions so there is none of that urgent pressure, to see and do. It's really nice to chill out, relax, drink excellent white wine and eat good food and chat and kick back. It's also pretty fabulous to be around people who know me well and I can just be myself with and generally not have to worry that I'm going to put my foot in it.
On another note I have also had some very interesting conversations with my friends. It would be fascinating to get a male view point on some of these thoughts and discussions.
I was watching a male comedian on t.v. while I was sitting in one of the rooms of one of the many cities that I have passed through. I can't remember his name but he was very funny and he discussed the fact that women have more nerve and cellular connections between the left(the logical/rational)side of the brain and the right(intuitive/emotional) side of the brain. His basic premise was that even though women might be on the whole more intuitive that ultimately the fact that we have more connections makes us more likely to be crazy bitches. Because we're not just making decisions based on logic.
This and some recent situations/predicaments got me thinking....are we really all that different. Ok historically I'd be the first to say that gender differences are many and varied and would argue several reasons why women are the dominant sex ;)but lately I'm not so certain that there is that many differences.
Not even getting into the nature vs. nurture factor, I'm almost getting to the point of believing that we're all just a group of individuals trying really hard to find ourselves in what was historically a heavily gendered biaised society that rapidly is becoming more integrated.
Men who cry and fall in love easily and want more than that quick sexual fix of a one night stand, women who are angry, proud, ambitious and confidently sexual. We just can't generalise anymore regardless of the fact that Western society still attempts to place us in sexual stereotypes at an incredibly young age. Girls in pink with dolls and boys in blue with trucks.
Why is being sensitive, emotional and romantic the domain of women whilst being ambitious, practical and sexually agressive the ownership of masculinity.(to name but a few stereo-typical gendered traits) I really believe/hope that we are moving rapidly away from these once fixed stereotypes of decades past in to something more homogenous.
It's just a shame that this slow but gradual homogenous progression happening in society on a personal level can't additionally be equalised in other areas like politics, religion and economics. It still amazes me that in this day and age men and women aren't earning equal pay for equal work, that men mostly dominate positions of power in upper management and politics.
Maybe when this happens I will cease to be an angry, sexist, powerful female...or in 'man words' just another nasty, psycho-bitch ;)
Now off I go shopping to relieve my tension....or maybe I'll find something better to relieve my tension.....hmmmm beer and football??
Next blog....I promise I will have got out and about and not been so lazy
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