In one of the festive gathering recently, one of my good friend out of the bloom said "I am glad this is all ladies get together, we don't have to speak intelligently". I was taken back for a moment and thought of contradicting her, but smiled it away. What's this notion about when men get together - they converse intelligently. This is not the first time I am hearing this, I have heard flavors of it from a range of age groups.
Are stock market, work politics, football, political opinions signs of intelligence? as opposed to kids school issues, in-law troubles, low carb high protein recipes. My grand mother knows all this intelligent shi*, because she reads the news paper from top left hand corner of the first page to the right hand bottom corner of the last page. I think all this hype is trained into your blood/genes from generations - if you are guy you cannot talk or think about family issues, recipes, kids hws, shopping list etc.,
I bet y'all can tell I am in a feministic mood today :))
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Pliss Pliss Pliss woman, tell me that you stood by your sisterhood in this moment of crisis and told the silly person ( notice I choose to use the word person and not woman) that unitelligent garbage is not an acceptable form of conversation between humans...tell me you asked her to seek the company of centipedes instead!!!
Actually, I think you misinterpreted the whole thing. I guess that your friend meant that there would not be guys around in all ladies' night. so she would not have to speak intelligently to impress the guys. In a way, it is a compliment for your group. Your friend just wants to be herself in your group. Well, that is my perspective about her comment.:-)
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