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Tuesday, August 7, 2007
In hot pursuit
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This Sunday over brunch my friend Enrique talked about a woman he had been friends with for a long time who ended up kissing him one day. The thing was, after the kiss, she imagined that they were immediately “together.”
“You pursued me,” she told him. But according to Enrique, their communication back and forth had been pretty mutual, and he mostly called her to ask her specific questions unrelated to their personal friendship. Plus, she kissed him! (Anyway, he wasn’t interested long term.)
Which leads me to my question that piggybacks on Diva’s “girly women” discussion last week. Are traditional gender roles still important in dating?
Women, do you pursue men, and if you don’t, what’s your reason (spiritual, emotional, traditional)?
Men, do you have a problem with women pursuing you, or would you rather be the pursuer? Do relationships have different results depending on who did the “hunting”?
And since we’re on the subject, we’d better come up with a definition—what defines pursuit of a man or woman? Is it a couple of phone calls? Do you have to ask for a date? Do you have to buy dinner?
