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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The Best Man
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Britney’s back. Is it that her sanity has returned or insanity is hidden better? Whatever, she looks hot and that’s all people seem to care about. Her first song, Womanizer declares: You got me going - You’re oh so charming - But I can’t do it - You womanizer. No surprise it’s Chuck Bass’ knew theme song on Gossip Girl.
Beyonce is back too with If I Were a Boy: If I were a boy I think I could understand - How it feels to love a girl - I swear I’d be a better man: I’d listen to her - Cause I know how it hurts - When you lose the one you wanted.
Disclaimer: Ok, I know that these are just songs, but they also highlight dating/relationship themes that actually exist in the real world - in that whole art imitates life way - or whatever. Just play along, ok?
If men could be women, and women could be men while retaining the essence of our respective genders, do you think we would do a better job with our relationships?
Could women be better men because we would have that missing trait that men supposedly lack: empathy? Would we not be womanizers, sticking and moving on the dating scene?
Would men be the uber female who could separate their emotions and make rational decisions about love? (Of course these are all stereotypes, which is kind of the point, here) How could you be a better dater if you were the opposite sex?
Not to go all Pollyanna/Rodney King on you but, can’t we all just get along? We highlight the differences that we have in a battle of the sexes all the time. I think that we should actually be embracing them, while cutting each other a little slack.
We don’t know what it’s like to be men. Never have, never will. Men certainly don’t know what it’s really like to be women. Isn’t that the way it should be? Well, assuming you don’t go the gender reassignment route.
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