But more seriously; I'm with Helen. I'm not seeing this offering anything new. Of course the culture is changing, quickly, because of the massive alteration in child-rearing. We've had half a century, maybe, to adjust to this; it's a sudden change to what we did for millennia.
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My adult adopted daughter said the best advice I ever gave her was 'The good man is not the one who intuitively knows what you need from him, but the one who, when you tell him very clearly, wants to provide it for you.' (Disclaimer: Works both ways, must be reasonable)
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No good all this: But I was behaving this way. How could he not know that what I needed was for him to stop trying to fix the problem and just listen to it and give me a cuddle?
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Best advice I was ever given was when a (now ex) boyfriend was bothered by something, and one of our friends just turned to me and said "did you try asking what's wrong and how you can help?" - boom. Problem solved.
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It's amazing how much easier all my relationships - romantic/sexual, familial, platonic, even work ones - became once I made that approach universal. Comes back, again, to clarity and honesty of communication - with the iron-clad promise of zero judgement.
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To be honest, if I wanted to make the gender relations as bad as I possibly could, to really set the sexes at war with each other, I don't think I could cook up anything better than the current state of Gender Studies and its kowtowing before the blank slate.
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This is as true as anything that’s ever been said on twitter.
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