An underrated dynamic in the gender wars is that not all conversational tactics are open to everybody. In particular, tactics men constantly use on each other, and laugh off, are seen as crushingly emasculating and humiliating when used by women on men.
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Hm, where can i find examples of such tactics and their use? This makes no sense to me.
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ten bonus points for emasculating as something negative toward women which seems paradoxical to a naive observer
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It’s a fine balancing act between being aware of differences and modulating behavior in response and essentializing the differences to draw ridiculously caricatured conclusions. Unfortunately most people who recognize the differences tend to exaggerate them into caricature.
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In Impro, Keith Johnstone wrote "acquaintances become friends when they agree to play status games together.” So in When Harry Met Sally, Harry is really saying men and women can’t play status games together
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Not underrated, I think, so much as a third rail. I've deleted at least five responses as "incomplete, and thus likely to attract ire without adding value".
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