Men and women have different ideas of what constitutes tidiness. I tend to think it's about things being clean, but my mum and girlfriend are more about how things look.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.
In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs.
Male nudity, full-frontal nudity, has always been considered a lot more taboo than female nudity. As far back as I can remember, there's been a double standard between men and women. I think it's time that men get equal time in terms of nudity.
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, 'Men are like this, women are like this.' Nobody was telling me, 'Don't get dirty, don't play in the mud, girls don't do that.'
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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