Gender again It seems that there are two groups of people here (judging from discussions "which gender you prefer" etc.):People who are more open with same-sex partners.People who are more open with o

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Gender again

It seems that there are two groups of people here (judging from discussions "which gender you prefer" etc.):

People who are more open with same-sex partners.

People who are more open with opposite-sex partners.

Personally, the set of things I can share/discuss with people of my gender is an exact subset of what I can share/discuss with the opposite gender. A romantic partner is the extreme (we can share romantic feelings - something I can't share with anyone else).

But there are some things I just wouldn't share with same-sex freinds, and they won't do this either.

Of course in a segregated society it is impossible to be this way. When men watch football and girls watch telenovelas - a girl and a boy can't discuss football and can't discuss telenovelas.

In sociology there are terms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosociality

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosociality

and

bisociality

Comments · 12

Здравствуйте! Это интересная точка зрения, и, возможно, было бы полезно поделиться своим опытом: я - 16-летняя девушка, и большинство моих друзей - мальчики. Однако в школе ровно три студентки, и все трое из нас - девушки. У нас воспитатель и воспитательница, и для начала это было очень неловко для воспитателя, потому что мы, девушки, были настолько открыты и говорили обо всем, к чему он не привык. Теперь мы все привыкли друг к другу, но есть еще темы, о которых будем говорить только с воспитательницей (такие как: совете по отношениям и общих повседневных проблемах) и другие темы, о которых мы склонны говорить с воспитателем (философии, интересных статьях по психологии, книгах, которые мы недавно прочитали). Так что, действительно, есть еще отдельные темы для разговора!

Gender is a psychological construct, namely a set of traits one associates with biological sex of an individual. Where biological sex itself has more than just the two standard variants, gender is expected to be at least that many or more. I just don't let it get in the way and can talk of anything with anyone. Since I don't get into emotional stuff, it is easy enough to stick to objective facts, even on the so called taboo topics.

There really do seem to be a lot of gender questions lately! And most of them seem to imply that men and women are completely different types of humans who act and react in completely different ways to everything. I enjoyed all your comments in Florian's recent discussion on the subject. Of course there are biological differences between men and women, but social factors tend to exaggerate the differences a lot.

I'm curious, though, why you say that the things you can talk about with the same gender is a subset of the things you can talk about with the opposite gender. Why do you think you can talk about more things with the opposite gender? (I'm curious because I imagine that most people have the opposite experience.)

You mean me or Drasvi, Florian?

It is a bit strange that you can talk more with the opposite gender. I know a lot of men who avoid such conversations and exchange of ideas. It is because there is already a preconceived concept that men and women are too different. Great topic btw :-)

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