[freya]

OK just got a call from my boys that they are still about an hour from Syracuse and the roads are bad. So, I'm lookin' to entertain myself 'till probably about midnight and thought maybe we could start a fun and silly thread about issues of sex and gender...We don't always have to be serious, right???? Anyways, this is a copy of something I posted on another site once in response to the question of what makes me "the femme" and my partner "the butch."

She drives like the car is a totally natural and familiar extension of her body.....I drive like like I'm operating a dangerous machine and could make a terrible mistake at any minute...

....Her "spice" shelf consists of salt, pepper, and Montreal Steak Seasoning...my spice cabinet is 5'x10"x12" with 4 shelves so full that things are sometimes piled on top of each other...

...She can keep up just fine in any sports discussion with my 3 brothers.....unless the team under discussion is her very favorite or the very favorite of one of my sons, I almost always have to enter the conversation with "Are they a football team or a baseball team?" (....and "they'll" probably be some 3rd kind of team, I almost never guess right!)....

....She can identify with the male lead in straight romantic movies....I can't identify with either lead......

....She assumes I can read her mind......sometimes I actually act like I should be able to, too.....

.....If I ask her to bring me my mascara out of the bathroom, I have to describe "which one" (make-up item) that is.....she has pretty much given up trying to describe for me what tool she might like for me to bring her out of the basement (unless it's like a hammer or screwdriver or something totally common like that)....

....When I have an emotional problem, I talk to everyone who will listen....she talks to me, and usually only when it gets to the point where it's killing her....

....She says to me, when we are totally dressed up (read: her in a suit and tie and me in a little black dress and 4 inch heels) and coming home from a dinner date at a very nice restaurant: "Do you mind if we stop at Home Depot?".....I say to her when she'd rather watch a Broncos game than help me decorate for whatever holiday is happening this month: "But you just watched them last week!"

.....If she were to go to the video store without me, she might come back with "White Chicks"....if I were to go to the video store without her, I might come back with "Howard's End".....in either case, one of us would be watching a video alone!!!!

....I am totally aware of when I am flirting with someone or when someone is flirting with me....she in similar situations: Clueless.

....If she does laundry, she dries all the clothing on "High" for as long as it takes to get the thickest item dry.......I try to be the one to do the laundry!


freya