Gender Divide...Splitting up into same-sex groups (wife, boyfriend, women)
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My husband and I aren't used to splitting-up into same-sex groups at parties or get-togethers and it always takes us by surprise when we are faced with this type of a situation...When we visit family or most of our friends...all of the men and women sit together and talk...Men don't congregate together in groups to talk...and women don't go off by themselves to chat...minus the guys. How do things go in your groups or family gatherings?
My partner and I are joined at the hip so if he goes to talk to the guys, I have to follow. He's stronger than I am, so whatever he does, goes.
No, we actually don't go to parties, but when we did, I think groups were mostly mixed. I don't really remember a gender divide past school days. We'd all be squished against opposite walls to get as far away from the opposite gender as possible, leaving this huuuuuge empty space in the middle. Such......fun.
Gah! You hit on the one thing that drives me insane about my boyfriend's friends. It's worse than a junior high dance, with guys on one side of the room, gals on the other. At least at a junior high dance, everyone is in the same room. These folks segregate into different floors of the house! Guys downstairs watching UFA, gals upstairs watching a movie. What is the point? At dinner gatherings, all the men talk, and the women just sit there, silent, perhaps laughing at a joke now and then.
I'm used to much more mingling, with people "working the room," or, at dinner parties, seated man-woman-man-woman with couples split apart. (Yes, I know. Just call me Letitia Baldridge.)
Some people and couples live in a more androgenous type of world and culture where men and women realize that they have a good amount in common...Couples who split-up into same-sex groups haven't seemed to reach this point yet...They prefer to be with their "own kind" most of all and often play out the "battle of the sexes" at least in secret...They rely on stereotypes such as "all men are babies" or "watch out...she'll take you to the cleaners" etc...Their primary bond and loyalty is with their own gender...versus moving to more of a middle and androgenous position as a "person first" and a man or woman second. Have you noticed any of this?
My husband and I aren't used to splitting-up into same-sex groups at parties or get-togethers and it always takes us by surprise when we are faced with this type of a situation...When we visit family or most of our friends...all of the men and women sit together and talk...Men don't congregate together in groups to talk...and women don't go off by themselves to chat...minus the guys. How do things go in your groups or family gatherings?
Interesting! I have never run into this. Usually at the gatherings I go to everyone sits around a table or in the same room and have a group chat. The only time I have experienced the same-sex grouping was at an Egyptian wedding and that was mostly because the older ladies in the families were in purdah
I (F) sit in the room with the men and exchange "wtf" sneers everytime we hear the chickens cackle in the distance. Its really funny way to predict who is going to get divorced next.
My husband and I aren't used to splitting-up into same-sex groups at parties or get-togethers and it always takes us by surprise when we are faced with this type of a situation...When we visit family or most of our friends...all of the men and women sit together and talk...Men don't congregate together in groups to talk...and women don't go off by themselves to chat...minus the guys. How do things go in your groups or family gatherings?
Guys over here, ladies over there. That is the way it has always been. The women don't care about our stuff and we don't care about theirs!
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