Societal Views On Your Lovelife…
You already know them, have seen them around you: the naturals. Ever since you’ve been a little boy, you’ve seen those guys with ‘mystical powers’ getting ALL the girls they wanted, seemingly without effort. You secretly envied them and yet, when playing Dr. Phil for your dumped ladyfriends from out of the friend zone, you disapproved of them. Meanwhile, THEY’RE getting all the action and you still can’t figure out why the ladies see THEM as men, and you as a…friend. WHY is it…that when a man has MANY options in his lovelife so that he can CHOOSE who he dates, that he is suddenly a ‘playboy’, a ‘ladiesman’, a ‘skirt chaser’? And WHY is it that a woman who’s doing the same is not a ‘playgirl’, but labeled as a whore or a slut?
It’s because of societal views on which roles men and women should play. It all starts with the modern day role of men, or rather: the lack of it. Because…
When Are Boys Being Men, And Men Being Boys?
For thousands of year humanity has had initiation rituals to mark the change from boy into MANhood and girl into WOMANhood, different ones for different cultures. …