Anxiety said:

Yeah, I can feel where you're coming from.

It's a mixed bag at my gym. The older guys who seem to have been going there since they were born are a bit too comfortable for me. They'll start up conversations with me while I'm toweling off and feel the need to discuss anything and everything at the most awkward times, seemingly just to avoid silence. They have no modesty at all and stand around with eachother, balls out, full glory just shooting the shit and scratching their asses.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, many of the younger guys seem scared for their lives. They don't make eye contact, they don't talk, they hurry around as if any interaction might make them seem gay. It makes me nervous just being around them.

But what's strange is that the women's locker room at my gym has separate showers and a totally different layout than the men's. That kind of fucks with my preconceptions about the gender differences. I've always learned that women are more comfortable exchanging compliments, admiring eachother's looks, going to the bathroom together, etc. The one upside to the elders' male bonding as you call it is that it makes it seem okay for guys to just relax around eachother and not be so uptight.

GangstaFam said:

dude. women's restrooms oftentimes have COUCHES in there. little lounges. but then, i think women are more clean and considerate with public restroom spaces than men, so they get the perks. not that they're completely off the hook...i've heard some women's room horror stories that make what i see in the men's room look like tea time at crumpet house.

i know what you mean about the whole relaxed attitude among guys thing, and i really wish that was something i could appreciate and enjoy more than i do. i'd probably fall in with the uptight younger guys who rush in and rush out, just because i've never been used to communal situations where you stand around with your balls out and talk about taxes. that kind of thing i do with my boyfriend if anyone, and to me, using the bathroom and showering are things that aren't meant to be social activities. i didn't grow up in a big family and i didn't play sports in school, and so as a result i tend to have a stricter definition of personal space than a lot of guys do, and when they wanna stand around naked and talk about gross stuff, i have to get outta there. it's just how i'm wired, i'm afraid.

Oh man, I hate the UGG-factor in most blokes I know/Knew...you know what I mean, its starts at about 15 years old (maybe even earlier nowadays)when they start to brag that they snogged so and sop or they touched a pretty girls tits....most of its bullshit at that age anyway.

It gets worse with age - laddish drinking, strong aftershaves, letching!!!

Thats why I got into Prince - he was the opposite of all the guys I knew and was embarassed to know.

I hate that side of guys even more because it was the root of teh most unhappiest years of my life - being in an all boys school, if you dont have or want the Ugg factor then you must be gay...thats when teh ugg factor goes up a notch because people have to prove that they arent gay by kicking teh crap out of the people they thing are gay

Anxiety said:

Did you know that couches in women's restrooms came from the time when women wore corsets. Back in the day women would feel woozy all the time from these tight ass corsets that they would be taken to the women's restrooms to rest. The couches were called "fainting couches". Kind of like a chaise lounge. To make a SHORT story LONG. This was all man's fault. Women wore corsetts to look attractive to men. MISOGYNY

Traits I don't like about men are traits I don't like with people. They're all listed here and if its a woman or a man with ANY of these traits, they are no friend of mine. Selfishness makes me walk away in 2 seconds.

Locker room talk has always been more than bizarre to me. Its always the hairiest muthafucker who wants to talk about mundane bullshit while standing there buck nekid, why is that? I treat it like the urinal, don't fucking talk to me.

There was a thread about the "retrosexual code" called For str8ght guys. I basically summed up my dislike for men in that thread. If anyone wants to find it, try the search function.
http://www.prince.org/search/

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

that's interesting to find out...and it makes perfect sense. thanks for sharing that!

Anxiety said:

ANX, you can rely on me for USELESS pieces of information. I found out this weekend from my best friend that CALAMITY JANE, from the old west, got the name CALAMITY attached to her name because it meant SYPHILIS. Yuck. That's something most history books wont mention. I digress.....

Bad traits in men:

1. I don't like the mama's boys. They are, unfortunately, everywhere lately. I'm not your mother, and NO, I don't need to do your laundry, clean your shit up, and basically babysit you. (Unless of course, YOU'RE THE ONE making all the money and paying ALL the bills)

2. I'm not impressed with your insecurity problems. Those guys that buy BIG trucks, shave their heads, grow that ugly goatee crap on their chins, and overcompensate with the macho bullshit.

3. The men that say "I don't like slutty women", then ogle all the slutty women on TV, in magazines, etc. Hello??? Can we say contradiction?

4. The men who work on their outer appearance, getting all buff, but don't tend to their INNER appearance. Muscles are great, I suppose, but what about that muscle in your damn head, MORON?!!!

5. The men who refuse to see that some women are more intelligent than they are. In their minds, it simply CAN'T BE that a women is possibly smarter than them, only because of the difference in our genitalia?? It is NOT a given that you're smarter than I am simply because you happen to be a man.


I could go on and on, but these are the worst of the worst, and any woman should stay clear of these types.

gemini13 said:

gemini13 said:


huh? what?

Anxiety said:

Back it up boys. Back it up back it up.

Fauxie said: