Friday, 14 November 2008

• Gender Roles in a Relationship

  One of my good friends from high school, Craig, told me about his adventures as a newly outed gay guy in college. He told me how hard it was to land a date because of one problem:

  Craig, my dear friend, is consistiently, hopelessly and mercilessly attracted to straight guys. It wasn't that he wanted to turn them into homosexuals. He said that it was more that he liked the manliness of them, the way they dress, the way they act. Craig said he was turned off by effeminate men--even though he admits he is one sometimes. Or maybe that's part of it.

  Craig's dilemma had me thinking about gender roles in a relationship. Some people say that a relationship should be between a man and a woman. And maybe there's some truth to that...but not in the way you think. Perhaps in each relationship someone has to fill the conventionally male role or the conventionally female role but it doesn't matter who fills which role.

  What do you think on gender roles in a relationship? Do you and your SO fill a specific role in your relationship?

   

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