Weird..usually, that's what happens when you're already dating someone.

Well that was subtle.

It isn't rare, your school is just small and your control group of subjects (objectively speaking, I just mean your friends..) is very small.
Depends on culture of where you live mostly, but as a guy I wouldn't brag about that sort of thing after it happens.

My implications are vast and ambiguous on purpose.

But in all honesty I think anyone who knows much about the world has at least five good reasons why this is the way it is.

Well up yours too buddy.




I think that thinking is a rather thoughtful activity for a vast array of reasons which I am choosing not to disclose at this time.

I'm not the only one who think's she's cute! The parody is good, though; I was more creeped out by the original song than by Overly Attached Girlfriend


In a way. Women have equal rights - the can do what men do if they want, but they don't have to. Steampunk is right in saying it mostly affects the law; not necessarily our culture stereotypes. Theoretically, women and men should have equal salaries when doing the same job - do they?

It's deeply rooted in our culture (and minds) that the guy asks the girl out. This isn't going to change any time soon - I know several girls who first asked out their boyfriends, but it's rare. I can't really help here because I'm not interested in men, but still... I'm not very likely to ask out a girl. It's obviously not about gender at this point, but my personality - I'm just too shy to do this. It's the same with shy guys who need a push from their friends to even consider approaching a girl they like.

If it helps, my mother asked my father out and that was 30 years ago

I think in most professions in first world countries they do, I'm no expert and I am certain there are cases of unequal pay but I think if there really was a widesprad difference in pay across many professions it would be in the media every single day considering most sixual harrassment cases make it to the news.

I honestly haven't heard of a case (or remembered) of the same workload being paid less based on gender.

I have a lot of news sources in my RSS feed, and it is much, much more common to see articles about the genders being more similar than our culture seems to indicate. It is becoming more common to see articles about women being smarter than men, graduating from college at a higher rate than men, etc. The gender gap, in all appearances, seems to be getting smaller and smaller. It just seems like all this information has yet to be absorbed by the public in general, not that anyone is intentionally uninformed about it, but you know

I think in most professions in first world countries they do, I'm no expert and I am certain there are cases of unequal pay but I think if there really was a widesprad difference in pay across many professions it would be in the media every single day considering most sixual harrassment cases make it to the news.

I honestly haven't heard of a case (or remembered) of the same workload being paid less based on gender.

I have a lot of news sources in my RSS feed, and it is much, much more common to see articles about the genders being more similar than our culture seems to indicate. It is becoming more common to see articles about women being smarter than men, graduating from college at a higher rate than men, etc. The gender gap, in all appearances, seems to be getting smaller and smaller. It just seems like all this information has yet to be absorbed by the public in general, not that anyone is intentionally uninformed about it, but you know

EDIT: AH! Double post! What the math?

Well actually before I made this topic I went a little deeper and asked a few more people same results.

I defintely agree that men asking out women is deep in our cultural and for that I blame the genric movies of a common men rescue women from something dangerous and evil then men ask out women and both of them have a happy ending.

A mathematic, apparently.

A girl has never personally asked me out, but several made in painfully obvious that they wanted me to ask them out. My wife didn't propose to me, I proposed to her, but she gave me so many signs and signals and made it obvious that she wanted me to propose to her, so I did.