dlowan wrote:Eva - I know you're kidding - but I really dinna think egos have gender......
Yeah they do. Eva got me thinking about it today.
Both sexes tend (there are, of course, exceptions) to have egos that manifest themselves differently. And both sexes seem to only focus on the manefestations of the other to conclude that ego itself is the other sex's domain.
So a woman might characterize the male competitiveness in areas in which females don't tend to care about (random e.g. drinking the most) as egotistical while a male might construe the manifestations particular to females (random e.g. competitiveness in looks) as egotistical.
Ultimately I think it just comes down to "having an ego about a topic about which I do not care as much about" but it's expressed as being ego versus no ego.
When I was mulling it over while seeing how far from the urinal I could piss from I realized that there are a lot of these disconnects.
A person who considers himself polite might not think the contempt for those who he thinks is not polite is rude for example.
Got me thinking, seems like it's less about ego vs. no ego as it is about ego about different things.
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another one who thinks this is exercise!
