Padriag
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ORIGINAL: FlamingRedhead Most vanilla men are too afraid to make a damn decision. I hate having the conversation, "Where do you want to eat?" I honestly don't care. I can find something edible on virtually any menu. If you're going to ask someone out, you should have a plan, no? That observation is something many men ought to sit up and pay attention too. Society is at a peculiar crossroads. In a more chauvanistic past gender roles were better defined, and that included expectations of what you were supposed to do when dating... who paid for what, who opened the door for whom, who called who first, who planned the date, etc. Then came some social upheaval called feminism (which is ironic because it advocated behavior in women that was the opposite of then popular ideas of what was feminine), which began deconstructing much of those social "rules" and expectations. Unfortunately, there was nothing put in its place... we were told to be equal... and then left to figure out what exactly that meant in practical everyday terms. Its had its impact on dating... many men are now less sure of what to do when dating, how to approach, how to plan a date, who pays for what, etc. and confusion has ensued. So now we have entire generations trying to figure what they're supposed to do, and what they ought to expect, when dating... with a lot of misunderstanding and miscommunication. My observation is that for men the choice to be assertive, take the lead, be a leader, mixed with some style and charm, is always the better option when dating, whether vanilla or a dominant man.
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Padriag A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel so that it may be very kind - Edmund Spencer
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