Men Will Never Truly Understand A Day In The Life of Women. But Shouldn’t We Try?

[whathehell]

133. Interesting.

and as far as being "kinda harsh", I don't know how you were

with her, but on this board you're no more harsh than I am

and I know I'm "duly beloved" as well, lol.

So sad for this woman and interesting in that she's so

non-assertive in THIS area, but not in others....It reminds

me a bit of my older sister, who was always an ambitious "go getter"
in her career (She became a lawyer and is now a Superior Court Judge)
and though she's NO where near where this friend of yours seems to
be in terms of docility with men, she does put up with shit (she's had four husbands!)
from men that I would NEVER put up with -- not physical abuse, or anything,
but she's not "direct" or particularly "assertive" OUTSIDE of the courtroom, with anyone, really,
and certainly not with men she's dated...Despite her career focus and tenacity,
she seems to almost worship at the altar of the "alpha male", which I find
lame, to put it mildly...She was, for instance, quick to show all kinds of sympathy for her alpha male
son-in-law when he divorced my poor niece for the crime of having post-partum, and then bi-polar depression

She was so much more sympathetic to HIM than to her own kid (who has a direct, assertive personality
like me) that her daughter was furious and they actually didn't talk for a year....I was also furious with her
for that and all of us were "estranged" as it were, for about a year.

I, on the other hand, have always been very independent with men, but was never as "confident"
or "independent" career-wise, even though, truthfully, I was at least as talented and bright as she was.