Women have such different lives. It's things like this that make it so painfully obvious why single men are isolated and alone in modern society.
Women have such different lives. It's things like this that make it so painfully obvious why single men are isolated and alone in modern society.
The communal house scene in San Francisco isn't predominantly women.
on the other hand I've yet to meet a woman that punches holes in drywall when they're mad, I've had 2 male roommates that have
Bad male behavior is generally a bit more threatening and unpleasant to be around. But, I’ve also lived with good male friends, and with male strangers that ended up being great.
I mean, we didn’t twerk together. But it was fun to have a guy to plop down on the couch and watch play videogames, talk about Romans with, or whatever other male-coded quirkiness you want to pull up.
We often say “normalize <whatever>” to the point where it has become a bit of a trite phrase. But, there’s a lot of social pressure for men to be isolated. We should normalize living with your bros. It shouldn’t just be the wall-punchers that live together. (I mean, it isn’t).
>on the other hand I've yet to meet a woman that punches holes in drywall when they're mad, I've had 2 male roommates that have
This is basically my point. Adult women can live together, adult men cannot.
I'm a man, and had wonderful experiences with my many (mostly male) roommates, with only occasional hiccups. Saying adult men cannot live together seems pretty excessive.
they can but it's inherently riskier, especially with a woman involved
Could you expand on that a bit? You’re the second comment to say this is about ‘women’ and I don’t get it - what’s different? Whatever you think is ‘painfully obvious’ here is obviously not landing for me, can you spell it out?
>I missed coming home to postgame my bad dates with my roommates over a cup of tea.
For whatever reason, I think men are a lot less likely to engage in this kind of social behavior, even if they are roommates. They're also a lot less likely to engage in spontaneous dance parties or enjoy group hip hop twerking exercises. Basically, a lot of the benefits of having roommates that the author describes are experienced far less often by men with roommates
We just do it differently... "postgame work over several beers" is the norm in every house I've lived in, even when we didn't know each other well.
Perhaps experience varies, but I've never talked about specific dates in any detail with even my close male friends (let alone roommates)
Pretty much. And I'm not even remotely saying it's a good thing. This is one of a myriad reasons men objectively live shorter, less healthy, and lonelier lives. You can speculate a million more reasons as to why, but it's just the reality of life.