Thursday, January 24, 2008

So Cute! (Or Not.)

One of the biggest advantages, I think, girls have over guys is what I like to call the “So Cute” safety net. If a girl does something well, that’s great – she comes off a winner. If she does something badly, she always has the option, if skilled, to come off looking “So Cute”! Guys don’t have that. They can either pull something off or appear like a loser.

For example, karaoke. A girl who sings a karaoke song well is loved by everyone. So is a guy. But what if they fuck it up? How often have you seen a girl go on stage, rape a song, do a little hip dance and almost everyone in the audience thought that was just “Sooo Cute”! Quite often, I’ll bet, and probably more than that. Now when was the last time you saw a guy manage to do that? Never, right? Imagine a guy who messes his song up. There’s nothing he can do, except maybe find the back door and make as quiet and quick an exit as possible. Same thing with reality shows on T.V. Sanjaya Malakar was not “So Cute”, he was “So Gay”.

Or consider a party. A girl can go up to the guy she likes and botch her opening line up as much as she wants and chances are he’ll still think that was just “So Cute”. Or she could go up to him and ask him for a light, light her cigarette, take a puff and end up coughing – “So Cute”. If a guy did that, it’s plain gay.

Girls can cry while watching a movie or get scared of the dark, and get away with it because someone somewhere will think that’s just the cutest thing they ever saw. Girls who like driving fast are cool, girls who don’t are just being “cute”. Why aren’t guys allowed to get away with that?

You just can’t lose when you’re a girl, I tell you. Us guys have it tough all the way. We have no choice but to be the very best at what we do. There’s no “So Cute” net to catch us if we fall. Who wants voting rights! Bah!

16 comments:

Soul Less Curry said...

LOL!
It's actually true. But I think you shouldn't be cribbing, after all, it gets guys to show off their protective & chivalrous side to girls and score a lot of brownie points with them. ;)

I like Maddox a lot too, but good you don't look too influenced by his language. :D

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Angie said...

well im glad atleast some one agreed with the point tht girls can get away with anything they want!!! ;)

Firefoxcub said...

now if only we could turn the 'slut' into 'so cute', our plans will be complete!

FifthBeatle said...

angie - As was wisely pointed out by the comment below yours, girls can get away with almost anything. But yeah, that's still a pretty good life!

firefoxcub - Well, you got it tough there. Don't see how that is going to change in the near future. I remember seeing this comic titled "The Stud v/s Slut Paradox" which showed a graph of "Public Perception" on Y against "No. of Sexual Partners" on X. The curve for guys went up as X increased and for girls it went down.

Really makes a point now, doesn't it?

Firefoxcub said...

yep. it does. but how does it works for the gays, i wonder.

and to make this fair, i've called boys 'sluts' when/if they deserved it.

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FifthBeatle said...

Firefoxcub - Could it be that guys just normally want to sleep with as many people as possible while girls, in general, would rather just find one person they love and live happily ever after? Or is this an effect merely of the social perception of this matter?

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Firefoxcub said...

you know... someday i will write a proper essay on the topic but i think if you remove the scary variable of possible pregnancy, women are as likely to fuck around as guys. there is no real personal consequence to a guy spreading his seed like it's water.
theres also the concept that men are territorial and like to 'mark' what belongs to them or what they have taken. its about conquest.
and of course, society does dictate how genders behave. In India it would look like all us girls would just love to find that one guy and settle the fuck down. In the states, there's a gazilion girls impregnated by different men still running around being wild. I dunno. I think i lost track of the point.

FifthBeatle said...

firefoxcub - You made two important points...

1) Yes, there is that risk of pregnancy and that raises the cost of having sex for a woman. (This risk is considerably less in modern times obviously, but nevertheless its effects have been ingrained by now.) So that's one reason women have been over the ages less likely to indulge in rampant sexual activity. (It also explains, to an extent, why women are becoming more liberally sexually active in the past few decades -- the cost has gone down.)

2) In Western countries, women are having quite a lot of sex and with multiple partners. True. But also, the "social stigma" associated with a fucking around is a lot less. (Cause v/s Effect? Which direction, if at all?) eg. As I'd written somewhere before, in Iceland it's considered quite "normal" by society for even a teenage girl to be sexually active, with multiple partners maybe. Or for a single Mom to have children without ever getting married. So yes, the disparity between the pursuit of sex between the two sexes in more in India, but at the same time the attitude of society toward the pursuit of sex by the two sexes is more biased in India than in Western countries.

Anonymous said...

So Cute!! :-p

Anonymous said...

Awww, I think it's very cute when boys cry at the movies. Of course, I might just be a beard without knowing it. Hmmm.

Aparna Ganguly said...

LMAO ! Btw, I liked your blog description the best:"If you feel overly offended by anything, please feel free to sue yourself." So cute !

FifthBeatle said...

amrita - Yup, you might want to do another check on your friends' orientation! :P

aparna kar - Thanks... Needed in today's world, where "giving offence" is a crime. :)

TheExperimentalMom said...

you know this 'so cute' business cud get irritating at times when u break ur head open trying to make a point n the guy keeps finding it 'cute'!!! it is not as cute as it sounds really...

FifthBeatle said...

sparsh - Which side are you fighting on?