Telephone Television Tell-a-Woman...still true?

[radepor]

I'm not sure the old rules apply anymore

I think I believe the women. I'm ready to accept the possibility that we are as loose-lipped as they are (or were), or worse.

I'm happy to say I'm as tight-lipped as I ever was and I always will be. I'm sorry to say I suspect loose-lipped men are probably equally as happy with themselves for reasons I can't fathom.

Personally, I think the 1970's concept of women's-lib has caught on; and one of it's awful side-effects is metrosexuals, or men I simply have trouble identifying as men (not physical attributes but mental and emotional ones).

Tell me a secret and it will remain one unless you tell someone else.

Women do talk more about things than men however.

That's just my experience.

 

[FurryFury]

Last night my husband and I were watching a show. The lead male actor told his wife he'd killed a man. My husband said, "No, don't tell her, you don't know that she can handle it or keep quiet about it."

I agreed but then asked if he would tell me.

"Yes," he said, "I know you could not only handle it, you'd take it to your grave."

Aww!

 

[Tyr51]

I have a very different experience. I have found men will talk more than women, provided they believe they have a sympathetic ear.

We're all people.
Some of us, as people, want to feel closer to other people or want to impress other people. Gender doesn't seem to play into it so much as the desire of someone to either want to express a situation of belonging or being interesting. I am certain that desire infects the best intentions of both genders.