Monday, December 11, 2006
norah vincent wrote in her book, self-made man:"every man's armor is borrowed and ten sizes too big, and beneath it, he's naked and insecure and hoping you wont see"
evidently, this is true to an extent. the societal pressure of having to be the one to make the first move, to take rejections and such it in "like a man", to be expected to know certain things. its no wonder why men hardly ask for directions. amalgamated with his ego is his rickety armour of an expected self. it is then no wonder sometimes men engage in what females perceive as empty blaster about themselves, to keep their bubbling insecurities under.
likewise, females too, struggle to keep up to the expectations of society. females engage in petty quarrels, bitching to mitigate their own insecurities of not being prettier, skinnier, hotter, richer, more fashionable, more clothes. is it not the insidious influence of media, and the so-called glamour that engenders such covetness. which has rendered so many girls stumped by their many "lack-ofs".
perhaps, we are mere victims of our society and environment.