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anyway, on my way back home from ditching my night class, i got to thinking about some things my mom told me about my aunt and uncle. the four of them sat around, catching up, chit chatting, and yakking on and on about another aunt, circling the subject over and over again, and my mom commented on how my uncle gossiped freely on the topic without regard, whereas had my father been in the picture, he would be the no-nonsense, no-gossipmongering kind of guy who wouldnt be interested in empty talks. in fact, what my father WOULD have done would have been to shake his head in shame (of uncle behaving somewhat femininistic and of worthless topics) and walk out. this is perhaps, why, my father doesnt quite like my aunt and uncle -- and i am sure the feelings are mutual. or perhaps not, but my father is quite the scary, authoritative figure. i remember as a child and even throughout teenhood, my friends have always been quite cautious whenever he was around, and a really noisy room would become quiet when he walks by or through the room. the fact of the matter is that it isnt that he is scary -- it is that he is very confident and stern looking. my father was raised to be very gentlemanly with very traditional views of how the world should work, each mannerism ought to be a machochistic (if not more) as the next. and the more i think about this, the more i realize how unbelievably similar my current boyfriend is to my father. now, whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, i cant quite decide yet.
there are some very disturbing things about dating the man who is quite like your father that i cannot seem to acquiesce to. while i traditionally hate men who are chauvinistic and i DONT think that all women should do a man's bidding (such as clearly displayed by most machochistic men), there is a certain attractive quality about the brazenness and barbarism that a macho-man have that could potentially attract strong women, such as yours truly, to these men, such as the one i am constantly surrounded by. which reminds me of a conversation i had tonight with my friend in iceland:
Bryn: vikings are barbaric
Fasha: there is certainly quality that was portrayed in those [romance] novels i used to read as a growing teen, that attracted me to them tho ..
Bryn: isnt your boyfriend half-viking?
Fasha: yes, he is quite barbaric.. if he could do what cavemen did to cavewomen, he would drag me by the hair and toss me into bed in a second..
it might be because i was raised in such an environment that promotes honest-to-goodness traditional values and roles, but i have my own reasons for liking 'barbarism', so to speak, in my men.
although, after tasting a certain metrosexuality that my ex-boyfriend displayed, i cant deny the fact that i rather like having a boyfriend who liked doing things that i liked (albeit, at times it scared me shitless, knowing that my boyfriend had better taste in clothing that i did!) and to draw out the striking analogy, while my current boyfriend could have been my father, my ex boyfriend could have been my uncle -- sensitive, vain, urban, chic, modern men, who believe that a good closet is as good a mannerism as you can get. if you have ever been so lucky as to experience both types of men, you will understand the dilemma i face in trying to decide which kind i like better =) not comparing or anything like that, i must say, both experiences have been unique.
enough rumbling for now. tonight was a night filled with networking. and networked i did, with top CIOs and COOs from the event last night. leave me a message or two about which kinds of men you would prefer dating: the macho or the metrosexual.