Trust. Well, the lack thereof. Generally speaking, we (men) do not believe things when they're told to us by women. Well, women other than our mothers or teachers or any other woman who happens to be an established authority figure. Do we think women are pathological liars? No. But, does it generally take longer for us to believe something if a woman tells it to us than it would if a man told us the exact same thing? Definitely!
When the concept of trust is brought up, it's usually framed in the context of actions; of what we think a person is capable of doing. If you trust someone, it means you trust them not to cheat. Or steal. Or lie. Or smother you in your sleep. By this measure, I definitely trust my wife. I trust the shit out of her. I also trust her opinions about important things. I trusted that she'd make a great wife, and a trust that she'll be a great mother. And I trust that her manicotti won't kill me.
I'm speaking of my own relationship, but I know I'm not alone. The theme that women's feelings aren't really to be trusted by men drives (an estimated) 72.81 percent of the sitcoms we watch, 31.2 percent of the books we read, and 98.9 percent of the conversations men have with other men about the women in their lives. Basically, women are crazy, and we are not. Although many women seem to be very annoyed by it, it's generally depicted as one of those cute and innocuous differences between the sexes.
And perhaps it would be, if it were limited to feelings about the dishes or taking out the garbage. But, this distrust can be pervasive, spreading to a general skepticism about the truthfulness of their own accounts of their own experiences. If women's feelings aren't really to be trusted, then naturally their recollections of certain things that have happened to them aren't really to be trusted either.
So how do we remedy this? And can it even be remedied? I don't know. This distrust of women's feelings is so ingrained, so commonplace that I'm not even sure we (men) realize it exists. I can do one thing, though. The next time my wife tells me how upset she is about something I'm not sure she should be that upset about, trust her. After five months of marriage, eight months of being engaged, and another year of whatever the hell we were doing before we got engaged, it's the least I can do.
Not unlike women eighty years later who disguised themselves as men to serve in the armies of the Civil War, women of the Revolutionary Era also itched to get into the fight, do their part for the cause, and be engaged in a historical moment. One of the best examples of a woman who disguised herself as a man to fight in the Continental Army was Deborah Sampson from Uxbridge, Massachusetts. Amazingly, she also has a paper trail concerning her combat service in the army, where she fought under the alias of Robert Shurtliff, the name of her deceased brother, in the light infantry company of the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment. She mustered into service in the spring of 1782 and saw action in Westchester County, New York just north of the City of New York where she was wounded in her thigh and forehead. Not wanting her identity to be revealed during medical care she permitted physicians to treat her head wound and then slipped out of the field hospital unnoticed, where she extracted one of the bullets from her thigh with a penknife and sewing needle. The other bullet was lodged too deep and her leg never fully healed. Her identity was finally revealed during the summer of 1783 when she contracted a fever while on duty in Philadelphia. The physician who treated her kept her secret and cared for her. After the Treaty of Paris, she was given an honorable discharge from the army by Henry Knox. Like other veterans of the Continental Army, she was continually petitioning the state and federal government for her service pension. She later married and had three children settling down in Sharon, Massachusetts. To help make ends meet she often gave public lectures about her wartime service. By the time she died in 1827, she was collecting minimal pensions for her service from Massachusetts and the federal government. In her memory a statue stands today outside the public library, in Sharon, honoring her Revolutionary War service and sacrifices.
You have to really take the time to sit with yourself and identify the qualities and values that you want in a woman. Determine what the deal breakers are and what are not. This will help you become conscious of your relationships and help you spot out red flags.
Some women are not to be trusted. Some men are not to be trusted. The #MeToo movement has pluses and minuses. My biggest wish is that more women acknowledged female-on-male rape and its relative prevalence. Thanks Apollonia for reminding us that many women acknowledge that sometimes men have good reason not to trust women, but that this can be worked through.
Crumbly and warm, scones are a British staple often enjoyed with clotted cream and strawberry jam during afternoon tea. One British woman loves the fluffy, round baked goods so much that she spent the last ten years traveling around England, Wales and Northern Ireland to sample hundreds of them.
As reporters at Broadly, we're regularly degraded by men on the internet for being too critical, or not nice enough. We hear often that we're single losers and that we need to be raped or have sex with men and then we'll be better. I don't think of any of my colleagues as being gentle or soft, but they're all kind. Are they "nice?" Probably not, and I don't think any of us would be interested in dating someone who couldn't stomach a woman who breaks that stereotype.
Demarcus, a friend of mine in his 20s, says he is attracted to women who are "cool and don't take bullshit and will fight for their convictions whatever that may be." He finds women like this to be more attractive in part because they inspire him. "It's not that deep but in regards to men liking 'nice' women, there are a lot of problematic implications with that." Demarcus likens the concept of a "nice woman" to the disgusting cliché of a "good girl."
"I think the implications with 'nice' women under a patriarchal system sounds like an 'ideal' woman who does not challenge or agitate a status quo," Demarcus says. If women aren't "nice" then they're "labeled 'nasty' or 'mean' by not falling into a 'nice' category. It's limiting and dumb."
That dumb article on FOX News says that women need to work at being nice, which is also true, according to Fox. But unlike Venker, Fox didn't see this as an aspirational goal as much as a form of social control. "'Niceness' or 'ladyhood' is an achieved rather than ascribed status," Fox explained. "Niceness or ladylikeness is held out as an achievable ideal; because every woman can learn to be a lady, every woman is expected to act like one." And this, Fox explained, is the sick carrot trick that keeps women walking swiftly toward desirability, only to find that they are still not quite good enough. "One's identity as 'lady' or as 'nice girl' is never finally confirmed," Fox wrote. "Rather, it is continually in jeopardy, and one is under pressure to demonstrate one's niceness anew by one's behavior in each instance of social interaction."
Whether women are vying for employment or trying to be perceived as desirable to men, "there seems to be little that a woman does that cannot be used as a test of her niceness and therefore as an opportunity for control." And if you can't be "nice," if you insist on not being "soft," or "gentle," that's your own fault. You should have tried harder. "The victim, in other words, will have earned her fate," Fox wrote.
We performed an extension study on a previous research article My Fair Lady? Inferring Organizational Trust from the Mere Presence of Women in Leadership Roles and applied it to college students at Longwood University. The research question being examined was whether or not female student leaders are perceived to show more organizational trust than male student leaders. We hypothesized that female student leaders would be more trusted than male student leaders within the organizations of the Student Government Association (SGA) and Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL).
Choudhary said at her sentencing that Larry McClure enticed McGuire to play a "trust game" in which McGuire's feet were tied up. When he tried to get out of the bindings, Amanda McClure hit him in the head with a wine bottle, Choudhary said.
Federal prosecutors alleged in a document filed May 11 that Mansfield embezzled the funds for her personal use while managing the supplemental needs trust accounts of five Gatesway Foundation clients.
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