Understanding the other half . . .

[NotHardUp1]

So, it's a common trope that hetero pairs are forever resolving the tension of women being romantic and men being just men.

This video is a lampoon of that sort.

Whether this is true for most hetero couples or not, it is at least common enough that the lampoon works because people recognize the issue and the argument that arises "out of nowhere" phenomenon.

Question being, do gay couples experience this as much, or is it pretty much rare because like attracts like more often in the gay world than in the straight (if it does)?

 

[peeonme]

In either case, don't ask if you don't want the truth. I would think that there are a number of gay couples that run in to this. My wife has found that she will get some zany answer like "I am contemplating the size of the universe"
or "perpetual motion". When I get bored I entertain such thoughts.

 

[NotHardUp1]

One would think that it might be a bygone perception of women from a different era, but 9gag is replete with many memes showing a pretty young woman looking irked in bed, the cute guy in a fetal position beside her, and she is sure he is thinking of another woman. He's inevitably pondering some stupid point, like how big pigs really are or why his balls don't grow as much hair as his dad's.

 

[FPNY]

That’s funny. In my house we’re either thinking the exact same thing at the exact same time. Or we are on complete opposite ends of the spectrum.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

In my first serious gay relationship the gulf was his South American heritage (I'm Dutch). In the second one it was that he was born in 1940 and I in 1977.

No gay man I know thinks like the women I know.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I have known several gay men who were feminine, but the catch in the video is the emotional context of things that women feel (including their fears) versus the lack of it in men.

It perhaps intersects gay lives in that gay men are often described or assigned the quality of being more emotional and sensitive.

As for the meme with the gal being paranoid and jealous, there is obviously more than enough instances of straight men being the same about their partners.

 

[G-Lexington]

When somebody asks me what I’m thinking...75% of the time, the answer is “sex”. And 30% of the tine, the answer is “nachos”.

Lex

(5% of the time, the answer is “If he can keep really still, I could fuck a guy who is balancing a plate of nachos on his back.”)

 

[NotHardUp1]

You're gonna become a meme, or an act on Ed Sullivan once they revive that show too.

And we will have known you back when you were a commoner.

Nachos are certainly a bonding food. I may have them next weekend when I have guests coming. Sooo appealing.