Armenian lesbians/gays

[Flamenkita]

Re: Armenian lesbians/gays

Isn't that the premise of flirting?

My 8 year old daughter already knows that when a boy gives you a hard time it's probably because he likes you and resents it that you make him feel that way...

[KanadaHye]

Re: Armenian lesbians/gays

And that joke begs the response, "What have you done for me lately?"

See? That's exactly how it happens. If you make everything into a transaction, you, too, end up participating in your own demise.

Isn't that the premise of flirting?

[Flamenkita]

Re: Armenian lesbians/gays

Great story babe. Now get in the kitchen and make me a sandwich.



Before you get your feathers all ruffled, that was a joke .

And that joke begs the response, "What have you done for me lately?"

See? That's exactly how it happens. If you make everything into a transaction, you, too, end up participating in your own demise.

[KanadaHye]

Re: Armenian lesbians/gays

Sometimes I feel like I'm conversing with my grandfather instead of a man who's probably young enough to be my son!

Also, most of the crazies are walking around the streets. If only they'd seek help, especially those with narcissistic personality disorder.

Great story babe. Now get in the kitchen and make me a sandwich.



Before you get your feathers all ruffled, that was a joke .

[Flamenkita]

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My point is the reason America is so F'd up is because there is no such thing as "shame" or what you should know as "amot". It's good though, if you're a psychiatrist since the more F'd up it is, the more clients you get. I mean, if you were working on prevention, you'd be out of a job.

Sometimes I feel like I'm conversing with my grandfather instead of a man who's probably young enough to be my son!

Also, most of the crazies are walking around the streets. If only they'd seek help, especially those with narcissistic personality disorder.

[KanadaHye]

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What's your point?

My point is the reason America is so F'd up is because there is no such thing as "shame" or what you should know as "amot". It's good though, if you're a psychiatrist since the more F'd up it is, the more clients you get. I mean, if you were working on prevention, you'd be out of a job.

[Flamenkita]

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America didn't know that women had orgasms until Dr. Ruth the Hrya witch doctor

What's your point?

[KanadaHye]

Re: Armenian lesbians/gays

Women need to understand that it is their job to make themselves happy (just as they need to learn that they have a role to play in their own sexual satisfaction...knowing how to orgasm).

America didn't know that women had orgasms until Dr. Ruth the Hrya witch doctor

[KanadaHye]

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@ArmSurvival. First of all, I think I'm considerably older than you, and second, I am a practicing clinical psychologist. So, even if I haven't seen things or experienced things first hand, I have talked with enough people and worked with enough people to know what the problems are and what potential solutions are.

You can't simply reduce it to "a nice guy who gets screwed by party girls". I know just as many women who have been "forced into celibacy" because of a lack of decent men. In fact, it is kind of surprising to me to hear you say that women have all the control. That just simply is not true.

I was raised in the US. My parents were profoundly restrictive of me until I left for college. And I arrived at college with hardly any experience in the realm of dating or even just friendship with men. And it was as if I was thrown to the wolves. There I was. Young, attractive, intelligent, and absolutely clueless as to how to interpret others' intentions. Of course I fell in with some "bad boys", but mostly I blame my own naivety for that. And for that, I blame my parents who didn't give me adequate preparation for some of the most important things in life. I also didn't have siblings, so no role models. I had to pretty much figure it out on my own. And I did. But it took a long time, and lots of bad choices.

The worst thing parents can do to their children is to shelter them too much and then send them out into the world. The second piece, the going out into the world, is inevitable nowadays. But the first part, the adequate preparation for social and relational things, is part of a parent's job, unless they are living in a tight traditional environment where people have no choice but to fall into step with everyone else. But if you are raising your children in the US and expect them to make lives for themselves in the US, then you have to prepare them for that.

I think Armenian parents need to be way more open with their children than they have been, with boys as well as with girls. I know many guys who are under the impression that earning enough money for luxuries is adequate for securing a satisfying relationship with a woman. And when this doesn't come to pass, they are angry at the women rather than at their own parents who failed to prepare them for life in the real world. Consequently, Armenian mothers give their daughters mixed messages all the time. On the one hand, they tell them that it's important to be independent and get an education, and then turn around and tell them that it's important to marry a man with a lucrative job. So, women go to school and acquire higher levels of education. On the other hand, they are looking to "marry well". But then, they realize that the amount of material comfort that might have satisfied their mothers isn't going to satisfy them. In fact, no amount of material wealth can be satisfactory, but they don't seem to ever come to that conclusion. So, they go looking for more, bigger, better, brighter, shinier, newer, faster. None of it keeps its meaning. And it's a shame because at the same time, the men are being taught that if they can provide these material things to their women, they can be assured of a happy life, a happy marriage, and sex on a regular basis. But this doesn't work out because the women are never impressed, never satisfied. And, the really horrible thing that happens among Armenian women is the competition they are in with each other. Siranoush has a new Mercedes. Maralig wants one. Hagop took Mariam to Cancun for her birthday. Nazeli is upset and won't have sex with Garo because he just started a new business and doesn't have the money just now for a vacation. But none of it is meaningful because the foundation is wrong.

I put the blame on the parents who just haven't taken the time to think and realize that those things that meant something in their lives, those things that they aspired to in the cultures they grew up in, don't hold the same meaning. And so entire generations of Armenians are growing up without a real grounding on what the "good life" is, because they have just accepted their parents' definition of it without questioning it or thinking about what their own meaning would be.

Maybe it's going to take another generation or two. But the problem is systemic and everybody plays a part in it. And when people like me come in and say, hold on, look at the part you play in the crisis and then look at other people's contributions, I end up being vilified. I know what the crisis is. I understand it from a personal level, and intellectual level, a cultural level, and a professional level. And I know that the solutions are not going to come easily and without every single individual doing their own self-examination.

Huh? I'm not even going to bother wasting my time tearing this apart... I don't have the patience. Feel free ArmSurvival.

[Flamenkita]

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The loneliness is actually caused by society making individuals feel like they are less of a person because they are single. Women (esp. the feminist types) usually try to make guys feel like less of a man because they don't "have a woman". However, it's ok for a woman to be independent, especially when her independence comes from receiving payments from some guy she screwed over.

Loneliness is actually a big piece of what it is to be human. We are implicitly separate from other human beings, and can never go back to the mother-child dyad where boundaries are blurred, and where the blurring of boundaries is necessary for the infant's survival. But, Armenian mothers don't seem to get that children are separate from them, and that they must separate and make lives with other people. There isn't adequate individuation. And so, people never learn how to be OK when they're alone. Loneliness and solitude are two very different things. Even in a marriage people can feel very lonely at times, and it's exacerbated by the fact that, hey, they're married, and they got married because they weren't supposed to feel the bite of loneliness ever again.

I don't know which feminists you've been talking to, but I don't think making men feel inadequate for not having a woman is part of the feminist agenda. In fact, that goes counter to what feminists think, and that is that men and women are different but equal.

For every man who you think got screwed over and has to pay alimony and child support, I know just as many dead-beat dads, and even a number of men who are demanding that their working ex-wives pay THEM for child support. These people should not have been married to begin with, and they should not have had children, because it's the children who end up suffering at the end of the day.

Women need to understand that it is their job to make themselves happy (just as they need to learn that they have a role to play in their own sexual satisfaction...knowing how to orgasm). Husbands can't do it for them. Children can't do it. It is up to the individual to figure out what it is that makes her happy. Once that is in place, then life happens. It's a huge paradox, but it is just the way it is. Unhappy people will never be happy due to the actions of another human being. Bitter people will not lose their bitterness by expecting others to think or behave in particular ways.

And no, it isn't enough just to be educated and have a lucrative job, or a fine car or nice physique. You also have to have character and an ability to see the other person's subjectivity. If you feel like a woman isn't giving you enough of a chance, ask her what is missing in her life. I bet you her answer will not be what you expect it to be, and it will probably have nothing at all to do with you.