Raneth wrote:Smallguy: Well, you've given me food for thought/evidence that the genders are evaluated in different ways in terms of social skills, but I expected it the other way.
I guess I always got the impression that men were much more easily forgiven for being socially awkward. A guy does something kind of weird, and people overlook it or laugh. A woman does it, and she's automatically assumed to have an ulterior motive. A shy guy is seen as shy or awkward, a shy girl is assumed to be stuck up, etc.
I'm trying to think of a way to design an experiment around this and I'm coming up rather blank.
Men have fewer obvious reasons to get up randomly and leave. A common assumption for women is womanly issues, fix makeup/hair/general beauty reasons, general bathroom trip. But men in general don't have some of those reasons. It is easier to assign a reason to a woman doing something odd than it is for a man.
While society may be more forgiving of men for being socially awkward, there are fewer common assumptions people can make about why a man does weird things.
ooooo! yayyyyyy! 
All the ones I find don't seem to quite catch my interest
