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.
Well, in that specific dinner scenario, they might excuse the female more than the male, but in other scenarios...the problem would be in making a scenario that eliminated most of the assumptions about what the gender causes, and merely focusing on the appearance and image of the gender. It's hard to disconnect women and Mother Nature's gift mentally, though.
@Soleil: True, but some people might assume urgent matters, or something. If I'm about to vomit at the table, I'm up and moving away with all possible haste, and to hell with what they think of me. I'll explain it after I get back, and I hope they know me well enough to understand that
