January 6, 2001

• Generational gaps

  
  

  acccks....e.ach time I go out clubbing and come back late, i inevitably get the how late did you come home, who did you meet, did any guys try to do anything funny spiel the next morning from my mother. not that I mind it that much, but she also expects me to conform in some ways to the social norms observed in her times, i.e. if i were to go out with a guy, he would pick me up at my doorstep, and send me back to my door before midnite.

  
  

  hmmm....this is all well and good, but what happened to female independence?? not that it is a bad thing to have someone driving you around, but I personally dislike having to impose on someone, especially a guy who is trying to pursue me if I discover somewhere along the way that i am not all that interested in him as i was at the beginning.

  
  

  arrghs. society here has changed a very great deal since my mother's dating days and she knows that. thankfully, she doesn't insist that I truly conform to the standards of that era. phew! but she still expects that guys should conform to the standards of that era in the respect that they should do all sorts of things for girls (my dear old-fashioned mummy ). I do think i know better.....it's not expected of guys anymore, but hey, if a guy were to do all that for me, he'd be a real sweetheart .

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