men vs women

The secret to the war of the sexes is that no one will ever win, the most we can hope for is an amicable agreement to try to understand eachother...or at least to restrain aggitation when the opposite sex doesn't know exactly what to say to make everything better. The key to the fundamental miscommunication lies with, well, the boys of course! They are always trying to fix things. I can't hold it against them too much of the time, because that's all they can think to do to help. And lets face it they can't do a whole lot else. Girls talk; they talk just to talk, and they only want a sympathetic ear. Another difference is that boys aren't analytical. Do you hear that girls? He means what he says, so when you say that you are "fine" he applies boy logic and thinks that you are in exactly the same state that you claim to be in. After all, why would you say that you are "fine" when you are not fine. As my recently enlightened male roommate said, Guys aren't cryptic because they can't solve girls puzzles. This is of course the Ying to the girl Yang. If a boy has ever been around a group of two or more girls after a first date or an important phone call or an "accidental" run-in, he would probably run the other direction. A good friend of mine recently ran into an ex in a restaurant. He was with his girl friend an another couple. However, and she stressed this many many times during the conversation, when they exited the establishment, her ex was walking next to his guy friend and NOT his girlfriend. From this minor detail, my friend surmised that there must be trouble in paradise. He could not, under any circumstance, love this new woman the way he had loved her. Why was he with her then? He must be unhappy. He approached her, so he must be trying to reconnect.
I didn't have the heart to tell her he was probably trying to be polite.
On the other hand, if we could always understand eachother, there would be no fights or making up!

Antigone

The purpose of this post is to test, because I don't know what Im doing... But my thought about Antigone is that although it's any ancient and sometimes dry text, I get completely caught up in the tragic poetry of her circumstances, and the circumstances of Creon - who would change things if he could but is bound by his own pride and law which would crumble if he were to go back on his word for Antigone. I love that all five of the tragic conflicts are present in the text: man vs woman, individual vs society, youth vs age, individual vs society, and mortals vs the god(s). The fate of Antigone is set, but she doesn't fight death and through her complacency, and even her obstinate fight for Justice, which demands for both her brother's burrial and her death, is an observance of what must be. In the Classical World, characters are masters of accepting responisbilty and consequences of their actions, perhaps a good lesson for contemporary readers.