Thursday, June 5, 2008
Class Business Week 4
After reading through Ch. 9 of the text, I found, Feminine Friendships:Closeness in Dialogue to be very interesting. I have a handful of good girlfriends, however I have certain friends that I may talk and communicate more than others. Though we're all good friends, I came to realized that I often may talk about certain things with one of my friends that I don't even dare to mention to another. For example, I have one friend I can talk to about relationships, another about school, another about finances, and another about career choices. Indeed the text, states that talk is the primary way to build and enrich friendships. I personally think its a matter of my friends unique characteristics that tells me whether or not one of my friends may be a better person to talk to about a certain situation than another one of my friends. Its very interesting to me why exactly that happens! I definitely feel that what my friends and I share with each other surely makes us close and I certainly feel deeply connected to all of my close friends simply because I can talk to them about certain personal things.
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Sometimes it is easier to open-up to others about certain topics and not about others. It’s really nice when you form friendships in which you feel comfortable discussing anything…or even nothing at all!
Your comments also reflecting the gendered styles of friendships pg. 213,Wood's,both men and women have close friends,they could be very precious for all different reasons and ways for each other,as you said different topics can be shared with different friends.
Caebri, I can diffidently relate to what you said about Feminine Friendships. I too have a handful of good friends and each one I can to talk to about different things. I love it. The fact that I can talk to one about my relationship, the other about school/work and the other about my finances is great. However, the only problem I have with feminine friendship is that I still cannot express myself 100%. I mean in friendships we all tend to come to a point where we get angry at each other and you talk it out and express ourselves, but if you feel some type of jealousy or maybe a little bit on envy towards you good friend I cannot see myself telling her that I feel that way. I believe a good friend should never feel jealousy or envy and I admit it’s a human trait we all do at one point. For example: my girlfriend got engaged with her boyfriend of 2 years and her ring was nice, and I truly was very happy for her, but at the same time I felt a little jealous that she got engaged before me. I never told her how I felt and I never would, I just wanted to show her I was happy for her and I didn’t want to show her I was jealous or make her feel bad so I put my jealous feeling aside. .
-Johanna
But, the point is that you as a woman are using dialogue to connect.
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