Do guys even remotely compare to women in aspects pertaining to romance?
This Is a question I need answered. A few hours ago, having just seen Breaking Dawn Part 2, I found myself pondering if the few men in the theater left feeling at all similar to the women. I'm assuming I was not alone in my quiet reverie on the drive home feeling the oxytocin induced wistfulness, a common side effect of chick flicks. Ladies, you know the feeling. That moment when you sigh really big and your hope makes you long for the delusion just witnessed on the silver screen. I have previously written about my beliefs of the effect romances have on women. Here is a brief synopsis: We read about and/or watch romances that fill us, the hopelessly deluded of us, with the hope and idea that that kind of love truly exists. We then spend "x" amount of time trying to find such an epic, vomit inducing, over the top, yet so appealing, real life version of this fictional love only to have reality fall short. Go figure.
However, I'm interested in whether or not love affects men in a mushy manner. I'm sure that most movies, especially Twilight, have little to no effect on the majority of the male populace. I'm also sure there are men out there who might get a pang of what women feel but would never own up to it. The social norms and gender roles placed on men and women dictate the we, the women, are the sappy romance types, while the men are the hard, logical, less emotional types. My question still lies in romance. It's something scarcely talked about and I know why. But to hell with gender roles. We all know Freud had an oedipal complex for his mom and projected that onto the rest of mankind.
So men, riddle me this: What gets to you? What, if anything, causes you to have your own oxytocin driven reverie of wistfulness? And gentlemen, romance and wistfulness do not equate to late night internet videos watched alone. Let's keep it clean please.
