During dinner we were having a discussion asking if
men and women can be simply friends or even if this relationship exists between
the sexes. The talk started after my sister said she was just friends with some
boy in her class. It made me think about something Oscar Wilde said. It was, “between
men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity,
worship, love, but no friendship.” When I read this quote I wondered why
someone would think this. Maybe because there is so much tension between the
two sexes nothing else would be possible. Is genetics or hormones the reason
for this? The feelings Wilde said were all extremes. Like dislike or complete
and total infatuation. I don’t think men and women can simply coexist. We are
all genetically coded to want to reproduce so when we can’t with the opposite
sex we simply cast them away. I don’t think it is intentionally but simply our
animal instincts kicking in trying to make sure our genes are passed on and as
much as anyone would like to admit it we all do have animal instincts still
that we can’t get rid of.
It’s like a gravitational pull that people have
towards each other.
I really liked your quote and the way you explained it because I agree with you I don’t think that men and women can simply be friends there’s always going to be that one person that always develops feelings for the other. We can never really coexist together but there are rare instances where that does happen but again that is rare.
ReplyDeleteYou have very good points and I like your post, although some people would disagree with me I think it is easier for girls to brush off the relationship with the boy simply because the boy (Scientifically ) is the one who has it in his mind that he needs to produce but still it does stay hard for both genders at one point or another.
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