The facebook thing of announcing relationships is prone to irritate me. I just saw an update from a friend saying he was in a relationship. In the comments beneath people congratulated him on 'getting' himself an awesome girl, and telling him he had 'done well' to get her.
It seems very chauvinistic to me, without any awareness of doing so people were treating the girl as though she were now an attachment of my friend, almost as though he had acquired her, and she had worth just as a female asset.
Perhaps it irritated me without cause, but it did prompt me to post a short comment to this affect. Perhaps it was because the girl is younger than the guy? Or perhaps it's just because the comments were written by people who saw things too much in black and white?
More broadly speaking, what do people think about this? Do you ever see similar behaviour in life or on the net?
It seems very chauvinistic to me, without any awareness of doing so people were treating the girl as though she were now an attachment of my friend, almost as though he had acquired her, and she had worth just as a female asset.
Perhaps it irritated me without cause, but it did prompt me to post a short comment to this affect. Perhaps it was because the girl is younger than the guy? Or perhaps it's just because the comments were written by people who saw things too much in black and white?
More broadly speaking, what do people think about this? Do you ever see similar behaviour in life or on the net?
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