Yeah, this one is quite shocking to see, actually. Especially the celebs thing. People gossiping about the antics of someone THEY HAVE NEVER MET. Chick crack.
Men don’t do that?
I don’t spend enough time with people who focus on celebrities to have an opinion, so I’m trying to update.
Men tend to talk about the teams more than the individuals. If they talk about the people it is often in terms of their skill (Did you see X’s brilliant Goal) rather than their character/actions.
Nerds also have their teams, see the cult of the Apple or open source software fanboys.
I get curious when I look at the covers of the supermarket tabloids, and once in a while I look at the insides when I’m bored waiting in line. But it’s not something that I “should” care about—and it’s not like the tabloids are known for their accuracy anyway—so I don’t think about them when I’m not looking at them. And just seeing the covers has already made me sick of the Brad Pitt / Angelina Jolie / Jennifer Aniston love triangle.
Do men gossip about the lives of famous team sports players, or is that also mostly women?
A more general point: I have an untested belief that everyone has something they’re rational, or at least logical about. They might not be able to focus on math. They might not understand that plumbing pipes have limited capacity.
But they will by God track it down until they’ve established whether someone is a second cousin once removed or not. They’ll fit actors’ careers neatly into timelines.Maybe it’s gardening or a model train set-up where they have something to defend, and update effortlessly even if they’re clueless in other parts of their lives.
Am I over-optimistic to think that people generally have something like that?
Sorry, I deleted my comment after I saw Roko say the same thing.
Do men gossip about the lives of famous team sports players, or is that also mostly women?
My experience is that the personal lives of athletes only get discussed when they commit a crime which might lead to a them missing games and thus affecting the sport. And so it is mostly men.
(NT, normal) Women are notorious for an excessive interest in celebrity gossip. (NT, normal) Men, not so much. Typical interests for them would be: cars, football, and page 3 girls (though of course that’s a massive overgeneralization, but a good zero’th order approximation. Jeez LW, you have to start somewhere!).
Men don’t do that?
I don’t spend enough time with people who focus on celebrities to have an opinion, so I’m trying to update.
Men tend to talk about the teams more than the individuals. If they talk about the people it is often in terms of their skill (Did you see X’s brilliant Goal) rather than their character/actions.
Nerds also have their teams, see the cult of the Apple or open source software fanboys.
I get curious when I look at the covers of the supermarket tabloids, and once in a while I look at the insides when I’m bored waiting in line. But it’s not something that I “should” care about—and it’s not like the tabloids are known for their accuracy anyway—so I don’t think about them when I’m not looking at them. And just seeing the covers has already made me sick of the Brad Pitt / Angelina Jolie / Jennifer Aniston love triangle.
On average women do it more. In the same way that men talk about team sports more.
Do men gossip about the lives of famous team sports players, or is that also mostly women?
A more general point: I have an untested belief that everyone has something they’re rational, or at least logical about. They might not be able to focus on math. They might not understand that plumbing pipes have limited capacity.
But they will by God track it down until they’ve established whether someone is a second cousin once removed or not. They’ll fit actors’ careers neatly into timelines.Maybe it’s gardening or a model train set-up where they have something to defend, and update effortlessly even if they’re clueless in other parts of their lives.
Am I over-optimistic to think that people generally have something like that?
Sorry, I deleted my comment after I saw Roko say the same thing.
My experience is that the personal lives of athletes only get discussed when they commit a crime which might lead to a them missing games and thus affecting the sport. And so it is mostly men.
(NT, normal) Women are notorious for an excessive interest in celebrity gossip. (NT, normal) Men, not so much. Typical interests for them would be: cars, football, and page 3 girls (though of course that’s a massive overgeneralization, but a good zero’th order approximation. Jeez LW, you have to start somewhere!).