Friday, October 12, 2007

why in the world are there only the terms boyfriends and girlfriends and nothing else

"Soon I shall no longer be your boyfriend. I will be your... manfriend!!" said Mark referring to the hairs growing on his arms, "and then later.. I will be your oldmanfriend!"

"But there's no such thing as a manfriend, or an oldmanfriend, or a womanfriend.." I said in return.

"Oh but why?" asked Mark.

"Well.. because...." I started before I got cut off.

"You blog about it! Then I'll read it and get back to you", said Mark hurriedly.

"................................. WHY ARE YOU SO LAZY THAT YOU DON'T EVEN WANT TO MAKE CONVERSATION WITH ME ANYMORE, IS IT?!!"

But anyway.





Why in the world are there only the terms boyfriends and girlfriends and nothing else.
thoroughly and exhaustively researched by Kimberley.


A serious question was posed to me last night. Why, regardless of age, are the terms boyfriends and girlfriends used. This is a good question indeed. Why. Why aren't there instead terms such as manfriends, womanfriends, oldmanfriends, oldnagfriends, and such.

The answer is this: When these couples are around each other, they are magically reverted back to their teenage days where they might tend to ignore all others in the room, abuse petname calling, act on unthoughtful acts of PDA, and generally being too overly lovey dovey with one another.

Therefore, there can be no such thing as a manfriend, etc. as the term manfriend suggests that the individual to be mature about his relationship. Whenever a man turns out to be more mature about his relationship with his partner, he is no longer at the boyfriend/girlfriend stage. At that stage, he is called a husband.

But even at the husband/wife stage, they can still revert back to their teens/lovey dovey days by going out behind their partner's backs and getting a boyfriend/girlfriend - as long as they're not married to that person they will forever be lovey dovey in that relationship.

It all stops once they're married. Therefore, proven.

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3 comments:

Jill said...

But old people can call their girlfriends/boyfriends, their 'companions' because they don wanna seem like juveniles because they're old. XD

I sound so discriminatory against the old! XD

Kim said...

oh. at that age, and when they start calling someone their companion, it seems to me like they're either already long time married or gay. :P

Anonymous said...

but what about those that call their boyfriends or girlfriends their 'lover'?