You know how when guys are young, they greet each other with a punch? (Yeah, I know, girls, I never understood it, either.)
What’s the grown-up equivalent of that punch?
01/27/2006
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Insults and put-downs. (Often on the border between homophobic and homoerotic.)
Comment by Eric J — 01/27/2006 @ 3:50 pm
Sword fights.
Comment by Solomon — 01/27/2006 @ 4:09 pm
High fives and overuse of the word “dude”
Comment by The Doctor — 01/27/2006 @ 8:45 pm
It’s still a punch, or a hand-shake with a shoulder clasp.
Comment by prairie biker — 01/27/2006 @ 11:58 pm
“Grown-up”?
Comment by Mac Thomason — 01/28/2006 @ 12:06 pm
We slap each other (lightly, mind you) on the stomachs. Yeah, and some insults and put-downs, of course, too.
Comment by SnoopyTheGoon — 01/28/2006 @ 1:02 pm
See, now I just think some of you are just making shit up. Except Matt. And Eric.
I know. I’ll go read Norah Vincent’s new book! After all, who best to understand the mind of a man than a lesbian who dresses up as a guy to go hang out with men?
Comment by Meryl Yourish — 01/28/2006 @ 3:28 pm
Meryl,
Someone I know summed up the difference of communication among the two (heh) genders very well:
Men communicate to establish Hierarchy, Women communicate to establish intimacy.
Sounds like my friend read the book, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.
Comment by cond0010 — 01/28/2006 @ 6:50 pm
Not making it up, Meryl…as you know I am truely and definitely a guy and can speak from experience.
Comment by The Doctor — 01/29/2006 @ 7:48 pm
Who, me? Making stuff up? Nevah…
But this Norah Vincent is something else, on that I agree wholeheartedly. She hit all the nails on the head.
Comment by SnoopyTheGoon — 01/30/2006 @ 7:13 am
Depends, but knuckle-busting handshakes are popular.
Comment by Ryan Frank — 01/30/2006 @ 11:57 am
Ryan, that is one of my biggest pet peeves. I can’t remember who the guy was, but some guy at work grabbed my hand and shook it in one of those bone-crunching handshakes when he was introduced to me. Then he tried to do it again when he was leaving, and I pulled my hand back before he could and said, “Oh, no. You already did that once, you’re not crushing my hand again.”
I don’t care if it was perceived as rude. I don’t care if he was publicly embarrassed. I cannot STAND having my hand squeezed by some stranger who thinks it’s okay to smash it as a ritual greeting.
It most certainly is not.
Comment by Meryl Yourish — 01/30/2006 @ 12:07 pm
Usually its a male-to-male thing, but I have heard a lot of women complain about it in the business environment.
Comment by Ryan Frank — 01/30/2006 @ 2:57 pm