Men and women

I read this interesting blog that Donal Miller wrote about how men treat men differently than they treat women.

http://storylineblog.com/2012/10/30/like-equals-or-like-men/

Outside of his questions, I now have some of my own...

She said men don’t compliment each other, they don’t encourage each other, and when they shake hands, they grab each other firmly and look each other in the eye without smiling. It’s like they don’t know how to get along, she said.

Is this why I tend to have better friendships with men...I don't know how to compliment/appease a woman's emotions enough to maintain multiple long-term/high-density relationships with them?

As a rule, men are not nice or kind to each other. We do have our friends and we play our favorites, but for the most part, men are competitive and intense and are often marking our territory. I don’t know a single man who isn’t more kind to women than they are to men. Men are tough with each other and much more likely to fight with each other than they are to fight with a woman.

Is this why guys who know each other through a significant other have a hard time getting along? They're "marking their territory"?

Weird.

This is actually hard. Please don't assume I'm just being modest.

Medical school is hard. I know you hear med students say that all the time, but maybe you're a pre-med student who thinks, "Yeah, it's hard for most people but I've never struggled in school before and I'm killer with multiple choice tests."
Maybe you just know a medical student, and all of his or her life they've been really good in school, and if they get an A- their whole day is ruined. If they get a B in a class, they might cry for 3 hours. So you assume that when they say they didn't do well on a test that they got in the low 90s, maybe an 89%, and so you naturally say, "Oh come on, I'm sure you did fine!"

There's a meme on the popular tumblr about medical school about test scores. There is picture a representing undergrad 75, showing a girl under a desk crying and drinking a bottle of wine. The picture of a med school 75 has a man winning a game show, ecstatically raising his hands above his head. #whatshouldwecallmedschool

This is an accurate description.

So from now on, if I tell you I didn't do well on a test, please do me a favor and assume I almost failed...or maybe that I did fail....and react accordingly. It makes it worse when you remind me that I used to be smart enough for you to assume doing bad was still an A.