[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Gift code (was Main List's: Why Ron Loves Hermione)

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

At 9:55 PM +0000 9/24/03, Cindy C. wrote:
>
>Then there's giving a non-intimate gift in an intimate relationship.
>Like the husband who gives his wife a vacuum cleaner for her birthday.
>  For some reason, it is OK for the wife to give the husband power
>tools.  Double standard, that.

I don't think that's a double standard per se.  There are individual 
situations in which is would be appropriate for a man to give his 
lady love power tools as well.  I think the distinction here is that 
power tools, for most men, are a hobby item; it is appropriate both 
in a friendship and in a romantic relationship to give items relating 
to the other person's strong interests or hobbies.  (See also the 
broom polishing kit.)

No one, however, vacuums as a hobby.


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