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"You either both declare yourselves to actually enjoy long silences, or you break off your doomed relationship.  People usually try to check that sort of thing before getting to the first date.  That's half the point of gendertropes, to the extent you can be captured by a simple standard description, you can compare your gendertropes quickly and before spending too much effort on things."

"Us both having an infinite supply of conversation and being bad at steering the topic back to romance is a separate gendertrope, however.  And then you have to check whether both people are okay with dates that turn into fascinating conversations, that continue later and later, until eventually, sixteen minutes before the hard deadline on bedtime, somebody finally raises the question of whether they were possibly supposed to remove any items of clothing a few hours earlier."

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"You either both declare yourselves to actually enjoy long silences, or you break off your doomed relationship.  People usually try to check that sort of thing before getting to the first date.  That's half the point of gendertropes.  To the extent you can be captured by a simple standard description, you can compare your gendertropes quickly and before spending too much effort on things."

"Us both having an infinite supply of conversation and both being bad at steering the topic back to romance is a separate gendertrope, however.  And then you have to check whether both people are okay with dates that turn into fascinating conversations, that continue later and later, until eventually, sixteen minutes before the hard deadline on bedtime, somebody finally raises the question of whether they were possibly supposed to remove any items of clothing a few hours earlier."