Since when does football not matter? What, are you from Los Angeles or something? Or maybe just from Oakland, where football hasn't actually mattered since 2003? You can be a guy and still wear nice clothes. Listen to ZZ Top's "Sharp Dressed Man" sometime.
I never said you CAN'T be a guy and wear nice clothes. I'm a guy and wear nice clothes, so obviously they are not mutually exclusive. However, have you ever had a male roommate? It's perfectly acceptable in "male" culture to wear the same underwear 2 or 3 days in a row, for example. No one blinks an eye at that. This is the sort of thing I mean. For guys, it's cool to go outside in sweatpants and an oversized sweatshirt. In class, a guy can wear the same thing twice in a row to a MWF class and it won't get noticed. If a girl did that, you can damn well bet every single one of her friends would notice and mention it. No dude would think twice. And the list goes on...
That doesn't mean they hate shopping. It just means they're focused on what they're shopping for. It's all about the context. I enjoy shopping because it means I'm going to get something of use to me. However, I would not enjoy shopping if it involved walking out of a store carrying six bags of tacky knick-knacks that will ultimately get sold five months from now at the townwide garage sale. That is time and money I would rather spend on beer.[/QUOTE]
Yes, it means they hate
shopping. We're defining shopping here as the type of shopping that women call shopping. Going to the mall, meandering around Forever 21, Sephora, American Eagle, Gap, Limited, A/X, etc and then buying a few things - maybe.
Men are goal-oriented. "Me need shirt. Me go buy shirt." Women are task-oriented. "I need some shoes... let's go to the mall!" I.e., a woman will not simply JUST go to a shoe store when she goes "shopping."
It's extremely difficult to explain this, especially since you think going to buy something from Store X and then leave constitutes "shopping." You don't have to have six bags of knick-knacks - What if it's six bags of stuff that "means something" to you? Point being, men will never buy clothing in that amount, and if they DID, they wouldn't go in a social pack and make a day of it. It would, again, be goal-oriented (the items), not task-oriented. Same reason why I observed, during my stint in a department store, 90% of women try 100% of their clothes on, while 30% of men try 50% of their clothes on.
Simple gender socialization.