She was startled when her inner tete-a-tete with herself revealed how their traits were in sync with gender clichés.
Where she was emotionally-sensitive, submissive and sexually modest, he was aggressive, pushy, sexually explicit and emotionally-discreet.
As much as she wouldn’t like to admit, but most of her life was spent in being stereotyped.
Before him she was considered as an epitome of an ideal girl with the best education, suave mannerisms along with a drizzling docility.
After him she wasn’t short of a rebel ruled by her unanchored dark emotions earning her a label – ‘immoral’. More than the people around her, she herself made the typecast real for him.
When she wanted to call him out on his indifference and cruel behavior her gentleness stopped her every time. Although her career- driven self knew quite well how it goes with work-load she never refuted his ‘swamped with work’ excuse.
It was bizarre how her stereotypes were feeding his.
The more she was adhering to the stereotypical submissiveness, the more assertive he was becoming in his stereotype.
Perhaps, that was reason when she declined to go beyond the make out sessions he couldn’t handle her ‘no’ and went silent on her. With a slight hesitation she admitted, “Clichés may not be all redundant in my life, but I have a bit of both categories – ideal and immoral.”