Sinners Against Gender Stereotypes (SAGS)

Yes, so this is the second tag for this blog... It may be obvious that I'm doing it as a measure to reassert my unpredictability, or maybe I'm just doing it for amusement. Either way, thanks to G for passing it on and the ideator of this tag.

Anyway, as far as sins against gender stereotypes go, I'm guilty on multiple serious counts...
Here goes 10 things that are totally un-manly of me:

1. 
   Pink shirts, I have, and wear.
   Not much of a story behind this, mom forced me to wear them for a while, and nobody hated me for them, then I just got used to them.
   
   
2. I can cook, even common household food.
   Like most gastrosexual males, I prefer to read and try exotic recipes, but when need comes I can make a decent maachher-jhol bhath or roti-sabzee.
   
   
3. I have no attraction to smokes or booze.
   Now this is something only those close to me know well, I smoke much and drink in extremely masculine amounts with friends, colleagues or family... But I consider them only social obligations and neither enjoy nor detest them. By myself, I neither smoke nor drink.
   
   
4. I am not a sports buff.
   I enjoy watching the occasional game of football (which I do love to play though) and tennis, but ask me about standings and tourneys and names and I'm quite clueless, I find cricket utterly boring. I have watched very few of the WC matches, that too in snippets and replays.
   
5. I have a very non-masculine curiosity.
   I love collecting information, about everything, including people... Any piece of information that I know exists outside my knowledge bugs me like an itch... One of the favourite ways for my closest friends to irritate me by is to open their mouths to speak and then say 'forget it'.
   
   
6. There is a stuffed dog that can be found sitting (or sprawling) on my bed.
   It can often be found being cuddled by me in sleep. There's a story behind that too. One that does not involve any girls. One which I don't think I'll be sharing right now.
   
   
7. I'm far more comfortable among females than males.
   Blame it on a childhood growing up between four cousin sisters, 0,2,4 and 5 years older than me. Which led to preferring girls over boys for close friends... and the rest is history.
   
   
8. I have read all of both Harry Potter and Twilight.
   The former I found very enjoying and the latter I found passable enough to not hate... The movies are crap though.
   
   
9. I can often understand women.
   Now this is where I am completely inviting flame from both the genders... Yes it's a tall claim to make; but firstly, due to the same reasons as sin #7 and secondly, being fascinated by women to the point of researching them thoroughly - understanding comes naturally.
   
   
10. I don't have a straightforward mind.
    Manly men are supposed to have no convolutions in their psyche, they speak their heart and are completely honest, they have only primal emotions and they express them loudly... Well, I don't.
    

All these facts are not secret as I don't have any to share, but they are very much me. (Yay me!)

On principle, I won't tag any specific person (the curse won't work on me, G), but I recommend the first 12 commenters to take up the tag. (By saying that, I have killed the comments section of this post!)

NesQuarX

Nothing to read here... Shoo! *attempts girlish wave of hand*