Posted on 03/29/2005 3:12:03 PM PST by pissant
1. Thinking your driver's licence is not real. Somehow men just don't see your driver's licence as being quite as valid as theirs. Often, they would prefer to drive the whole way – even if it's 1 500 km – rather than asking you to drive for an hour or two. Point is, percentage-wise, women are involved in far fewer accidents than men are – ask any insurance company.
2. Assuming the house cleans itself. This is a big one. Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but no, wet underwear does not remove itself from the bathroom floor, food does not miraculously appear on the table, or in the fridge, clean and ironed clothes do not get into the cupboard by themselves and the dishes don't clean by themselves overnight. Someone does all these things. Who do you think it could be? Could it be the other person in the house who also has a nine-to-five job? Wouldn't it be nice to wash the dishes every now and then without expecting a Nobel Peace Prize for doing it?
3. Being jealous. It drives women away when men treat them like awaiting-trial prisoners, whose every move is under scrutiny. When men do this, it's about their own insecurities and their fear of rejection. When a man treats a woman like this, isolating her and accusing her of all sorts of things, he is showing his fear, not his love, and exhibiting what he thinks is his right to treat her like a possession. Most women find relationships like these claustrophobic in the extreme.
4. Putting their mother on a pedestal. Right, every woman has her bad and good qualities, but he thinks his mother is directly related to the archangel Gabriel. Your cooking, housekeeping skills, social skills, whatever, always fall short in comparison. And any criticism you express of this wondrous creature makes him look as if he's just been kicked in the teeth by his best friend.
5. It's win, win, win, all the way. Life, according to men, is one long competition, in which there are winners and losers. Women tend to be more co-operative and conciliatory by nature. Being fiercely competitive obviously has a place, but not when you're playing Ludo with your ten-year-old nieces and nephews.
6. Assuming their spending is necessary and women's wasteful. The subscription to the golf club is essential – more essential than toothpaste. Many men – there are fortunately exceptions – have no idea what basic household necessities cost. These days it's very easy to spend a thousand rand on unromantic household necessities like coffee, toilet cleaner, dog food and cereal. The cost of food has spiralled in South Africa in the last year, and it's not your partner's fault. She is not wasting money on luxuries.
7. Rather committing hara-kiri than asking directions. So what's the deal here? Is a man expected to know all roads leading everywhere, even if he's not been there before? And what would happen if he stopped and asked someone instead of driving in circles for 45 minutes? Instantaneous combustion? A public whipping? Instant castration? Surely not, but the prospect, for some reason, is as daunting. Almost as daunting as going to see the doctor about their foot that's starting to look gangrenous.
8. Wanting to fix things, instead of listening to you. You've had a bad day – the twins had diarrhoea, the domestic worker didn't arrive, but what did arrive was a hefty bill from the Receiver of Revenue. All you want is a sympathetic ear and a pat on the back and a tissue or two, and what do you get? Suggestions about medication, an offering to fire the domestic worker and the telephone number of his tax consultant. OK, that's kind, but it's not what you wanted. You wanted a shoulder to cry on.
9. A thing of beauty forever. Men, who have gone completely bald and who have a beer belly that would have won them the Ventersdorp Mr Boep competition if they had entered, assume that all women still find them attractive and flirt with them accordingly. What's more, they notice an extra three kilos on their wives – and comment on it. Whatever happened to what was good for the goose, being good for the gander and all that?
10. They get paid more for doing the same thing. Technically this shouldn't be the case – after all we have one of the most advanced constitutions in the world, don't we? But, statitistics still tell the sorry tale of women being stuck in low-paid, heavygoing jobs with low starting salaries and lower low glass ceilings. And, if one asks around, it still happens frequently that men are paid higher starting salaries than women are.
Wish #1 was true in my house. My husband absolutely hates to drive. I drive most of the time in town. Any long trips are equally divided.
Of course, I love driving on the ling trips. He who rides in the passenger seat, must deal with 3 children every other minute.
Well some King of the Beasts that loser is! LOL
slip the youngens a mickey before you hit the road!
That's a keeper!!!!!!
LOL!
Wish there was an over-the-counter sleeping pill for little ones.
HAAAAHAAA! Love it!
I'd like to see the male perspective on each of these whines, point by point. Some enterprising guy around here could probably come up with something really clever!
Be sure to drop by the thread directly above this one!!
Which one? This is what my page shows before this one:
My “Closing Argument”—poor Nelson Mandela ^
Posted by Former Military Chick
On News/Activism ^ 03/29/2005 5:44:15 PM CST · 14 replies · 240+ views
MSNBC ^ | March 28, 2005 | DAN ABRAMS
My “Closing Argument”—poor Nelson Mandela. No not because the man spent 27 years of his life as a political prisoner in South Africa for refusing to support an unconscionable system of apartheid. But because it seems some of the world‘s more unsavory characters think that Mandela being jailed for leading a mass political struggle against racism is somehow comparable to their plights. The most recent, Michael Jackson. He told the Reverend Jesse Jackson this weekend that he like Mandela was being victimized by white officials pursuing child molestation charges against him. Whatever you think about the Jackson case and even...
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As a MAN, allow me to tell why I do not like to ask for directions, BUT I still will, if I need to(I'd rather use mapquest, or "paper" maps, before that).
Here is a typical discussion with a local, about a street:
Me:: Sir, could you tell me where 2100 third street is? It is supposed to be close to here.
Other person:; Ok, I think you go down to the corner, turn left, and then, go 2 , or no, is it 3 traffic lights down, and then, you turn right at a church, or no, I think it is a school, and then, you go until you see a Mcdonalds, or maybe it is a Burger King, no, I think it is a Mcdonalds, and then ,you turn left, or, maybe it's right, and then, go through the light, and turn left at the old paper mill, and then, go down three streets, and then, I think, you turn left again, and then, you are there.
BTW-- This is NOT much of an exaggeration. Occasionaly, I DO find a man ,or a woman, who gives useful directions, but more often, it is this kind of worthless drivel.
in general/chat there are two ongoing threads. This one "men irritate women" and the one above it "woman irritate men"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1373406/posts
I must confess that I bear some responsibility. I love to cook and my first husband gained 40 pounds and my current husband (thank God he started out very thin) has put on nearly 60 pounds.
there is truth to the old saying, "the way to a man's heart is thru his stomach"!!
I'd forgotten about that one, seeing as I don't got no female hangin' around my neck!
I doubt that. Even stay at home moms drive their kids so many places that it really puts on the miles. Women are just better drivers. :)
Men drive WAY more miles. Guaranteed. That being said, I'd just as soon ride as drive.
Guaranteed? Do you have a source to back that up?
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