A question for the boys ...

Pepperoni and pineapple? Stay away from anyone ordering that combination.

 

If you only knew the whole truth. Once a Neanderthal, always a Neanderthal....

 

But ... but ... but ... put mushrooms on that sucker and you have a work of art!

 

Trust me, I've dealt with enough guys to know how y'all think. It's hopeless.

Though, as a good friend of my will attest, I will be the first to admit that women are crazy.

 

We are, she said, nodding her head vigorously.

 

See, we KNOW women are crazy. But you all act shocked when you find out we're dense

 

A valid point, Bob.

 

I have one or two a year. Best of luck. I have to go cover a horse show.

 

The Italian-Hawaiian Anti-Defamation League would like a word with you.

I can't speak for other guys, but the cultural instability of gender roles has made dating, particularly the early stages of dating, confusing. I was raised with a fairly strict Southern manners ettiquette regarding how to act with women. Then, in the late 80s and early 90s, I dated a number of radical feminist women who would get pissed off at traditional niceties, such as opening a door, as they found it patronizing. Then, in the mid/late 90s, an antifeminist backlash seemed to bring the old rules back. I tend to err on the side of traditional behavior just to be on the safe side.

As far as guys being dense goes...I cringe, gnash my teeth and wail when I think of all the smokin' hot action I missed out on in my 20s because I was too stupid to figure out that the woman in question liked me. God, what a dumbass I was.

 

there ain't a man alive who hasn't heard many times -- way too long after the fact -- "why didn't you ever ask me out?"


damn.

 

It's strange....many years removed from my days in the dating pool...happily (most of the time at least) married with a child....and when I think about the memories those two posts brought to mind, I still feel the very great need to bang my head against the wall for an hour or so.....

 

Yet, there's another strain of male that convince themselves that EVERY woman secretly wants them, regardless of how absurd that is to everyone else. Men tend to fall into 2 categories on this: the dense and the deluded. Most are dense, a few are deluded, but there's very few in between.