Women venting about men

[reveal]

You're a funny little man....

Not according to Lady Shatterstone. HEY-O!

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

You're a funny little man....

Thanks, I try.

 

[MaxKaladin]

"Should we have a baby? Okay, roll a d20. You want high."

There's a story for the kid when he/she gets older...

"Mommy, where did I come from?"

"Well dear, it all started when I got a natural 20..."

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Not according to Lady Shatterstone. HEY-O!

Well, yeah the little part has got to go. (I'm mean that in a nonsexual content... I'm 6'4" LS is 5'4" Maybe 5'5" on a good day.)

 

[Jesus_marley]

Ahh cause I've seen Lady Shatterstone naked?

Hey! that was a misleading link! there wasn't anyone naked under there!

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Hey! that was a misleading link! there wasn't anyone naked under there!

No, no, no. You read the link wrong. Only when the 'naked' is the linked word do you get the actual nakedness. Otherwise, just text.

 

[Teflon Billy]

...I realize men are taught from day one to internalize their feelings, but I think a lot of relationships would be helped by men realizing that women NEED to talk about things...

Uh...no.

Women don't NEED to...they are simply likewise "taught from day one" to do so. Just like men. There's nothing special about a womans desires that place them on some higher plane than mens.

Men don't have to communicate back a whole lot, just listen and try to see her point of view. And I'm not talking about "which dress should I wear, the red or the black?" I'm talking about relationship issues, i.e. "I'm feeling neglected" or "Should we have another baby" and so on.

I agree, that stuff needs to be talked about, but there have been several women I've dated who placed "where do I stand in this relationship" and "I'm feeling neglected" (both examples of fairly non-concrete discussions) on the same level as The stuff you mention up there.

And it's not. Women are just socialized to think that everything that comes into their head is profound.

Guys don't share that conceit. We are task vs process oriented.

 

[Teflon Billy]

All the more reason to gripe about him....


Guys who play with your emotions and then, after hooking you in, say it's a game.

Guys who act interested in "something more" and then say "we're just friends".

Guys who act like it's more important that you hurt their feelings and don't give a damn about yours.

Those are some of the exact same complaints I hear made about women from guys I've known

Yes. Guys suck. They're idiots.

The whole world is largely made up of idiots who suck

 

[Teflon Billy]

Men are not allowed to tell the truth to women. I know, I want to. But when I'm sitting there lost in thought and you say, "Whatcha thinking about?" I just about guarantee that you will not be happy if I tell the truth. You want to know what I've really been thinking about for the last ten minutes? Kung fu.

LOL Hail brother and well-met

My wife has stopped asking "what are you thinking" when I am just kind of sitting there quietly. She used to a lot and I found it very aggravating, and she found myanswer "nothing" to be wholly unsatisfactory.

So I started telling her.

"That Episode of Gilligans Island with the Japanese Guy in the Mini-Sub"
"What the old 20 Dollar bill looked like"
"Imagining Paige Davis naked"
"A Boxing PPV from last year"
"How difficult it would be to hook an electric lighter into the BBQ"
"William Shatner's cover of 'Common People'..."

After about 3 or 4 months of realizing that there was virtually nothing that I would absently think about that was particularly profound, the question kind of faded away.

I think we are both happier now. Her curiosity has been sated and my daydreaming has been revealed for what it is: inconsequential.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

Hmmm. Not to be difficult, but how do you *know* they are women?

Well... I think I'd notice if my fiancee was a guy.

Alternatively, I've met a few of them at gamedays and other get-togethers.