<p>Oh I enjoyed the funny comments. But I guess I find the scientific studies more illuminating on why the world is the way it is. Which troubles me even when I’m chuckling about something else.</p>
<p>Cheers, </p>
<p>I laughed out loud! Especially reading Mary Killen!</p>
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<p>…and this is unimpeachable because a women’s studies professor has never held a position that conveniently supported the women’s issue of the week before.</p>
<p>The 60’s are over. Does this still pass for scholarship?</p>
<p>The Dad LOL! And I have never remarked to someone on the wheels of a vehicle. “Wow don’t those 17” alloy wheels look great on that car"</p>
<p>I have never gone somewhere in two different shoes.</p>
<p>I have never picked something out of the dirty clothes pile and worn it.</p>
<p>All things that my H has done. And I won’t even talk about doing math problems at the dinner table.</p>
<p>LOL to Cheers and TheDad.</p>
<p>I completely love the line about men wanting girls with the bodies of 12-year-old boys who have had an accident with grapefruits and a stapling gun… SO TRUE!</p>
<p>On a serious note, as a woman who loves male-dominated professions (engineering, law), I just don’t understand men who keep putting women down - like it’s going to stop us. Like it or not, we’re coming - and we’re more educated, driven, and together than you are. Shrewish comments about our supposed lack of intellect isn’t going to save your job. :p</p>
<p>Hey, wait a minute. I thought they were very funny, cheers. I’ve used the grapefruit quote twice so far.</p>
<p>The difference between men and municiple bonds…bonds mature.</p>
<p>Everyone knows there is a difference in the sexes. Male sex life peaks in the late teens, female sex lives peak the night before the engagement.</p>
<p>I feel bad because I have never noticed anyones tires or shoes…I am so confused.</p>
<p>Mr. B:
Don’t feel bad. We realize you’re a health nut, and were concentrating on the grapefruit.</p>
<p>Deb, I’ve never commented on wheels and it’s been years since I had to pluck something out of the laundry to wear again. Otoh, what’s so bad about doing math problems at the dinner table? I confess that I do the bridge problem, sudoku, and crossword puzzle during/after breakfast. In pen. </p>
<p>And somewhere along the line I’ve learned not comment on produce with statements like, “Hey, nice grapefruit!”</p>
<p>Ariesathena:
You go, girl. I’ve got two female demons of my own, and it was <em>nice</em> when they talked about how the boys would come to them asking for help to solve the harder math/science problems.</p>
<p>TheDad:</p>
<p>I think it’s the plural that will land you in trouble. :)</p>
<p>LOL marite</p>
<p>My dad never used the word grapefruit - it was always “mellons.”</p>
<p>Here’s a stereotype - Men are not as petty as women.</p>
<p>women think men should be able to read their mind</p>
<p>because we are so intuitive, we expect everyone else to be as well- but men are clueless
they are too busy picking out fruit apparently ;)</p>
<p>Its I.D. Let it go at that. </p>
<p>I did learn something in biology!</p>
<p>Boys tend to hang around trying to look as if they’re not doing much work, and therefore probably don’t do much work.</p>
<p>Sounds familiar…sounds like architecture school, actually, and the study habits of 70% of the non-Asian high school boys I’ve known. Including two who look an awful lot like…me!</p>
<p>Raise them differently? Who are you kidding, tsdad?</p>
<p>“Of course the sexes are different. I have never had a guy come up to me and say ‘Nice shoes!’”</p>
<p>My sophomore year of college, a male professor for whom I worked once complimented me out of the blue for being “well shod.”</p>
<p>Close enough for horse shoes?</p>
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Thankfully the blustery observations are not on a gender-studies short-leash; regrettably, they are not necessarily funny in spite of their rancor (albeit with a discernable flair for the obvious that is known to illicit chuckles in polite society). </p>
<p>Another take on the issue [serious, with a bit of humor]:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.dartreview.com/archives/2005/10/21/tdr_interview_harvey_mansfield_men_and_manliness_explained.php[/url]”>http://www.dartreview.com/archives/2005/10/21/tdr_interview_harvey_mansfield_men_and_manliness_explained.php</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.dartreview.com/archives/2005/10/21/mansfield_manliness_and_masculinity.php[/url]”>http://www.dartreview.com/archives/2005/10/21/mansfield_manliness_and_masculinity.php</a></p>
<p>UCLAri, where were you when I was dating?</p>
<p>Not even a consideration, I might suspect.</p>
<p>Either way, I can assure you that there are more of me out there. We just tend to eschew the slobs in favor of living our own separate and clean lives.</p>