Sunday, January 28, 2007

Men are defective women !

From what I've gathered from my friendships with the opposite gender, previous relationships and the stories I hear from my married mates, I came to a certain conclusion ! We men generally believe that we are “different” from women "erm well done Freud", whereas women generally believe that us men are “defective” women.

Most gender related differences seems to be due to us males preferring to categorize thoughts while women think everything is somehow connected. Here are some phrases you will NEVER hear from women:

“I didn’t wrap your present because you’d just throw away the wrapping anyway.”

“Let’s skip Valentine’s Day this year so we don’t miss Prison Break.”

“Mohammed just died? Huh. What’s for dinner?”

No guy would ever say those things around a women either, but not because he isn’t thinking them. We guys have learned how to blend in and talk like women when it’s necessary. It feels like being a German spy during World War II and you’re always worried someone will ask you a question about the Americans.

If you’re male you have to do a lot of internal editing before you let anything come out of your mouth. The best way to filter is to ask yourself how a woman would react to what you’re about to say. Here’s a little test to see if you know how this works.

Suppose a male sees a car that’s an ugly green "Like the Honda CRXs over here" and he goes “That is one ugly car!” to his friend. Now, match the friend’s gender with the most likely response:

A. “Holy $%#*&, that color is just wrong for a car.”

B. Silence, while thinking “He hates my green sweater.”

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Blogger JoeBlogs said...

Interesting perception, I think we do have to ediit what we say to women to some extent. THough Ill normally say nothing.

7:17 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Should there be any defection, then men are as defective as men can be, and women are as defective as women can be.

9:32 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Moe,
We all have our + & - points, regardless of gender. The way we are brought up and the people that we mix around with mostly influenced a lot in our life.

9:27 AM

 
Blogger Munther said...

Joe: First of all let me welcome you to our blog. Now to the subject of the post, well mate I'd have to agree with what you said , I think that sometimes we need to edit some of our thoughts while with women, but I'd have to say saying nothing is a major step in becoming the ultimate women's companion ! :D

H.: Touche ;) I seriously don't know what to say H. ! :D And this is so not me, I think that I've found my match ! :D Welcome to our blog H.

amoontie: Thats true my dear friend, but I think that you've misunderstood me here:), the main reason of this topic is to show my view of the "Women are from venus and men are from mars" assumption, saying that I do agree with you we are influenced by many things including the environment we were brought up at ! :)

7:40 PM

 
Blogger Um Naief said...

this blog post confuses me... i wonder if that's a bad thing or a good thing! ;)

i've never thought of men as women... i guess always knowing that they're weird little creatures! ;0 heheheh

so.. if your w/ a female, then is the answer B? if so, i didn't think men ever thought like that.

9:49 PM

 
Blogger Munther said...

Sorry tooners, the title was misleading, I'll have to change it, it is quite confusing, isn't it ?

But what I meant by us men being defective women is, due to us men learning to say what women want us to say when it’s necessary, we became defective women. ;) Does this make sense to you ?

And regarding your pick, will obviously you'd never hear a guy going "he hates my sweater" or would you ? ;) the whole post was to show how different we think gender wise

1:01 AM

 
Blogger Um Naief said...

ok, now it makes sense. and no, i've never heard a guy say anything like "i wonder if he likes my sweater"... altho, i've known some guys who are gay and i'm sure they say things like that to each other... ;)

sadly, i think men do tend to say what they think women want to hear and i'm not convinced that's a good thing. i'd much rather have the truth... even tho i might not like it. for instance, now that i'm preggers, instead of having my husband ooohhh and aaaahhh over me, i'm glad he laughs and tells me how fat i am. cuz, i know i'm fat.. no sense hiding it or pretending otherwise. you know? but... in saying this, i think there are TONS of women who'd rather hear the complete opposite and would be devastated at the thought of hearing the truth.

shoot, even when i wasn't pregnant, and i'd ask my husband how i look in a particular outfit or how my hair looked, i'd rather have the truth... not some lie to try and tide me over. who wants to go out and about looking like crap.

9:19 AM

 
Blogger Gaz said...

Hiya fella,i think its down to respect how you talk to ppl,like if theirs a girl present then guys will watch their p's and q's

1:24 PM

 
Blogger Sarah said...

hahah! i love this post! What a great title too.. Men ARE defective women!!! hahahah you pinned it down. See I know i complain about how my husband should and should not say things. He is a such a say it like it is kinda person. Sometimes the truth hurts, most of the time its the most comforting thing to have someone around who doesnt tip-e-toe around my ears.

But I just love the "defective woman" theory. Bc, we women generally try to explain to men why its right or wrong to say a certain thing, or do a certain thing (be it your mom, gf, wife, sister.. whatever) It's like there is constant female training for men, and its TRUE.. if women thought men were perfect just the way they were, then I think we would leave them be, and have them say whatever, do whatever they want. And when this training is happening, who are we comparing men to? Ourselves! We are trying to make them do/say things that WE would normally do or say. We are taught to be polite, sensitive, thoughtful...

In the end. We love our men and they love us BECAUSE of how different we are. If every woman had a man that said or did the right thing all the time. Life would just be a bore!

3:23 PM

 
Blogger Munther said...

Very old school Scouse there gaz ! ;) But yeah this is true, we tend to tame our language in front of women; we have too; or they'll discover the truth about us ! :D

3:23 PM

 
Blogger Munther said...

And Sarah, your comment gets the full mark, your views are spot on and it was exactly "this" what I was looking for ! Whenever someone writes about the Men vs Women topic he/she are always looking at the differences as a negative, while I, well I was trying to celebrate these differences and air my views that these differences are in fact what attracts us to each other ! Thumbs up my friend ! ;)

3:57 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ahhhh. I like this post. Although if that were my husband and I, I would be thinking A) if he said something like that! But maybe that's because I've always been kind of like a man.. with long hair and a large assortment of shoes and cosmetics. Hey, it works.

I'm with tooners, I'd rather hear the truth anyway, and I know I successfully look good when I ask him and about an outfit and we never end up going anywhere. And besides, if he never tells me the truth, who will let me know I'm getting too fat? :)

10:36 AM

 

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