I don't have a vagina so I am not sure if this should be considered insulting to women. To me it just seems hysterically accurate.
One of my personal favorites, that a man would NEVER say, is "Let's talk about us."
In my experience that is the precursor to "I don't ever want to see you again!"
But here's the thing:
I have been married twice.
I was raised by a single mother.
I have a daughter of my very own.
And I have worked predominantly with women all of my life.
Yet I still see the female gender as a rare and exotic species, of whom I still possess very little understanding.
WTF?
(H/T to Andrew Sullivan.)
Whereas I was have four brothers and raised two sons,and STILL don't understand men.Although,I do find myself defending men in general when a group of women start trash talking guys.Used to wish I was a boy when I was a kid,but after I grew up and became a mom,I realized being a female is so much better. I am allowed to express my thoughts and feelings freely whenever I want. And,as the daughter of an early feminist,I know I am capable of whatever I want to achieve. Except maybe writing my name in the sand while peeing. But,I can live with that lack of skill:)
ReplyDeleteNot an insult...just plain funny.
ReplyDeleteIt's true, Gryph. Lord help those who can only fist bump.
ReplyDeleteYou need to do O'Donnell's piece on Trump tonight and, likewise, Queen Esther won't either! Her followers are BLIND, it's comical.
C'mon grifter, RUN like your Recsonider Movement wants you to! DARE YOU. The big fly swatter's out!
I suggest Deborah Tannen's book, You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation.
ReplyDeleteI recently got an old (1990) copy being discarded from a library, and I agree completely with a review comment on the back cover that calls it the Rosetta stone for finally deciphering and understanding the opposite sex. It's amazing.
I don't get it, the main "woman" is played by a man.
ReplyDeleteSome things men will never say: (1) I can't fix this; (2) I'm lost.
What Anne said, minus one brother.
ReplyDeleteYeh, I feel the same way about guys. I was married once, and I still have no clue who he really was. To be fair, he is probably telling someone the same thing about me.
ReplyDeleteI should have added something. Go to YouTube and query "Tale of Two Brains." Watch the longer version with the most hits. This really explains it all. Hysterical. ROFLMAO
ReplyDeleteI saw this video earlier today and it did make me laugh (I'm female). I thought it accurately depicted a certain type of female; thankfully, not all females.
ReplyDeleteMore than one man has told me I am not a regular woman. Whatever that means. Seemed to mean I did not fit their image of what a woman is. I cannot envision myself saying any of the things on your video, or for that matter being in any situation pictured. Maybe that's it?
ReplyDeleteThing is, everybody is different. If you are trying to pigeonhole or otherwise understand women as a category, maybe that's your difficulty.
When I saw this on Sullivan's site, it made me think it was something Steve Harvey would produce.
ReplyDeleteI know he's a comedian, but I'm sick of seeing his appearances pimping his book. I added him long ago to my list of someone who is and is profiting from dumbing down women. Sadly, what is worse, is those women that bought into it.
The 1st time a woman told me I have beautiful hands,I realized I would never understand women.Beautiful HANDS??? Really?
ReplyDeleteWakeUpAmerica said...
ReplyDeleteI should have added something. Go to YouTube and query "Tale of Two Brains." Watch the longer version with the most hits. This really explains it all. Hysterical. ROFLMAO
9:01 PM
Here's the full hour...OMG, I'm laughing my ass off, you're absolutely correct, hysterical. Thank you so much for the heads up!
Tail of Two Brains
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhB0IM0P3GI
Well, in the first fucking place, no mature woman calls herself a girl (unless she doesn't mind being belittled).
ReplyDeleteI can honestly say I don't know any women who act that way. Guess I hang around with real women, not "girls".
Going into my eighth decade of being born female.
I do understand men. Unfortunately, there's not a whole there to understand.
ReplyDeletelwtjb, my husband says the same thing about me. He says I am the only woman he has ever met who thinks like a man. I am not sure what that exactly means but I was raised to think for myself, be independent, and if something needed doing just fucking do it. Don't ask, just accomplish. If it is wrong, take responsibility. Don't whine and above all else, be dignified.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure other women were raised to be the son their fathers never had, but that's how I was brought up. I was not brought up to use my sexuality to manipulate or cajole a man into giving me what I want or need. I was brought up to go get it myself.
@9:05 Me too - "not a regular woman". In fact, I'm a 50-something engineer and have always worked with men. Women on the engineering faculty like to joke that the men in liberal arts are more "feminine" than we are; we tend to be practical, don't mind getting into a shouting match- and then shake hands and say ok when it's over. We don't whine. I see the world as techies and non-techies, of either gender.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I am married to a great guy (a social scientist) with kids and grandkids so yeah I really am a woman.
It's OK Gryphen, just keep quite and do what we say, you don't need to understand, we got it handled.
ReplyDeleteThat was funny!
ReplyDeleteAren't most of your blog readers women? Maybe you're some sort of estrogen magnet. LOL!
That was pretty damn funny. Most of it seemed as exotic to me as it did to you, Gryph. I'm not much of a girl's girl. I don't watch chick flicks, don't like to shop, don't use a cell phone, don't like shoes...But the chip-eating scene resonated. lol.
ReplyDeleteOMG! I LOVE this blog - you come up with some funny shit. I'm a woman and I laughed out loud watching it. Because it's true. And we wouldn't have it any other way. BTW - Your daughter is a lucky young lady to have you for a dad. You have such a great sense of humor and I devote WAY too much time reading this blog everyday.
ReplyDeleteLove ya!
For the sake of EVERY eardrum within a 50 mile radius Gryphen, PLEASE give a warning before posting a video with women screaming at 40,000 Hz!!!
ReplyDelete:)
I'm not a girly woman either, but I thought that was damn funny! I'm 42 and it reminds me of some women in their 20's (or older ones trying to act young and cute). And, the guy playing the girl was awesome!
ReplyDeleteWhy Men and Women Can't Be Friends:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_lh5fR4DMA&feature=youtu.be
I don't think it was insulting. I thought is was pretty funny. I am a female and I'm not one of those fussy/fru-fru women, they annoy the hell out of me.
ReplyDeleteThe main character is actually a man - Graydon Sheppard.
ReplyDeleteFor those who haven't seen this:
ReplyDeleteHER DIARY
Sunday night I thought he was acting weird. We had made plans to meet at a bar to have a drink. I was shopping with my friends all day long, so I thought he was upset at the fact that I was a bit late, but he made no comment.
Conversation wasn't flowing so I suggested that we go somewhere quiet so we could talk, he agreed but he kept quiet and absent. I asked him what was wrong - he said, "Nothing." I asked him if it was my fault that he was upset. He said it had nothing to do with me and not to worry.
On the way home I told him that I loved him, he simply smiled and kept driving. I can't explain his behavior; I don't know why he didn't say, "I love you, too."
When we got home I felt as if I had lost him, as if he wanted nothing to do with me anymore. He just sat there and watched T.V.; he seemed distant and absent.
Finally I decided to go to bed. About 10 minutes later he came to bed and to my surprise he responded to my caress and we made love, but I still felt that he was distracted and his thoughts were somewhere else.
I decided that I could not take it anymore, so I decided to confront him with the situation but he had fallen asleep. I started crying and cried until I too fell asleep. I don't know what to do. I'm almost sure that his thoughts are with someone else. My life is a disaster.
HIS DIARY
The Phillies lost today, but at least I got laid.
OK, the only one that applied to me (female) was: "I hate trying on clothes." ( and only applied to jeans and bathing suits) Every one of the other ones - EXCEPT the squealing ones, which no ADULT, male or female, does (because we don't hang with middle schoolers as friends - that's what we TEACH) - I can attribute to my husband. He watched it. He agrees.
ReplyDeletePlayed for male and female co-workers.
Also agree that the computer cluelessness is a MALE thing, (if there weren't women at my school, we'd be using pencils and grey tablets for everything - I honestly don't know any male who knows more about technology than the most technologically illiterate female I know).
Friend/relationship anxiety is certainly a male thing (guys are WAY more concerned about what friends think than women are)
Guys are WAY more neurotic about relationships and technology than women. It's a Mars thing. Guys always need a HUGE favor...though they don't say it that way.
No woman I know eats the chips (junk food)....but that is what our guys do..we are the ones saying,"Please don't buy/eat the junk food."
Maybe the video was a parody???
Could it be that husband and I and many friends/coworkers are teachers???
I am mystified!
hey, anon @3:37 pm..
ReplyDeleteyou have to be kidding me, right?
saying this??
" I honestly don't know any male who knows more about technology than the most technologically illiterate female I know"
The VAST majority of us are MALE in tech hardware, routers, servers, networking, gaming, and general PC/mac/Linux repair and config.
Somewhat less of a majority in DBA, development, and hard core stuff like firmware, but still dominant in industry.