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I remember my wife asked me years ago, "Hey, get any compliments on your bald head?" It was a drastic change, shaved head. She thought it fit my style. At the time, I only worked with guys. She looked amazed and shocked when I laughingly replied, "Are you serious? Doubt anyone noticed." She thought I was heartbroken but in reality I would have been surprised if anyone did compliment.
Contrary to popular belief, we adult men talk about sex like 5% of the time. We, too, have hobbies and dreams.
That most of us don't have the type of friend system where you just go to someone and emotionally vent about your problems. Any problem you have must be solved in silence. Even today men who never ever complain are praised like they are super human.
Playing hard to get ? No, we're not gonna pursue you. We're just going to think you're uninterested and we will move on.
My girlfriend and I watched Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel last night. In the beginning, two of the main characters are working at a theme park, handing out coupons to the Dinoburger restaurant at the park, whilst dressed as dinosaurs. The two get in an argument about how it doesn't make any sense that they are dressed as dinosaurs claiming they should really be dressed as cavemen.
My girlfriend had a hard time grasping that this was a pretty acurate portrail of how conversations in groups of guys usually go. A semantic debate about things that are both simple and completely insignificant. We'll debate about things that have nothing to do with our lives and leave the conversation having gained essentially nothing.
I also explained that these debates don't end when the one individual conversation is over. Next time we're together, we'll pick it up right where we left off. Over the course of about three months my friends and I went through a quite serious debate over the character of Tom Bombadil and his weight and impact on the world of Lord of the Rings. Actually most of our conversations come back to lord of the rings. But she just couldn't understand how that would in any way be entertaining. Truth be told, we don't stop to think if it would be entertaining, it just happens and everyone participates.
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That photos of the sign is awesome!
We LIKE eating alone in a restaurant.
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God yes! No wife or girlfriend eating off your plate or insisting that both "share" a "taste" of each others food..
That we actually worry about the women in our life.
Feminists have taught too many of them our mind is only on the next beer or the next game.
Yea, I think they would be surprised how little we talk about sex in a real way. We make plenty of jokes about it, but few of us want to share our real sexual lives, desires or experiences with other guys. It almost never comes up. That fact combined with the one where we think about it continuously seems hard to reconcile, but that's how it is. I think sex is much more personal for most men than for most women.
I think women don't understand how much their respect means to us. Like complimenting her on her appearance, we really crave the admiration of women close to us. With that at our backs we are fearless.
How unimportant large breasts are to most of us. I think that's true, but we actually don't talk about it much, so it may just be me.
Yeah, that's one of the great things about men. We don't bore each other with our love lives. If you've ever had a female co-worker cry on your shoulder about her love life - you'll understand.
But that's how women bond, they talk about their families and their love Lives and also their clothes and cooking and whatever.
Men usually talk about politics, the stock market, sports, and work.
Men pee standing up.
The assumption/belief that women would be surprised by these answers.
I think many women would be surprised to learn how damn hard men have to work in order to keep their jobs and contend for promotions.
Boners.
virgil, So many woman have told me they feel uncomfortable/insecure eating alone in a restaurant. Many are professional women. I know of no man who feels that way.
Put me down as a woman who is not uncomfortable or insecure eating alone in a restaurant. I do, however, prefer to sit at a table, as that sends the signal that I am not looking to engage in conversation with another patron.
Check out the number of women to men sitting at the bar eating, in restaurants and in bars. While YMMV, I observe more men sitting on bar stools to eat or drink than women.
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