Angela Philipps, Contributor
Having received an email from a male reader recently, I feel that I ought to give his perspective about the faults of women. Here is what he wrote to me, with my spelling and grammar corrections, I might add!
"Angela Philipps, you are nuts. I think you are stereotyping all men when you make out such a list. All men, I don't believe, are that 'bad'. Some, most maybe, but not all! Maybe you can publish another list:
The trouble with women is ...
| 1. | All women want is money ... or its derivatives. |
| 2. | (They) expect men to pay for everything ... dinner, movies, bar bill, etc. |
| 3. | (They) have to have foreplay for hours before getting down to business. |
| 4. | (They) use the toilet and never put the seat back up ... where it belongs. |
| 5. | (They) think men should do the dishes, help cook, help do (the) laundry. |
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... Help to do domestic work ... what! Are you crazy?
| 6. | (They) keep men waiting when the appointed time has come and gone, e.g., pick up for a date. |
| 7. | We don't run a free taxi service (I guess he means women expect a free taxi service!) |
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P.S. Women produce one egg per month, men produce over 300 million sperm per day ... we need to do something with them, nature made us that way."
Well, Mr Man, your points are duly noted. Some gals do want you to pay for 'dates'. It stems from tradition, I suppose, and then there are those who have taken advantage of the situation. I guess that guys must make it clear where they stand on this front. Allow me to add here that we don't ONLY want money love and respect are far more important, even to the lasses who tend to be rather greedy.
And yes, women, in general, do expect and like a little foreplay. But hold on a second, what's wrong with that? Don't you get some enjoyment out of it as well? If we were to do it 'your' way, then the fun would all be over in a matter of seconds - minutes, if we're being generous.
We do, in fact, leave the toilet seat down. Isn't that where it is when we buy the darn thing in the shop? Perhaps one ought to have a policy in one's own house, let your visitors know what it is and leave it at that!
As far as housework is concerned, OF COURSE, we feel that you should be chipping in. Believe it or not, most modern societies, in the likes of Europe, Australia and America, have the same view. I mean, we might be wrong to think that you should WANT to do the dishes, but do you honestly assume that ladies love getting dried-up skin and sores on their hands? Are YOU crazy?
Make you wait for us? Ah, my 'dahling' (as you like to call us sometimes), if I were to add up the hours I have had to hang around for boys, I could have written a couple of books!
And the comment about you not running a free taxi service, would you prefer us to meet you at a specified rendezvous rather than coming for us? That's VERY 21st century of you. And I was beginning to think your opinions were antiquated! Well, some of them anyway. You can't have it both ways. You don't want to pay, or to pick us up? Then do your own laundry, my friend!
Best point
The best part of your points was the last. You had me in stitches for hours, and for that I thank you! However, you really should do a bit of homework: "50 million sperms are discharged during just one ejaculation in a normal healthy male. It can take that many to begin the journey to the vagina, the cervix and on to the Fallopian tubes. From all those millions of sperm only one or two will make it to a mature egg that is ready to be fertilised. Both are known to affect the number and quality of sperm. Intercourse every two to three days helps maintain volume." www.menshealth.about.com/cs/stds/a/healthy_sperm.htm.
And the trouble with women is ... we might just have bought your little story about you needing to do something with all that sperm!
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