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He Says:
Everybody has their little quirks. These are the strange, silly things that we do that other people simply do not understand. Some quirks are peculiar to men and others to women. For us men, there are things that women do that baffle us completely, things so bizarre that they defy explanation. So join me as I wade into these murky waters, for the truth, some have said, is out there…
She Says:
The men are always going, “oh we just don’t understand women.. they are
too complicated!”
Yeah right, these men should just give us a break for
many a time, it is their bizarre behaviour that brings out some of our
most absurd reactions. After all, haven’t they heard that every effect
has its cause? We women have shown such love, affection and
understanding towards men while they whine and complain over the
littlest bit of supposedly weird behaviour of ours, so it is now time to
defend ourselves as we open the eyes of the world to some of the
strangest, most ridiculous habits of men. Proving that the world will
be a better place when women dominate.
On Food
He Says:
Women have a schizophrenic relationship with food. They seem to love it
and hate it at the same time. For men, the thought process for eating
is summed up by “Me hungry. Eat now. Food go in mouth”. Not so with
women.
They seem to approach the act of eating with a great deal of
thought. Women don’t eat even if they’re hungry, because they want to
lose weight and be thin. I suppose this is the pernicious influence of
Hollywood and the beauty magazines that infest the corner-store
shelves. The images of women in the media are all of skinny waifs and,
again I’m presuming, that many women feel the need to live up to this
utopia (or dystopia).
As if this is not strange enough, women eat when they’re not hungry.
This is the “comfort food” thing, where women eat to make themselves
feel better. Ben & Jerry’s, Hersheys and Godiva are some of the
accomplices in this little affair.
Men find this strange and rather disturbing. If you’re hungry, then
eat! Food is not a sin to be shunned. There’s no need to be as thin as
the beauty magazine models. Frankly, those models sometimes look like
they need emergency food infusions. Not sexy.
As for the comfort
eating, that’s even stranger. Didn’t you just say you wanted to be
thin? So how is eating more going to make you feel better? Once again -
weird.
She Says:
Now, we eat to live and some people live to eat, whatever it is, as
long as we have eaten our fill, we are all satisfied human beings. Men
do not seem to get this and they like to order exorbitant amounts of
food. They claim to be fearful that the hunger pangs may strike in the
middle of the night.
Yes, seeing as how some countries are suffering
from famine, we should be thankful that we have food to eat. But it is
precisely this appreciation we women have, that makes us not want to
see a large amount of leftovers on the dining table. Besides guys, your
girlfriends are not sows you have to fatten up for sale.
On Beauty
He Says:
Another weird thing about women is the beauty treatments.
Women have an
immense variety of beauty regimens and products that would put a
chemist to shame. There are bath oils, shower creams, the
glow-in-the-dark white stuff that you smear on your faces that makes
you look like a vampire and frighten us to death when you wander about
the house with it on…
Then there are mud packs. Apparently, slathering yourself with mud is
good for the skin, or something.
So you have women, who ordinarily
would not go near a field for fear of getting dirty, covering
themselves with mud, and paying for it! This is surreal to men. I mean,
paying to wallow in mud? You could do that for free.
 She Says:
Men do not admit it but behind closed doors, they are experimenting
with beauty products. They call us women, paranoid, excessive spending
creatures on facial products because one bar of soap should suffice for
all the cleaning there is to be done, but they sneak into Guardian’s to
buy a Loreal mask for men when they think no one’s looking.
There is
absolutely nothing wrong with taking care of yourselves and looking
good for the world. So stop sneaking around...
If there is one thing
guys do not do, it’s admitting that women are right, and in this case, it
takes a real man to acknowledge that there is truth in our beauty
regime. Guys, just a tip, you’ll have better luck with girls when you bare your
souls (but not too much).
He Says:
Probably the weirdest thing that women do (that I know of) is planning
their weddings long before it happens.
Some women I know have their
wedding details down to a timetable. Everything is perfect in this
little plan, from the cake to the ceremony to the guests. Men find this
a little frightening, because women tend to get very uptight about
this.
For men, we never think about our weddings until it happens. Even
when it does, we sometimes don’t think about it. I mean, what’s there
to think about? You get dressed, show up, say the words and that’s
that.
For women, a wedding is of paramount importance. They talk about
having a dream wedding, a perfect wedding. For men, it's just another
function that you have to wear that uncomfortable suit for.
She Says:
Teachers have always expounded the fact that planning for the future
provides one’s life with stability, and it is always enriching to have
goals so that we can work towards what we want in life. Isn't it self-fulfilling?
Once again, the men just do not get it. They prefer to
live for the moment and die the next, when a failure of some sort hits
them in their face, only to leave them with the ability to rant and
rave like a lunatic because they have absolutely no idea how to go
about salvaging the situation.
So yes, we women like to plan for the
future and even day-dream about our weddings with all its extravagant
decorations and decadent food, but at least we know what we want in
life.
How is it that men always brush things off with “I don’t know” to everything,
including questions regarding their career? The lack of ambitions is
what drives women away from the Singaporean males and they dare lament
that we women have high expectations! Hello! Please wake up and smell
the coffee!
To Conclude...Or Not.
He Says:
There are things that women do which, to a man, just make no sense.
Nevertheless, I think it would be missing the point completely to try
and ‘make sense’ of those things. Part of understanding another person,
be it man or woman, is to accept that there will be differences, and to
embrace those differences. Anyway, if we all did things that made
sense, the world would be an awfully boring place.
She Says:
Hang on a second, we are not done yet!
How about those computer games that the men are so
hooked onto that they can spend every waking moment in front of their
computers or as technology becomes more advanced, their fingers seem
glued to their PSPs and Nitendo DS lites.
We all know that all work and
no play makes Jack a dull boy, but all play and no work? Especially in
front of the computers, I’m sure Jack is going to be as blind as a bat
in time to come.
The boyfriend bought me a PSP for my birthday and the
reason behind it, he said, was just so I can get over the fact that he
is a gaming addict and join him in his pursuit of some resident evil of
a particular game.
But really, all I want to do is to dismantle the
machine and see just what hardware the machine makers have installed
into these hand-helds for they seem to emanate a strong magnetic
sphere around men that they can't seem to get out of.
These are some of the things that we women think, are weird habits of
men. It is perhaps our time to tell them that they are impossible to
understand, no matter how hard we try. But we will keep trying, reaching
out for whatever hope there is to grasp onto, in the faith that, things
will get better (or more fathomable). hooked
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I am just bored...
Written by Guest on 2008-02-26 20:46:04
Hi, every month, I read this column. And I am a guy.
And every month I read this thing, I find that not a single attribute of the "guy" side has ever applied to me. Perhaps I don't have enough testosterone; I do not know.
Basically, I think there should be more insightful articles in this section which are also funny. | Not totally true...
Written by Guest on 2008-02-26 21:12:23
Well guess what? The expectations of local women are indeed high. And it's not that men don't have ambitions, but women just always seems to like to spot mistakes even when their men are already working his socks off to make her happy. | and the guy is weird because....
Written by Guest on 2008-02-27 09:51:56
How come the only thing mentioned about guy's weird habits is at the end? The whole article seems like a campaign to look into the private lives of women and defend it. There's nothing to show that guys are equally odd as us! | Written by Guest on 2008-02-27 21:27:57
There's alot of stereotyping going on... | Term test
Written by Guest on 2008-03-01 01:06:31
just finished one mid term. kinda of bored. anyway, stereotyping aside. certain segments of local girls DO indeed have overly high expectations. and did i say "certain segments".
you should recall one of the (24th feb) sunday time's life segment on local women, and the survey results.
and wow. "If those are the most important items on most people's date checklists, then the human race is doomed" - Dr IIya Farber, assistant professor of social science and philosophy on the survey results.
so now can't we all keeps things simple and realistic? SPGs and hunks aside... maybe its time to GET REAL!! =] | Written by shippoCY88 on 2008-03-01 11:05:40
Funnily enough, even though I'm female, I find myself agreeing with the guy in this column. I mean, some of the things he said applies to me as well, and I think he has a point... | Written by Guest on 2008-03-02 00:01:58
i think ppl just don't get the basis of these columns.. they are meant to be biased because it's to showcase ONE person's opinion. columns are not meant to be fair and justified for both genders.
that said, not too bad an article. |
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