a friend forwarded me an article from a Boston free magazine this week. she sent me this because it would get under my skin and i would send some email in reply. she knows her audience well. after writing and rereading my email, i thought that you might enjoy it.
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This is in response to your One Man's List article. After taking five minutes to read the utter trash, it is my opinion that the writer was confused for a baby seal and beat across the head until he was severely retarded. The writer states, "...I'll also try to make this a little more informative than the typical 'uhhuhuhhuhhuh, guys like sex and sports and beer' column that every collegiate sex columnist...". It is safe to say he utterly failed at this goal. I can sum up his list of 17 items into three things: 1. I like sports 2. I am a self-centered ass who demands all the attention and 3. I like sex. In his defense, he did forget the beer part.
The most disturbing part of the article is point number three. I puked a little in my mouth when he writes about liking Kim Cattrall's tits. I am dumbfounded how someone can find an ancient, leather skinned woman like Kim Cattrall that attractive. If you want an attractive version of Kim Cattrall, he would have to watch Porkie's, Police Academy or Mannequin. Clearly, Kristin Davis had the best body on that show, if you didn't cover Sarah Jessica Parker's head with a bag.
To points eight and seventeen, the writer clearly doesn't understand the irony, not the Alanis Morissette kind, of these two items. He asks women to humor men when they have an unrealistic sports fantasy. However, he is not able to humor us when we feel not so attractive and in need of a compliment to feel better about ourselves.
He continues with the contradictions in points nine and sixteen. Although, it may not be a contradiction as much as not knowing what communication means. Communication is the exchange of ideas, not listening for keywords. The vast majority of men communicate verbally about as well as a three year old hopped up on sugar and Coke. Most men who do communicate verbally are gay or so metro sexual that we are convinced they are gay. As for the problem solving, there are times in both sexes lives when a person wants to vent. The only solution to the problem is to let us talk.
I won't comment on every point to make this shorter. Nevertheless, I have some points to make. Yes, women take too long to get ready sometimes. We like to look good for you, or don't you want the guys in the room to be jealous of you because the hottie is on your arm and not theirs. For an article that isn't supposed to be about guys liking sex, you mention sex in six of the seventeen points. Women and men both hate clingy people. I am reminded of the scene in Swingers where Jon Favreau calls Heather Graham. If we like you, we don't want to seem clingy and scare you off. If you want us to know something about sports, you must know something about an interest of ours. You cannot complain when we want to do a girlie thing when we watch sports with you.
Relationships, which I assume the writer wants, are about give and take. They are about understanding. It is clear he has little of both. It is no wonder he is left to write a misguided approach to "help" women understand men. If he has trouble understanding this email, maybe he should grab one of those bags and use it.
- miss wolfe