I’ve asked some friends about the annoying traits that men have, and have come up with this completely random list. Ofcourse, none of these were my traits since I am so manly – I have transcended manliness and thus have shed these traits behind in my former hairy, smelly, shell – much like Cicadas in the summer. However, for you mortals, I have compiled this list, complete with excuses.
5-whistling and or hollering at women as they walk by
Ok, so yeah – this one is kinda dumb. Fellas, she is no more likely to respond positively with a yell than a hello if she is not into you. Stop messing it up for the next guy by acting like a tool. However, ladies, has it occurred to you that this man – may simply have been admiring your exquisite sense of taste by matching your nail polish cleverly with the subtle colors of your summer dress, and was simply trying to let you know over the sound of the bustling city? No? OK – well had to try.
4-Not giving up the remote control
While this action may come across as domineering and frankly selfish, this act is actually one of selfless desire to please all in the household. Think of it this way. The man in this situation has taken the harsh responsibility of pre-screening all of the channels for the benefit of the entire household. Not only must he stay up late at night to check to make sure that indeed all 50″ of the TV that was just purchase performs up to standard, but his near endless source of tenacity and sticktoitiveness leads him on in shuffling through all 2,000-plus channels just for his family’s benefit. After such an ordeal, why don’t we applaud this man rather than ridicule and wag the finger?
3-Wearing holy undergarments
One word…loyalty. We never abandon those who have been with us in thick and thin and our undies are no exception. Most of us have an unusual, and possibly creepy relationship with our undies. Why ole blue has been with me since college. A little wear and tear won’t cause me to leave him behind – not after all we’ve been through!
2-crotch scratchin’
The fellas must be comfortable at all times…period. There is no pleasure being derived from adjustment. Adjustment is just that…precisly calculated adjustments to ensure said package is at optimum performance and comfort. Anything less would be uncivilized.
1-crotch scratching in public
Did you not read the previous? ALL TIMES…PERIOD! Where there is discomfort there is no shame.
Why are women always bashing us for being penny pinchers? Don’t they know if we hadn’t been pinching pennies in the first place, we wouldn’t be taking them out at all? To me, that’s the sign of a good man. You don’t want some guy buying you all kinds of jewelry and beautiful items cause it means that he’s superficial. Why can’t women just love me for me without eyeing the size of my wallet. I feel like such a slab of meat sometimes! I think their looking at my buttocks, but noooo. They are looking at the wallet!
Now ofcourse this is all nonsense, but the premise is still interesting. Are women being reverse sexist by demanding financial goods from their significant others? A long time ago, there were heavy complaints of guys only wanting women for one thing. They were accused of being shallow and superficial. However, I haven’t heard too much about gold-diggers! All I hear is scientific explanations like women will choose a mate that has the highest probability of protection for child rearing – and other such excuses. Let me know what you guys think!
Not only is The Best Man one of my favorite films, but it also (in my opinion at least) sits atop the seemingly growing pantheon of contemporary “black cinema”—alongside such films as Love & Basketball, Brown Sugar, Love Jones, etc.—aimed at depicting on the silver screen the real world triumphs and successes, trials and tribulations of twenty and thirty-something African-Americans.
The film’s main character, Harper (Taye Diggs), comes home on the heels of the debut release of his autobiographical first novel to serve as the best man in his friend Lance’s (Morris Chestnut) wedding.Needless to say, the lines between fact and fiction are soon blurred and the very real secrets hidden in Harper’s novel threaten not only to upend the wedding but put an end to the men’s friendship altogether.
For all of us who’ve seen the film—and certainly for all of us men, I think—one of the scenes that instinctively sticks out in memory would have to be the “poker night scene,” in which all four male leads, Harper, Lance, Quentin (Terrance Howard) and Julian (Harold Perrineau), gather together to discuss their views on life, work and women.It’s during this scene that Quentin, raging against the idea of monogamy in general, and marriage more specifically, states, “If God intended for us to be with just one woman, he wouldn’t have given us all this sperm, and these bitches wouldn’t outnumber us the way they do.”
Some of us howled.Others shook their heads in astonishment.Still others recoiled in disgust.No matter your reaction, though, if you’re a guy, you’ve more than likely been privy to similar conversations; free-flowing discussions where men “let fly” about what it is we’re really thinking.Indeed, sometimes it can seem like we men are so consumed with figuring out what the opposite sex is looking for in their ideal Mr. Right, it’s all too easy for us to loose sight of what we could and/or should be looking for in our ideal Ms. Right.
So how about it, fellas?What exactly are we looking for?More important, why is it so seemingly difficult for us to find it (or her)?Here are some common pitfalls as I see it:
“All that glitters isn’t gold.”Sure we all know this, but we men certainly loose sight of it when looking for Ms. Right, can’t we?Where women are concerned, some of us men can’t seem to think straight.Sometimes we’re so enamored with those “Perfect 10’s” in the looks department that we loose track of the fact that some women might be sorely lacking in other categories (i.e. intelligence, personality, etc.)This is a tough one, I’ve got to admit. Trust me, I’m a guy—I know.But my advice? “Keep it in your pants” and “look before you leap” before you “put a ring on it.
Will our eyes always be bigger than our stomachs?If you’re wondering what category Quentin (and guys like him) would likely fall into, I’d say this one’s a safe bet.They just can’t get enough.More, more, and more is what they’re after.Sure I understand that we don’t want to be impulse buyers and “make an honest woman” out of the first woman we happen to have feelings for, but it seems that some of us guys have several women on our plate and several others waiting in the wings (i.e. “on the back burner”).Unfortunately, the fact of the matter is we’re simply not built to maintain this kind of pace.We’re ultimately destined to burn out.What’s worse, in not focusing enough attention on quality, we run the risk of sacrificing our potential Ms. Right in the name of quantity.
But she cooks like Big Momma.It’s said that we all want a woman that’s like our mother.Sure we can all understand this.Our mothers clothed us.They fed us.They nutured us.They’re the “apple of our eye.”But more than one guy’s fallen into the trap of picking a woman that reminds him of his mother.On the surface there might not seem like much is wrong with this.On the surface.The problem?For better or worse, a woman’s not supposed to be like our mothers.For one thing, that same attribute of taking charge and laying down the law that made our mothers the matriarch of our family, if you think about it, can soon become insufferable if it starts coming from the woman who’s supposed to be our life partner.
The “good girl” paradox.I don’t know why this is, but as often as we men claim to want a “nice girl,” there’s just something about those bad girls that seriously seems to get our motors running.We all know how to spot a “man eater” and/or “gold digger” when we see one, yet something in us stupidly encourages us to conquer that insurmountable mountain known as the bad girl.We know that good girls are trustworthy, dependable, caring, etc., so why do we do it?Who knows.We’re massachists, I suppose.
Ultimately, it seems that many of the reasons we men have problems finding our special someone is similar to the reasons our opposite sex counterparts experience difficulty.In short, there’s an inexplicable disconnect between what we want (or at least what we say we want) in our eventual partners and the process by which we meet them.(I mean, you wouldn’t go fishing with a shotgun, am I right?)So what’s the answer?I say we all should be more like Quentin.Why’s that, you ask?Because although he’s an unabashed misogynist, at least he’s honest about what he’s after.And disagree with him as you might (and believe me, I do) you’ve got to respect the guy’s willingness to speak his own truth.
