Gabby Women, Silent Men

The Santa Barbara Independent ^ | Thursday, July 5, 2007 | Michael Seabaugh

[ishabibble]

I JUST LOVE IT!

[yldstrk]

What a load. The men I know are the ones that flap their gums all the time. The women wish the men would just shut up.

[Clam Digger]

You should have read one more line, where he said :Okay, so that was a joke, but the question remains:

[dashing doofus]

One Hillary supporter on the record — “strong silent women” indeed. What a tool. Imagine, people probably pay this guy for advice. LOL.

[Clam Digger]

You crack me up!

[Allegra]

I suppose as a woman who couldn't care less about shoes, sees shopping as a boring chore, has a spotless driving record, has never seen an episode of Melrose Place or any of those other soap opera shows, would rather hang out a a Major League baseball game or an NFL football game sipping beer and second guessing the coaches, and yet is very feminine and loves men (REAL men, anyway), I just see it as silly stereotyping.

Differing opinions happen.

[dashing doofus]

From the article: That was the conclusion of Dr. Janet Hyde, from the University of Wisconsin, who probably knows more about this topic than anybody else. She has done a huge meta analysis on more than 10 years of studies on gender differences in communication style, personality, moral reasoning, and social styles.

"Huge meta analysis". Damn! Obviously, this man is VERY SMART, and this talking thing study is the real deal. One thing: From the guys I know, there is no objection to a woman talking dirty. I wonder if his huge meta analysis covered that...

[Allegra]

You should have read one more line...

I "should have"...?

LOL

[50sDad]

My wife LOVES attentive waitrons. If a girl is at your elbow the entire meal, asking you how things are, if she can get you anything, what else you would like, isn't the sky a lovely shade of blue, who's your favorite author, what's your shoe size...on and on and on, My Dear Wife loves that kind of thing.

For whatever reason, I want to see the waitron when she speedily shows up to ask what I want, and when she brings it, quickly. If I want ketchup and you failed to provide it, I will politely flag you down. Give me a glass of water, and when it is empty, I may ask for more. If the food was bad, I would have said so; I suspect the food will be good, as you are busy. When I need my check, I'll flag you down, and if you aren't hovering over me like a mama bird eager to pre-chew my meal and vomit it down my throat, I will give you a lovely 10-to-15% tip. I came here to eat, not develop a lifelong relationship deeper than I share with my blood relatives, and it is unreasonable for us both to pretend we ware about the intimate details of each other's lives when we are going to leave here and mostly forget about every hollow pleasantry we have been forced to share. Check please.

Likewise, she can meet a hair stylist and in thirty minutes know every tiny fact of her life from how many kids she has to where she goes on vacation. Me? I am here for a haircut; let me read, and if you push hard enough to hit the verbal stonewall that indicates I really don't want to "open up", have the good sense to just cut my hair and get a nice tip while I "enjoy the quiet."

Men aren't women, no matter how eager some women are to try and make it so, and how many blind, Liberal psychologists are to allow it to happen.

[CaptainK]

Chris Matthews and Bill Clinton negate this article.

[50sDad]

One thing: From the guys I know, there is no objection to a woman talking dirty.

You know, you have something there.

[dashing doofus]

Thanks. All angles of this important story need to be fleshed out, so to speak....

[Perdogg]

Now we are talking about talking, aren’t we?

[HEY4QDEMS]

..85 percent of the men said they enjoy the quiet.

Okay, so that was a joke..

That's no joke.

[AFreeBird]

My Dear Wife begins on me: "How's the family? What's his wife doing in her new job? Did they repaint the kitchen?" At this point, I've got nothing.

Let me guess: you got "the look", for not having obtained such information.

[Revolting cat!]

My wife LOVES attentive waitrons.

This reminds me:

Waiter to a Jewish woman customer:

"Is anything all right?"

[dashing doofus]

To be truly enjoyable, the quiet needs to last for at least 25 minutes. ;-)

[Prokopton]

From the guys I know, there is no objection to a woman talking dirty

To who?

[HOTTIEBOY]

At first I thought this article was about bossy women and their submissive men. I kinda threw up in my mouth a little bit when I thought about that.

As for the story ~ there was a chick that told a whole room full of people that her and her husband sit down at dinner every night and discuss something good that happened and something bad that happened that day.

I felt soooo sorry for that guy. I wanted to kill him to put him out of his misery...I couldn’t stand to see him suffer. He also had a pink cardigan on. I took a wild guess as to who picked that out.

[AngryJawa]

Men aren't women, no matter how eager some women are to try and make it so...

Truer words have never been spoken.

'Scuze me while I slip these earplugs back in....ahhhhh...sweet, sweet silence. 8^)