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Are Men Boring?
The Telegraph ^
| 11 June 2008
| Sabine Durrant
Posted on 06/11/2008 9:29:21 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
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Typical male strengths - focus, dedication, self-belief - might thrust men up the ladder at work and lead them to do most of the talking in certain contexts - in meetings, in Parliament, in the law courts, in tutorials, in panel discussions on television: contexts in which conversation has a purpose.
So basically, she is saying that men talk about things that matter, while women don't?
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
I am very boring. Ask my wife.
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posted on
06/11/2008 9:31:24 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
That’s funny, I was just about to ask that question of my cat.
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
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posted on
06/11/2008 9:33:41 AM PDT
by
fml
(So?)
To: Conspiracy Guy
Sometimes I wonder why mine keeps me ‘round.
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Yes. Yes, we are.
Next question.
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posted on
06/11/2008 9:35:40 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Friends with umbrellas are outstanding in the rain.)
To: The_Media_never_lie
My wife keeps me around to help her feel even more superior.
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posted on
06/11/2008 9:37:21 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
to discover when and why men started boring for Britain Not all men are boring for Britain, you know.
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posted on
06/11/2008 9:40:16 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: fml
Mine used to probe for some kind of depth. I explained that I’m just not that deep. She didn’t buy it, we’re divorcing in August. Next time it’s with a pre-nup. Hey at least we can learn.
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posted on
06/11/2008 9:40:41 AM PDT
by
east1234
(It's the borders stupid!)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
I tried to ask my Wife this very question, but she fell asleep before I could finish it.
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posted on
06/11/2008 9:41:37 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Average White Conservative)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Recent research shows there are essential differences in the functioning of the male and female brain. Stop the presses! News Flash!
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posted on
06/11/2008 9:42:07 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
“Recent research shows there are essential differences in the functioning of the male and female brain.”
It took them how long to figure this out?
Men are not “boring” for the most part, they just don’t talk the way women do. Ladies, quit trying to turn your man into one of your girlfriends!
Generally speaking, and this is very general, women talk to connect, while men talk to convey. When a man and woman are talking to each other, they often might as well be speaking different languages. Keep that in mind, and quit judging your man by woman’s standards. He’s not a woman.
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posted on
06/11/2008 9:46:32 AM PDT
by
Ellendra
(If you do not like the values of the west -see the first amendment- you are free to leave.)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
by the same token I’ve heard it said that women are only good for three things!...that being said whats the point here?
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posted on
06/11/2008 9:46:40 AM PDT
by
jrd
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
“In the car afterwards, I asked my partner”
Why does it seem that everyone in Britain has a “partner”?
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posted on
06/11/2008 9:49:23 AM PDT
by
caver
(Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
To: Hegemony Cricket
men are not boring. This woman is defining “solutions” contrasted with “hourse of endless whining” as boring.
pissing and moaning rather than seeking solutions is pointless. It is appropriate a member of the dinosaur media is comming to this conclusion.
She forgets that business men have slowly abandoned their primitive form of information transmission to better means.
I bet the readership of the paper has shifted dramatically to majority women.
It is all about the operational definition. This woman is defining “interesting” as being a bull dyke feminist type.
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posted on
06/11/2008 9:50:45 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Ellendra
Men don’t like to talk about work at home, why do women think we want to listen about their work at home.
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posted on
06/11/2008 9:52:38 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
( This tag blank until football season.)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
So basically, she is saying that men talk about things that matter, while women don't?If she isn't, she should be because it's generally true. A lot of husbands are simply worn down by the incessant chatter and nagging and therefore become "boring".
A fitting corollary to this would be "men only listen to things that matter, while women won't shaddup about things that don't"
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posted on
06/11/2008 9:52:48 AM PDT
by
AngryJawa
({IDPA, NRA} All Hail John Moses Browning)
To: caver
for the same reason california HAS outlawed “mother” and “father”. They are trying to extinguish the fact homosexuality is ONLY ABOUT recreational sex.
If her “partner” is not a woman, he should be for being eunach enough to date this feminist schrew.
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posted on
06/11/2008 9:55:09 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: longtermmemmory
Hehehe - I don’t really believe we are, either. Abrupt answers are just my knee-jerk reaction to stupid vacuous questions like that... :-)
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posted on
06/11/2008 9:55:35 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Friends with umbrellas are outstanding in the rain.)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
What is boring here is NOT gender. It is the method of communication. The women who are whining here are all about talk. They cannot be pleased. That want to have men listen to the narcissistic chatter about themselves or they expect men to talk about subjects which they are interested in. Desirable relationships between men and women have chemistry. And chemistry has a lot to do with non-verbal communication. On the internet, I am a very verbal fellow. But in person, the best communication is most often the non-verbal kind. And that does not always have to be between a man and a woman. As kid my parents did not have to say a lot to me, I could enter a room, soak up a couple of minutes and know all I needed to know and what was expected of me, all without the utterance of a single word.
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