Comments on: One More Reason Boys Are Dumb

By: Meira

Meira — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:57:31 +0000

Gentlemen,

Grow up. Before, you gave us manners, but no money. Now, you’ve given us money(well, almost) but no manners. When we ask for both, you act like the sky is crashing down.

Your reasoning? Because “Women wanted to be treated equally, so now we’re going to treat you as one of the guys.”

Thats ridiculous. Do women care about your day? Yes. Do women ask you questions? Yes. DO women make you breakfast(on occasion) yes.

We aren’t asking for the impossible, we’re asking for what we have been giving you the whole time.

I open the door for people all the time- to be NICE. Do the same. Not just for women, for everyone.

By: Nautilus

Nautilus — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:01:03 +0000

Jake is definitely right on the money there.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:35:42 +0000

From reading the article any person may come to the conclusion that women don’t actually know what they want but they would be wrong. What women want is “it all” or a perfect guy who does the perfect thing at the perfect time. Its natural for a human to have something nice and to want more of it/something better. People are far from perfect, especially absent minded men. There is no win all answer for dating a guy from any country because all men are different. The best advice I can give for women reading this article is to make up your standards for a guy as your relationship develops and to express what you like and don’t like directly to the guy by telling him. Most men are very bad at picking up social cues and you need to tell them exactly what you want from them. Whether or not you get what you want from the relationship will give you a more accurate interpretation of what you should expect from your guy than the above article.

By: Max

Max — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:09:05 +0000

I think that in all relationships you have to give to get. If you set upon a set of expectations towards someone without you yourself living up to their’s, then you will almost always be disappointed. Perhaps referring to sex as, “po na na” is why your date doesn’t feel like opening the door for you. You must not point fingers and make generalizations. What Jake said is perfectly valid and I tend to feel the same way about your writing. Women’s lib. was a tool created for the sole purpose of breaking apart the family unit and making it so that the women’s role of providing their child with a moral and sound upbringing was transfered to the institutional setting of the modern corrupt classroom.

By: sarah

sarah — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:03:53 +0000

I’m an Aussie, and In response to Alice’s comment, no, Aussie guys are not like that(unfortunately). They’re just as perverted and lazy as anywhere else. Well, some of them..

By: Solmaaz - UMASS

Solmaaz - UMASS — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:00:22 +0000

ladies, i found a second reason why boys are dumb:

jake.

By: jake

jake — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:48:28 +0000

You began your little tirade by deriding a young man for making a generalization according to sex-based criteria (women can’t drive). Then you proceeded to base your entire “article” on a similar generalization, even admitting “I hate to generalize, but yeah”. This whole thing wreaks of hypocricy, that and the pennings of a high-maitenance woman who wants men to do everything for her, while at the same time demanding a certain level of “respect”. I use quotes here because often times this “chivalry” you speak of is the same type of activity that is blasted by women as “demeaning” and “disrespectful”. “I don’t need a man to open the door for me, I’m an independant woman!”. Pick one!

In closing, I would recommend not spending your opening lines to speak out against generalizations, stereotypes, and prejudice, when you entire article is predicated on such ignorance. It really makes you look unintelligent. Then again, after reading most of the material on this website, that is probably unavoidable.

By: Alice

Alice — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:04:49 +0000

I live in England, and trust me – those sweet, innocent English boys you think you’ve met are only so nice because they’re on guest turf, and because American girls are sexy and exotic. (Remember Bridget Jones’s Diary: “Well you see the thing with Laura and me… She being American, someone with a bit of confidence…”)

Back home, they still just get drunk and grab your ass at the pub, expecting you to squeal in delight. As far as nationality goes, my money is on Australians (or maybe I’ve just seen one too many episodes of House).

But following on from all this, I lament the days when men not only opened doors, but actually *pursued* their objects of desire.