Now that I’m a real driver, I’ve gotten into listening to the radio. Unfortunately, I detest the kind of stations that play music because I need radio with words. So at first, I listened only to commercials. Then I got tired of hearing about the magic pill that would help me feel like the man I want to be in the bedroom and at the gym.
So I found a talking radio station from St Louis. From that station, I learned that men find it emasculating when:
1. A woman asks them to open a jar and they can’t.
2. A woman drives the car while they sit in the passenger seat.
3. They have to ask a mechanic how to change a tire. I’m guessing that if the mechanic happens to be a woman, that’s an absolute end of the world.
I’m now feeling extremely grateful for my husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather who would not even understand the structure of the above-listed sentences.
I feel very sorry for people who endure this castration complex and don’t realize they don’t have to. Poor freaks. Do you realize it’s the same idiots who have been coming to the blog to insist that “men and women are different”? This neurosis is all they have in terms of individualty, the fools.
I can’t even remotely imagine anything that would make me feel “less of a woman,” or whatever. The whole idea is baffling.
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This is a talk radio station and not some music station’s morning show right?
Talk radio skews old, old, old: The median age of a conservative talk radio listener is 67, hence all of the outmoded hyuks about jars and driving and commercials about magic pills.
If you have an Ipod, you can download podcasts, and listen to them in your car when you plug the Ipod into the adapter (if your car even needs an adapter). Or you can do the books on tape/podcast/thing.
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I just wanted to be a real, hard-core Midwesterner and not a typical cosmopolitan intellectual. 🙂
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But you start out with this load of crap? I have no problem opening jars, might have to whack it with a knife or lever the lid to break the vacuum, but it is done; don’t give a damn who drives, sharing is necessary on longer drives; and frankly, have changed many tires, and showed my late wife how to handle it when she was on her own, but never met a female mechanic…and, if you get your bum out of your heads, neither have most of you ;-D
Sorry, just your friendly local “idiot” ;-D
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This is still the only no- music station I found. Yesterday they discussed who can make the best farting sounds. Nothing is more pointless and self-defeating than traditional masculinity.
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What’s wrong with the men of today? Can’t they open a petty little jar?
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No. BUT they can make an entire radio show about that. 🙂
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Opening Jars and Man Candles ™. I wandered into a Yankee Candle, smelt the beer flavored one and gagged. The bacon one smells like dog treats. It’s a product line because apparently men don’t like the smell of musk and patchouli because it’s too feminine.
I think they should sell candle warmers shaped like miniature grills and design the candles with faux grill marks. That’ll bring the men to Yankee Candle. :p
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“I wandered into a Yankee Candle, smelt the beer flavored one and gagged. The bacon one smells like dog treats.”
– Yes, I know! I had this exact same experience. My husband hated them even more than I did. I’ve got to tell him that he didn’t pass the Typical Male test. 🙂
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Clarissa, there are multiple issues in what you describe. Two resonate with me:
(1) Everyone regardless of gender should be trained in certain life skills before being turned loose on society. These skills include (but are not limited to) cooking, washing clothes, changing tires and checking oil levels.
(2) Why is trivia associated with gender identify? I remember back in the day when faculty status was symbolized by the size of windows in one’s office. Same sort of idiocy. Are you contributing to making your corner of the world a better place? Ultimately, isn’t that what matters?
Vic
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“I remember back in the day when faculty status was symbolized by the size of windows in one’s office.”
– It’s still like that everywhere, unfortunately. 😦 People fight and struggle over the silliest little things.
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We have a son who is a Senior CPO in the Navy. Years ago, when he was assigned as an instructor at the Great Lakes Training Center. He discovered one recruit who was buying new uniforms instead of washing them, and then discovered that more than half of the recruits in that training section did not know how to do laundry. Guess what got added to the curriculum?
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