Twenty-Five Things Women (Maybe) Don’t Know About Men

“Nothing looks hotter than you in a jersey from our favorite team.”—Kevin, 35

“If we’re too far away to touch you but can smell your perfume, you’re wearing too much perfume.”—Ky, 34

“We hate how long it takes you to get ready. But dammit, we love how you look when you’re done.”—Steve, 31

“We think you’re cute when you wear baseball hats.”—Todd

“It never crosses a guy’s mind to check if you’re wearing a wedding ring. And even if it did, he’ll hit on you anyway.”—Andrew, 40

“We think heels with jeans work for the same reason Chucks with sundresses do—we want to know that you’re laid-back but still girly.”—Ky, 34

“No matter what we say or how often we agree to do it, walking your tiny dog while he wears a sweater kills a little bit of our soul each time we do it.”—Dan, 29

“A man who will buy you tampons and super absorbent pads is a keeper.”—Kevin, 31

“As much as you need to feel desirable, we need to feel useful.”—Dan, 29

“Encourage us to spend time with our friends, especially the ones who repulse you with their vulgar, insensitive, drunken hilariousness; this allows us to get the masculinity out of our system so we don’t repulse you with it.”—Marty, 28

“The best friend you can ever make is my mother. When the two of you are on the same page, I stand no chance—you will both get your way.”—Dan, 29

“If you know we are going to call and you don’t answer—you can cause us a ton of anxiety.”—Joel, 27

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07.08.2010
Matt Davis
So there been some pretty good comments and a few people projecting their own issues. 1 - True 2 - True 3 - Funny but a cup of coffee would work as well. 4 - Yeah, this is nice. I have women initiate and its good. 5 - I do. 6 - I can take or leave it. If she giving great, if not no biggy 7 - Whatever? 8 - Wes is juvenile 9 - Yeah, sure. Sounds good. Was this really a secret? 10 - True. Good looking lasts about two weeks then there has to be conversation 11 - Sleep around and I'll be showing you the door. Period. 12 - False 13 - Agreed. I can look at the menu, just can't order. 14 - Kevin is a freak! I'd rather see ya in lingerie. 15 - Ditto 16 - True 17 - ? Personal preference there with Todd 18 - True' 17 - More personal preference 18 - With me, you'd be walking that thing, not me. Its your dog sister.... 18 - Guess I'm a keeper 19 - Absolutely 20 - I don't have any friends who are vulgar. Birds of a feather thing there 21 - ? 22 - True Apparently I missed some
07.07.2010
Julie
I am older, have 4 brothers and 3 sons....many relationships. LOVE THIS LIST as its pretty true.
07.06.2010
John Baptist
They have a similar list about women on this website, This list consists of 25 things, where as the womens list consists of a thousand. So I would also add......realize that you are many times over more emotionally complicated than us, realize this and forgive us for not remembering every individual thing. And once in awhile spare us from having to play detective.
07.02.2010
Jenelle Colie
The women making comments about how men are simple and mostly only think w/ their genitals have clearly been choosing men for the wrong reasons. The only women I know of who share that opinion tend to be the types that choose men for looks, etc. The same things they complain about men doing. You get what you give.
06.30.2010
nonono nonono
I don't know who these gentlemen were that these opinions were garnered from, however they must be part of a very small percentage of men in existence.They are only vaguely similar to the majority of men I have personally known. Whoever these men were who gave their opinion for this article, they need to breed more of them and then publish another article telling us where we can find said men. It would be a pleasure to meet a man who doesn't lose respect for a woman who has a little self esteem and feels she deserves to have her physical needs met by her partner on her terms on occasion. To meet man who doesn't compare you to society's role models, find you lacking and "loves you anyway" instead of loving you because you love him would be amazing. In other words,the men who made this list are a bit atypical. It's not that men are bad, they aren't.They just are not like the "Prince Charmings" this article would have us believe, but neither are we women perfect so we learn to love as is.
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