The Truth About Women

I am in total agreement with the 2 of you guys! i never cease to be amazed at the beauty of women inside and outside. God truly put them on this earth to be Angels and keep us guys on the straight and narrow!!! it's just sad that we tend to want to follow more than one of those Angels instead of remaining monogamous!!!! not all of us, but a big majority!!

barnie

<<pummel, pummel>>

;-)

I whole heartedly agree....Look, I'm a woman and I'll be the first to admit I'm crazy sometimes. Yep, the heart and emotions overtake the rationality of things in my life...and it's just me.

Now, to follow up that, men have their moments as well, however, they seem to be hidden from us. I think (and really I can only speak for me, not all womankind) I am so passionate about things in my life that when I get crazy, it is the passion seeping out.. :0)...Or who knows, maybe I just got in the 'crazy' line when I should have been in the 'can handle things' line....

I have to give you kudos on your points...Oh and just so you know, I do tell people ..yep, the one thing you should know about me, is I have moments of craziness...and sometimes not in a good way!! :0)

There is an old joke about PMS that says something to the effect that 6 days a month women act like men do all of the time. In other words fellas...that shoe fits you too!;->

As long as it's not a little black pump, I'll wear it.

I was hoping you had really BIG feet.

pummel, pummel too.

goood kitty ;-) Come here and I'll scratch your ears and rub under your chin ;->

Let's continue to focus on Spencer's point 1. that is that women are such amazingly beautiful creatures:) i want one!!!!!!!

onghorn79Lay,

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too late Tiger. I know better.

Dallas

You just watch your mouth buster or I will go wake up Spuff and get her after you. You wish. heehee

dotcom,

Good luck waking the Pirate Queen up...she's on a strict regimen of Nyquil, Vaporub and Rx sinus meds.

he takes such good care of me. sigh.

OK, Pru,

Bring it on...

*snort*

*snort*

*smack*

*smack*

*snort*

there is also the statement that when a woman asserts herself she is being a bitch. which may or may not be true, depending on the tone of voice. :-)

" O "

A particular woman I know, with a Cherokee injun heritage, would advise people of them having two choices in life..

- get over it

- or, get phucked

I understand there to be nothing wrong with your dilemma ..it's just a matter of continuos relationship negotiation and understanding the two choices..

Now then, "we" can LOL together on this or invoke the two choices ..

LOL

Froggy

Frog,

You're my friend. I don't exactly know why you're my friend, but you are.

Here's another dilemma. Since some surgery a few years back, I'm not as pissy as I used to be, thank God and I work with someone who is always playing the "pms" card and sometimes I just want to smack her because it seems that every time she's slacking or not wanting to to something it's her damn cycle. I worry myself with how disgusted by this I am. Suck it up chick. Do your work.

Rose, remember bitch is just a female dog. Used otherwise it simply reflects a mouth that is cheap and easy and a temperament that cannot handle being challenged. When you hear that word just think cheap!

Olivia H,

Before I start this long-winded post: I have admired your wit and wisdom in various discussions from the first day I joined TBD. Nothing in this posting is intended to make fun of you or cast any shadow on your character or actions. I realize your questions were rhetorical, but I am addressing them in a different way, just to enliven the discussion.

"Am I myself when..." <various cases>. We are always ourselves, especially when we claim we are not.

Am I myself when I speak my mind... Speaking your mind is fine, but don't let candor become cruelty for no good reason.

and don't take crap off of anyone... As long as you don't define mere disagreement as "crap", I'm with you.

I'm letting everyone get what they want at my expense ...That's not good for you, but unless others know it, it's not their fault. Even if they do know it, it's not always wrong of them to push things anyway. I had a sign on my desk for years that read "All I ask is an honest advantage." If you don't have a similar sign, get one.

How would you like it if every time you assert yourself, you're told you're pms'ing? ...I would not like it one damned bit. If it were truly "every time", I'd stop listening to them, and I would tell them they were idiots, for the reason in the next paragraph.

And how would you like it if that were the awful truth? Again, I would not like it at all. If you truly suffer from medically diagnosed PMS, my heart is with you. But beware! As a "syndrome", PMS is by definition a collection of symptoms, not a specifically identified cause or condition. PMS first came to mass attention in the mid-1980s, when a woman in the UK asserted it as a defense in her murder trial. The medical community back then was concerned this would cause a corruption of serious medical research. How right they were!

The drug companies latched onto it. They turned a very rare syndrome with florid symptoms into something that every woman dealt with on a monthly basis. This is a disservice to both the women who do suffer from this debilitating problem and to those whose ordinary symptoms have been made into a source of worry, doubt and even anguish. It sure improves drug company bottom lines, though

Can you imagine how men would laugh if the drug companies tried to market a medicine for Male Reaction Syndrome (MRS) that "relieved those feelings of competition and aggression that accompany tense or challenging conditions" ?

D,

Thank you for taking the time to write your thoughts. You are one I watch and I've thought a time or two that you are better at this than most. And now I learn that you are an expert on premenstrual syndrome. Could you at least admit that you've never experienced it and that the fact that you haven't might leave a bit of a gap in your knowledge? That's all I'm asking of you and Uncle Spencer. Uncle, are those the only 2 truths you could come up with? We're pretty and insane. "All women are insane"???? If that be true and PMS is questionable, then we really have come a long way, baby. And we've done it with a less than supportive opposite sex.

Olivia,

Please read my comments again. I am not a PMS expert. I just recounted what I had read in peer-reviewed articles about PMS. They sure beat CNN and Oprah, but they doesn't play as well in Peoria.

As for personal experience leaving gaps in knowledge, that would put me in the company of police officers, sportswriters, paleontologists and many others who do not experience the lives of their subjects first-hand. I confess that I can never know PMS first-hand.

I explicitly stated that PMS does exist. I even said I was sympathetic to your having it, if indeed you do. Not that it's any of my business, of course.

I do heap flaming piles of Texas-sized insults on the cynical and exploitative efforts of drug companies to convince women that PMS is always associated with their monthly cycles. I consider such efforts demeaning at best and sinful at worst.

I guarantee you the drug companies don't think "you've come a long way, baby". If they did, they would not treat you disrespectfully.

D,

You don't have to suffer with the paleontologists. I'm your dinosaur. I can tell you about myself. And after I do, are you going to pat me on the head and say, "That can't be how you feel, sweetie. I read a paper on it. You don't have a cycle that causes emotional and physical upheaval. You're just insane. I read a damn paper on it."

A talking female dinosaur? Have I got a guy for you!

He's from Japan, here on a student visa...film school, I think he said...

I've been called worse and I've dated worse as well.

Maybe so, but check this out...

Thirty-three years ago I asked this woman to dance. She said, "With you? Forget it!". Her friends started apologizing, explaining that she was drunk and tired, having come straight to the bar after spending 21 days in jail .

My two buddies gave me a new nickname on the spot: "Jailbait".

Hmmm....Nickname stories, bad date stories or jail stories. So many possibilities. I'm stymied. I'll save it for my memoir. Look for it in bookstores:

The Truth About Women: Pretty Insane or Insanely Pretty

And the sequel:

101 Excuses: How to get out of dancing with strange men

Jail stories are good, but I like the "101 Excuses..." sequel idea. Problem is, the drunkette never made an excuse, she just turned me down flat: talk about "blind drunk"!

Luckily her brunette friend knew how to dance just fine.