Wedding Season…and other myths about women.

Okay, i don’t know if this topic struck me with such passion today because i was hungry at the time, and by hungry and mean freakin starving, or if because i finally realized how scary women can actually be. I don’t want to loose my male audience with this, if there is one, i just want to set some common misconceptions straight that i feel come up a lot, especially this time of year.

Weddings are just as terrifying to some women as they are to men. Not all of us have been waiting to be married since the third grade….yes we may have an idea of what ring we want, the music we want played and the time of year in which the shin dig will take place (fyi not everyone wants to be a june bride either), but most of us…i would hope… realize that these details will most likely change. However sitting with a group of women today really did enlighten me to what we must sound like sometimes. I didn’t know these women very well so i’ll try to pretend it just sounded like they were being catty…or maybe they were hungry too. I won’t bore you with the details, nor do i want to out myself or those women, but every statement they made about women’s expectations in a relationship hit every single stereotype that men want to run away from. WE DON”T ALL FEEL THAT WAY! Some of us want nothing but mutual respect and to spend time with the people that make them feel like a better person, someone that “enhances their quality of life” (i can’t claim that phrase either, someone told me that about a year ago and it stuck…thank you.) So ladies, please even if you feel like you need a huge rock, promise of eternal commitment, or a contract signed in blood, don’t voice these feelings out loud! especially in front of guys that already seem kinda skiddish about commitment. Most likely they’re so skiddish because they’ve heard it before and are starting to think that’s what all women want. This leaves the women out there who want to be with emotionally unavailable men like themselves out of luck because they assume that we want those things too. So just don’t.

Also, some of us enjoy sports, like girly movies from time to time but really love good cinema, don’t always want to spoon, don’t always want to hear we look cute…but every now and again that is a necessity, don’t need you to always open the door and pick up the tab…but don’t think we don’t appreciate it…..a lot of other things too…. Really some of us can be just as “normal” as the next guy.

i realize this was more of a rant and very specific and limited to my opinions of what is good in life, i apologize. However, i feel like it’s something that needs to be said, because i can’t be the only one out there that just wants the simple things in life and realizes everything else is the icing. Not that i’m opposed to icing, i just don’t need that right now…i am on a diet ya know.

~ by mprint on May 13, 2008.