Things Men [Don't] Do.

New Category: Broad, Sweeping, Generalizations.

1) Men don't worry about juggling work and family. They just go to work. They don't sit and think about who is going to clean, grocery shop, or do the laundry.

2) Men eat food they purchase at gas stations. Sometimes the hot food, sometimes just the junk food in bags. They will just as often eat the food that you make them. The short summary is, put food in front of a man and he will eat it.

3) Men worry about whether you are being nice to their mothers, but they don't worry about what they could do for yours.

4) Men don't agonize about finding the 'right' gift for your birthday. Ideally, you would tell them what you want and that's what they will give you.

5) Men won't accompany you when you have a business dinner, but they want you to attend theirs. You will not say anything, but its important that you be intelligent and accomplished - just in case.

6) Men only need one towel. Which is probably why they don't worry so much about laundry.

7) Men don't have any problem interrupting when you're trying to get work done, or assuming that you'll be able to drop everything to have an office conversation, be available for an appointment or social engagement.

8) Men cannot be interrupted when they are working. They have paperwork to complete, trips to make, responsibilities that mean that family and home must always come second. They have to do their jobs. Nothing should get in the way of that.

9) Men watch a lot of TV and they genuinely enjoy it.The commercials on their channels (the Golf channel, for example) are different.

10) Men who don't want something are not quite right. Men we support financially are often difficult to respect. Women who are supported financially by men are, likewise, often difficult for men to respect, but when women go to work, that isn't so comfortable either. See #7.

*More a commentary on the way that we raise men in American society than anything else. And not necessarily what makes women unhappy, in the big picture. We've been raised to want them to work; to want something. If we raise them another way? It doesn't quite work.

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Even J? He seems like he'd not be bad at all of those...