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Men are _____, Women are _____
Note 1:
This thread was inspired by @DrBastiat’s “Men Value Human Life More Than Women Do” thread, in a “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” kinda way.
Note 2:
This is meant to be a FUN kinda thread. No political/ideological points need to be made, really. Again, it’s just meant to be a FUN thread.
Note 3:
Responses need to be in the “Men are _____, Women are _____” format. Lemme exemplify what I mean, by providing a few initial entries:
Men are Prose, Women are Poetry.
Men are Vectors, Women are Curves.
Men are Danger, Women are Safety.
Men are Chaos, Women are Order.
Note 4:
Again, it’s about having a bit of FUN. Even if it’s deemed to be irreverent these days.
OK. Have at it, my fellow Ricocheteers! Looking forward to your responses.
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As long as I can remember it has been Men are Dogs and Women are Cats.
Men are explainers, Women are discussers.
Hogamus Higamus
Men are Polygamous
Higamus Hogamus
Women Monogamous
– usually attributed to Ogden Nash
Men are tape measures. Women are measuring tapes.
Men are waffles. Women are spaghetti.
Men are protectors of life. Women are givers of life.
Men are Physics, Women are Chemistry.
Pounding the same old hammer again are we?
How do you mean?
Here’s one that’d get me in trouble in most places these days:
Men are men. Women are women.
He means, like, “Initiating the same old exothermic reaction again, are we?” except he’s using Physics instead of Chemistry for his metaphors.
Intended as a joke. Men have always swung hammers. Women stir pots of stew and unguents.
Kinda “chemistry” like …
“Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake
In the cauldron boil and bake.
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
15 Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and blindworm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witch’s mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravined salt-sea shark,
25 Root of hemlock digged i’ th’ dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat and slips of yew
Slivered in the moon’s eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar’s lips,
30 Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-delivered by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab.
Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron
For th’ ingredience of our cauldron.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon’s blood.
Then the charm is firm and good.”?
Yes, I didn’t want to go there. :)
I was thinking of rouged lips and and charcoal around the eyes, and use of herbs for various things, including cooking. But I thought that was all too specific for “Women are _____”.
Right. Like we’ve been trying to explain, me and GPentelie, Men are Physics, like hammers, and Women are Chemistry, like stew and possibly unguents as well. I am checking on the latter but I am positive that it is either Chemistry, like stuff you put on you that doesn’t cause a rash, or Biology, like species that chew their cuds or like that.
… sugar, spice…
No, not that kind, the other one. I can’t describe it near as good as you did the first kind (the wrong one). All I remember is, it doesn’t have chaudrons and howlets. As far as I know, anyway. Now that I think of it, it very well could have either one, or even both.
What do they look like?
Cud is for newborns.
For unguents, emollients, salves, love potions and poisons, I would say are the sciences of Cosmetics and organic Chemistry.
Do you care at all whether anybody understands what you just wrote above? Or do you derive some sort of pleasure from exhibitionistic “I have forgotten more about linguistic precision than the rest of you, combined, have ever learned” type pedantic obscurantism? I mean, really.
PS:
I’m well aware that, via my reply above, I’ve temporarily lowered the FUN quotient of this thread. Sorry, everybody, but it had to be done. Good grief.
We only buy organic Chemistry any more, unless Whole Foods is closed for Winter Solstice or Kwanzaa or something.
It costs more, but it is so worth it.
“Organic” only means that it derives intrinsically from the self(s).
Men are pigs, women are insane for liking men. That’s the way it supposed to be.
-Michael Graham
He was a talk show host in Boston way back and a silent Ricochet member now.
Half right. Finish the analogy:
Women are sugar, spice, and all things nice. Men are snips (or slugs) and snails and puppy dog tails. From the early 1800s. Not even woke.
I know this was to be fun but……..
the line
“ men are polygamous “
” women are monogamous”
is from a far different era where there was a culture of shame inhibiting women which no longer exists and as such it would seem that women are now as polygamous as men.
”
A whole lot of women DON’T like men these days. But it’s not the men’s fault.
Part of the argument is that women don’t really like being promiscuous, they’ve just been told that they should. And a lot of them believe it, to their lasting regret.
I dunno, have you seen the current crop of ‘men’?
Deep. That was D – Double – E – P Deep.
I will never again begrudge Kroger the 50 % premium for organic, now that I realize what the true meaning is.
NB: I see that I’ve inadvertently let slip that we don’t actually shop at Whole Foods. But no matter, I am tired of living a lie, plus, those Ricocheteers who know and understand me surely guessed that I was just making it up all along.
Auch ein NB: I will just blab on and say that even at Kroger I don’t actually pay more for Organic because I can’t afford it to buy organic. Once again I am just a poor boy whose story’s seldom told who is trying desperately to fit in here, like Rudy at Notre Dame.
To the extent they’ve changed, it’s largely because of women telling them that’s what they wanted them to be, and then they hate them for it. Which is still the women’s fault really, because they would also hate them if they DIDN’T change.