Only Men Rush In




	Only Men Rush In
	Only Men Rush In
		There are seemingly countless generalizations made about what separate the two sexes. Men like sports and Women be shoppin'! Guys are insensitive and Gals are overly emotional. Boys don't listen and Girls don't stop nagging. Ladies love talking on the phone and Gentlemen read on the toilet. If I may go off on a tangent for just a mere moment, why don't women understand this activity? Why do women have such a hard time grasping this? Because you realize, ladies do not do this. Women never read on the toilet. But men certainly do. We need to do this. Check where a man's magazine rack is in his house. Guaranteed, it is in his washroom. The bathroom is like a man's fortress of solitude. A place where we know, without question, that we will be given some privacy. When a woman is aware that a man is sitting down on the toilet, they dare not even think to crack open the door for fear of whatever concoction might be brewing. Capitalizing on this knowledge, men realize that this is the ideal time and place where we can get our quality reading done uninterrupted. (Quality reading = Maxim, FHM, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Entertainment Weekly, Comic books etc). Plus, when around 65% of your bathroom visits are done standing up, you learn to cherish those moments when you can take a break and sit down. Take a load off if you will. (Spoken figuratively and literally I suppose) Now you know ladies. But I digress… Yes, there are many distinct behavioral tendencies that make men and women different. We polarize ourselves from one another by our actions. But sometimes these generalized behaviors that we have connected to a certain sex are wrongly associated. It has long been said that women always take relationships much more serious than men and that they are somewhat more smothering. Now this might be true if we are talking about women who are currently in long term, exclusive relationships. Once a female gets comfortable and confident in a relationship, say around the six month mark, is when she really starts to dig her claws in. Understanding that caveat, for the sake of this argument, lets talk about relationships when they are just starting as in when you first meet and get to know a person. In that regard, I must dispute this notion that women are more serious and smothering. I unfortunately must declare that men are FAR guiltier of moving way too fast than women. I am sorry gents but it's true. What are we doing out there? Based off the information I have gathered from my countless lady friends, ex's, sisters, and when I peep in on women's washrooms, errr…scratch that last one, I am sad to report that men come on way too strong. I can't get over how many stories I have heard from women about guys who go loco after three dates? Girlfriends of mine have told tales of men they have encountered who have called them two to three to four times a day after just meeting them. Guys who are bringing gifts and inviting them to weddings on the second date. Men who start overly expressing their feelings and get all schmaltzy with cards and flowers within the first week. And these are not isolated, freak occurrences. This seems to be happening a lot. Whoa…guys, when did we become so alarmingly uncool? Slow down Romeo! It seems some men around the age of 25 or so get extremely impatient in terms of relationships. Desperate almost in fact. As if those around this age not in relationships wake up suddenly and start panicking. Perhaps this is man's biological clock. I think what is going on here is there are a lot of men around their mid to late twenties who don't have a clue how to date. Why? Because in the traditional sense, they have never done it. Lets be honest, a large of percentage of guys in their late teens and early twenties are dicks. The only thing they are concerned with is scoring with girls (do people still say scoring?) and then moving on to the next one. However, eventually these guys grow up and realize they now have to settle down and meet a girl. The problem is they don't know how to do this. These guys never learned how to secure a second date because back then that was the last thing they ever wanted. So ignorantly, the way they go about this is by forcing and speeding up the steps of romantic engagement. (If I call her countless times she'll know I like her. Right? I should get her a gift. She'll know I'm interested then. Right?) Not understanding dating tact and compounding all of this with a good dose of possessiveness, a common trait found in most men, these guys end up coming on way too strong. And the little I know about the ladies is…they aren't too fond of that. This is a call to all men. Easy does it there fella. Get that cement foot off the gas you are making the rest of us look bad. I don't pretend to be an expert (I liken myself to more of a doctor of love than an expert) but some of this should be common sense. There aren't rules to dating. There is no set standard of how many days you have to wait before you can call her. But use your head though, calling someone nine times over the span of a weekend after just meeting is creepy. Play it cool and she'll like you. Slow down guys. Take a load off and go read on the toilet. …but that's just my opinion. Piss off your pal! Send this article to a friend Got something to say about this article? Say it Here! or mail to michael@boldopinion.com Click here to see more articles by this Author!