Why do we put up with men?
OMG!! I always suspected there was reasons I don't like Rush Limbaugh, but I finally have some understanding why. The guy is sooooo full of not just himself, but of ALL men's superiority!
I was just listening to a call from this guy to Limbaugh on the radio in the other room when I was getting coffee and the guy was grousing about the Lowes commercial that has the guy complaining there's no time to get some projects done or they're too hard etc... and the guy's wife (I thought it was his wife but the guy on radio was saying girlfriend) and the woman worker for Lowes are saying it's not that hard. Then the commercial ends with guy admitting the wife is right and it wasn't as hard as he had thought it would be.
The guy that called the radio show was up in arms over the commercial because of the two women against the guy, and that was bad enough, but Rush Limbaugh was saying stuff about how it was funny in part because of cliché's and while I agree on that I do not agree on his apparently genuine feelings that it is apparently funny because it shows the woman knowing how to fix things.
He seems to have the opinion from what I can determine that 'everyone knows that women can't really do those jobs'.
Excuse me, Mr. Limbaugh?
Here is a much more realistic view of how that comercial goes:
The woman is sitting at her kitchen table sipping coffee and looking out back. Husband watching football on television. Wife looks up, "Hunny, I'm going to the store."
"Okay dear... bring me back some chips, would you?"
"I wasn't going that far, just down to Lowes."
The man's attention is now caught. "What?"
"I want to do some things in the back yard this weekend, thought I would go pick some stuff up."
Husband chuckles and sets television to record rest of game. "I'll come with you."
They go down to the hardware store and are looking at things, the guy looking at the tools and the woman calculating out what is needed to get the projects done. The guy just wants to go back to the game and working in the yard is not feeling as much fun anymore so he grouses about things being more work than they have time for. It's his football weekend after all, and by the time he's done watching the game there won't be time for the rest of that.
The wife talks to the Lowes gal to find out what all they have that can make the project go faster, confident there is enough time and not caring about the football game when she don't need the guy to do the work anyway. They get what they need and go home. The guy flops on the couch saying, "just let me catch up on the game and we'll get started." Wife agrees but instead of going to relax she goes out back and after a little while the husband realizes that she's doing the job herself.
Now, men are so full of themselves that they don't think women can do "men's work", so the guy puts the game back on record and goes to convince her to stop and wait until the game is off and he'll do that stuff.
She's not gonna stop, she wants to work, she's having fun doing this project and has a good idea what she's wanting to have as an end result. Not just for this weekend but for adding on later on in a few months or years or whenever.
End result, the husband stars taking things away from her and doing them himself, for some reason thinking a man is more capable of sawing and hammering and whatever else than a woman.
I've seen this happen a lot. My mom and I even have a snickering joke that if we want to get something done we just go out and start doing it and the guys will come and do the job instead. Trouble is, the last time that happened the porch me and my mom had planed out for how it fit and how the later room addition would fit ... it was botched and we're still not sure why no one would listen to us when we said how we wanted it to look, but they're guys, they know more than mere women.
I'm sorry to bust people's (men's) bubbles, but women do know how to use stuff like hammers, saws (even chain saws), and cordless drills. I can use a SawsAll, I've helped build several houses - shoot... I can even do automotive work like changing out the engines in a pickup truck. One of my older sisters ripped the chassis off of a Jeep Cherokee and put another Jeep Cherokee's chassis under it.
Women are not all like those little delicate socialite types that are scared to bust a manicured nail. No more than men are those socialite types that can't get a stain on their tie.
Rush Limbaugh said something about (paraphrasing here, sorry) how when he sees the commercial where the "woman knows how to fix things and the guy doesn't it tells him the advertising execs did homework", meaning that it is a reflection of how many women are wrapping their men around their fingers. I'm sorry, Mr. Limbaugh, and other men out there, but women really do know how to do this stuff. We're not manipulating guys, we really do know how far apart to space the joists, what grade of insulation to use in the walls for where we live, how to wire an outlet, how to install a new chandelier, and even - *gaspy* - how to hit a nail and drive it into wood (pssst - we even know the different types of nails and what is right for what projects and when you can just grab any damn nail and slam it through the wood to get the job done.)
Okay, rant off, sorry, but I was annoyed that them guys out there seem to think women are some frail little housewife that can't do anything more strenuous than housework and should be domestic little submissives to their He-Man husbands/boyfriends.
We're not trying to geld you, guys, but please, don't accuse us of trying to act like guys. We're women and we are fully capable in our own right.
I was just listening to a call from this guy to Limbaugh on the radio in the other room when I was getting coffee and the guy was grousing about the Lowes commercial that has the guy complaining there's no time to get some projects done or they're too hard etc... and the guy's wife (I thought it was his wife but the guy on radio was saying girlfriend) and the woman worker for Lowes are saying it's not that hard. Then the commercial ends with guy admitting the wife is right and it wasn't as hard as he had thought it would be.
The guy that called the radio show was up in arms over the commercial because of the two women against the guy, and that was bad enough, but Rush Limbaugh was saying stuff about how it was funny in part because of cliché's and while I agree on that I do not agree on his apparently genuine feelings that it is apparently funny because it shows the woman knowing how to fix things.
He seems to have the opinion from what I can determine that 'everyone knows that women can't really do those jobs'.
Excuse me, Mr. Limbaugh?
Here is a much more realistic view of how that comercial goes:
The woman is sitting at her kitchen table sipping coffee and looking out back. Husband watching football on television. Wife looks up, "Hunny, I'm going to the store."
"Okay dear... bring me back some chips, would you?"
"I wasn't going that far, just down to Lowes."
The man's attention is now caught. "What?"
"I want to do some things in the back yard this weekend, thought I would go pick some stuff up."
Husband chuckles and sets television to record rest of game. "I'll come with you."
They go down to the hardware store and are looking at things, the guy looking at the tools and the woman calculating out what is needed to get the projects done. The guy just wants to go back to the game and working in the yard is not feeling as much fun anymore so he grouses about things being more work than they have time for. It's his football weekend after all, and by the time he's done watching the game there won't be time for the rest of that.
The wife talks to the Lowes gal to find out what all they have that can make the project go faster, confident there is enough time and not caring about the football game when she don't need the guy to do the work anyway. They get what they need and go home. The guy flops on the couch saying, "just let me catch up on the game and we'll get started." Wife agrees but instead of going to relax she goes out back and after a little while the husband realizes that she's doing the job herself.
Now, men are so full of themselves that they don't think women can do "men's work", so the guy puts the game back on record and goes to convince her to stop and wait until the game is off and he'll do that stuff.
She's not gonna stop, she wants to work, she's having fun doing this project and has a good idea what she's wanting to have as an end result. Not just for this weekend but for adding on later on in a few months or years or whenever.
End result, the husband stars taking things away from her and doing them himself, for some reason thinking a man is more capable of sawing and hammering and whatever else than a woman.
I've seen this happen a lot. My mom and I even have a snickering joke that if we want to get something done we just go out and start doing it and the guys will come and do the job instead. Trouble is, the last time that happened the porch me and my mom had planed out for how it fit and how the later room addition would fit ... it was botched and we're still not sure why no one would listen to us when we said how we wanted it to look, but they're guys, they know more than mere women.
I'm sorry to bust people's (men's) bubbles, but women do know how to use stuff like hammers, saws (even chain saws), and cordless drills. I can use a SawsAll, I've helped build several houses - shoot... I can even do automotive work like changing out the engines in a pickup truck. One of my older sisters ripped the chassis off of a Jeep Cherokee and put another Jeep Cherokee's chassis under it.
Women are not all like those little delicate socialite types that are scared to bust a manicured nail. No more than men are those socialite types that can't get a stain on their tie.
Rush Limbaugh said something about (paraphrasing here, sorry) how when he sees the commercial where the "woman knows how to fix things and the guy doesn't it tells him the advertising execs did homework", meaning that it is a reflection of how many women are wrapping their men around their fingers. I'm sorry, Mr. Limbaugh, and other men out there, but women really do know how to do this stuff. We're not manipulating guys, we really do know how far apart to space the joists, what grade of insulation to use in the walls for where we live, how to wire an outlet, how to install a new chandelier, and even - *gaspy* - how to hit a nail and drive it into wood (pssst - we even know the different types of nails and what is right for what projects and when you can just grab any damn nail and slam it through the wood to get the job done.)
Okay, rant off, sorry, but I was annoyed that them guys out there seem to think women are some frail little housewife that can't do anything more strenuous than housework and should be domestic little submissives to their He-Man husbands/boyfriends.
We're not trying to geld you, guys, but please, don't accuse us of trying to act like guys. We're women and we are fully capable in our own right.
Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did,
but she did it backwards and in high heels.
but she did it backwards and in high heels.
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