In Which Men Are Evaluated
Ladies, what have you done? I say you, and not me, because I had no hand in this travesty. What travesty, you ask? Men today.
I heard a young woman complaining at a cafe the other day, that her boyfriend wasn’t talking about his feelings enough. Her boyfriend, she said, would not spend all of his time with her, that he didn’t cry at romantic movies. THIS IS A TRAVESTY.
To be quite honest, I don’t cry at romantic movies. I felt that Sweeny Todd was one of the sweetest love stories I’ve ever seen, and the Notebook was just more fluffy trash. Now, having dated a man who spoke about his feelings non-stop, I can tell you damn well that this is sickening. I don’t want to know. I don’t want to be smothered. Real men share their feelings the way my current boyfriend does:
Babe, good news! _____(event here)_____! Isn’t that great?
Babe, bad news. _____(event here)_____. Doesn’t that suck?
Today? Today was…meh.
There are no unnecessarily romantic gestures that are so antiquated and cliche as to be meaningless. No, he simply accepts that when he wants me to know, he’ll tell me. He accepts that when one of us is happy, they’ll mention it, and if one of us is sad, we’ll mention it. When he was concerned for his grandfather’s health, he told me. When he was concerned that he needed a job, he told me. And when he was excited that he got the job, and that his grandfather was doing better, he told me. He doesn’t spend every waking moment doting on me, because I would be smothered. He doesn’t need to call me midday and tell me how he’s feeling unless something has changed. And we are HAPPY.
Nobody should drown their partner in an avalanche of cliches. My ex did. Before you ask, this isn’t a rant about him, he’s simply a convenient example. He went on and on about his feelings, to the point where I no longer had time to think about my own feelings. Men are supposed to be MEN, not women. They have feelings and should express them, but not to the point where they smother us. They should be neat and groomed, but they should never use more product or spend more time in front of a mirror than us (shaving doesn’t count).
TL;DR
Men need to go back to being men, and stop being women, because if I wanted to date women, I would.
