A friend of mine, let’s call him Dave, has been really pissing me off lately (can I say piss off on WordPress?)
Anyway, everytime we hang out with him and a bunch of friends he wants the guys and the women to hang out separately. In the same house, just different rooms. And if we play games, god forbid women should play. Because not that women are not capable of playing along, but women don’t take the games seriously enough….. which yeah, it’s just a game, Dave and just because you win at it it doesn’t make you somehow a winner in real life. Akhem.
In addition to his segregated time spending between sexes he also has a man cave. Two men caves, technically. One glorious man room filled with his workout equipment, comicbooks and pheromone-based scents (I’m guessing) and his garage crammed with motorcycles which reeks of testosterone, or whatever that scent is. The rest of the house he is in is mostly decorated by his fiancee, Lindsey.
Now, every couple has their vibe but here’s what I’ll tell you about men caves and men only time.
- Men caves shouldn’t exist- women should compromise and not take over the whole damn house and decorate it upon her liking, it’s that simple. You’re a couple, you live together, you share things. Both parties should compromise.
- Girls time/guys nights- they are ok every once in awhile but the reality is- if you need some time away from your spouse/bf/gf, then something isn’t right. Because I can tell you that after I come home from work at cca. 6pm and I only get to see David for a couple of hours before we both hit the hay exhausted, I don’t have any desire to spend even LESS time with him. If anything, because I only see him for those few hours I actually want to see him MORE.
So this whole men only, girls only stupidity needs to stop. If we want men and women to have 50/50 relationships, have them work as partners, then compromises have to be made.
Because guess what, your partner is your team.
You both live in the house. You can both ride the motorcycle. You can both read comic books. You can both BBQ in the back. You can both fix the sink together. You can both wear boots and know how to use a jack. You can both play sports… etc. It’s common sense, Dave.
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What have to say to this entire post, and any future one regarding “men only things” is that for now going five years, I have pleaded, gotten on my knees and try to any ways for my female friends to join in my activities such as: car restoration, rally racing and playing poker/board games.
And I can say that something is disheartening because I want all sexes to be involve in those activities, I don’t want things just to be just “guy things” or “women things”, in the last few weeks I been hanging with just women, and my male friends say “dude that creepy, are you like having a relationship with any of them?” and when said no, there shock but my female friends so glad they have male friend who is not interested in dating them
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Thanks for your comment, I definitely agree with what you are saying. I feel that this is such an unnecessary division and I truly think both sexes miss out on an opportunity to learn smth too.
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I have gone shopping with my female friends, but weird. I’ll stand in front of the underwear section and ask “how the hell those this thing work?” and they laugh and we have good time.
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