Do Women Expect Too Much Of Men?
Or is the real problem adjectives?
“There’s light at the end of the tunnel…hopefully, it’s not a freight train.” Mariah Carey
I blame the division between men and women on adjectives. Nothing makes men less manly, or women more assertive, than what they expect in a partner. Even more worrying is what they’ll do if they don’t get it (present wife excluded, at least for now).
“I want someone who’s honest, kind, caring, giving, chivalrous, doting and reliable,” one woman wrote on a leading dating site. “If I don’t find him, I’ll bake till I do.”
It seems a lot of women are baking these days. Men just aren’t measuring up. As Renae Tobias explained to me in my comment section, “My one and only partner was not a generous or even courteous lover, so the bread was often more rewarding for me.”
She saw such good results, she joined Match.com, saying she’d lost 20 lbs already (which could’ve been Nick Cannon, previous small husband).
Boy, fail at even the simplest adjectives like “generous” and “courteous” and women head for the oven.
I remember Mariah Carey having her stomach stapled. It was reduced to the size of a bag of…
