Why can't a woman be more like a man!

@p1kef1sh (45681)
March 25, 2009 3:48am CST
This is a song that Rex Harrison sings in "My Fair Lady". Personally, I am quite happy that the women that I know are not more masculine. However, and I realise how sexually stereotypical this is. Ladies if there was one "male" thing that you could learn what would it be. And what typically female thing would you wish that your man (or men if your are replying) would learn. Wonder how many "put the toilet seat downs" I'll get!
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• United States
25 Mar 09
Okay this is kind of funny...but i would like to be able to pee standing up without worrying about it running down my leg. Hmm for the thing i wish a man would learn...that women are the stronger of the sexes.
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• United States
25 Mar 09
Oh and i have to add...i so love that movie My Fair Lady
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
25 Mar 09
I have seen women pee standing up. I don't know about the running down the legs bit though. I wasn't that close! LOL. I know where my place is! On my knees mostly. LOL.
• United States
25 Mar 09
lol
@Jenaisle (14078)
• Philippines
25 Mar 09
That would be in the area of courtship...he he he... I'm not liberated, so If I were younger, that would be one masculine thing that I wish I had. Ladies wait while men take the initiative. Of course, most nowadays, are liberated but still, I think, it should be the men who should take the first step. old fashioned and archaic..perhaps...cheers and happy mylotting.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
25 Mar 09
Increasingly over here women are taking the lead Jen. Some women are said to be "predatory" even!
@snow8515 (169)
• China
26 Mar 09
Now I'm a girl while I want to be a boy next life if there would be eternity. Many friends around me say that I have some personality traits of men, such as stubbornness, diligency, liking extreme sports and not liking cosmetics and so forth. However, I don't like others calling me boy cause I also like to be a beautiful girl. I just like freedom and want to have some personalities.
• United States
25 Mar 09
My answer isn't really stereotypical. I just wish I could learn how to do mechanical work on my car. I know that isn't exclusive to men and not all men know how to replace a catalytic converter. Hell I know men who don't even know how to change the oil, and even I know that....lol But that would be the "manly" thing I would want to learn. I wish my husband would learn how to give pedicures. Again, not gender specific because my ex husband gave better pedicures then the little Korean women that charge $50 for them.
• United States
25 Mar 09
Considering how much I hate feet you would think that I would demand payment to let people touch mine. But no, there is just something about letting someone else do it that makes it worth the $50 for an hour of foot pampering. You ever learn how I'd pay you $50 for one and give you a tip ;)
• United States
25 Mar 09
Hi baby. Mama loves you.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
25 Mar 09
I wish I knew how to give pedicures if you're prepared to pay $5o a pop Cyn. Pass me the corn scraper and the elastoplast!
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
9 Apr 09
Mine already puts the toilet seat down. I beat it into him years ago... One male thing, hmmmm... To be more comfortable with myself. A female thing for him? Not a clue...
@p1kef1sh (45681)
9 Apr 09
LOL. Mine has a list of things for me I suspect Dawn!
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
9 Apr 09
Hey send her list my way. Might be useful!
@GreenMoo (11834)
31 Mar 09
I'd like to be able to fix stuff. My car would probably be top of the list, but I'd like to be able to take stuff apart then put it back together with that sort of inbuilt knowledge that my husband and so many male friends seem to have yet I seem to lack. As for my husband, well I would love him to be able to concentrate on more that one thing at once. Multi tasking is something which women tend to be bettter at, and I find it terribly frustrating when he can't talk about one think, whilst doing another and thinking about a third. And the toilet seat? I'd just like someone to come and reattach it to the toilet so I don't fall off the loo each morning! Perhaps that could be my first job once I develop my 'fixing gene'.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
31 Mar 09
LOL. I can't do anything with a car except fill it with petrol. I know the theory. But once I start taking them apart some kind of monster takes over that insists on dropping small, but vital parts that can't be found and cost small fortunes to replace. LOL. Now Loo seats I can do. There are two bolts attached to the back of the seat. All you need to do is place the seat where you want it - on the loo is a good place. Then place and tighten a nut on the end of each bolt. Job done - in more than one meaning of the word!
@GreenMoo (11834)
14 Apr 09
If I could get the old one off I'd be in a good positiont to follow your advice. Unfortunately it looks like the blasted toilet needs to be detached from the wall in order that one can access the ridiculously long bolts which sit behind it. As I'm renting the house, I'd rather continue to fall off the toilet every time I lower my guard rather than have to completely retile the bathroom for the sake of a loo seat. Have I said before how much I hate this house?
@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
26 Mar 09
I'd like to be a little more assertive, and I'd like my husband to be less crude and more sensitive to other people's feelings.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
26 Mar 09
Have you talked about those things with each other?
@p1kef1sh (45681)
27 Mar 09
LOL. I can understand that. We've only done 23 years so far and know that change is not a practical prospect unless medically or financially driven.
@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
26 Mar 09
After nearly 54 years, we find it easier to ignore each other's supposed short comings.
• Philippines
26 Mar 09
Sorry to say but I grew up closer to my father and I am very athletic. I can even carry my bf on my back! He is 5'9" tall and 74 kgs ...I am 5'3" and 52 kgs only I didn't know that my bf likes a strong woman like me, her ex-gf can also carry him as he showed me an old pic of them together.
• Philippines
26 Mar 09
No, I am still feminine but just athletic. I love to wear sexy clothes
@p1kef1sh (45681)
26 Mar 09
That doesn't make you macho though does it?
@mummymo (23706)
26 Mar 09
My Goodness me the answer to that question is easy - if women were more like men the world would be in a very sorry state indeed and the human race would be extinct by now! The one thing I wish I could do like a man is to be able to pee standing up - that would make life sop much easier! And before you say it I know that technically I CAN but I don't want it running down my legs! pmpl xxx
@mummymo (23706)
27 Mar 09
LOL I am going to try and get a tube inserted so I don't have to sit! lol xxxx
@p1kef1sh (45681)
26 Mar 09
I am trying to imagine you standing there Mummymo. Your fault, you started it! LOL. XXXX
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
26 Mar 09
I'd like to be able to fix anything. I wish my husband would do my work when I'm sick instead of letting it all pile up like dishes and laundry.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
27 Mar 09
I don't have a dishwasher. Wish I did.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
26 Mar 09
I find piled up dishes so irritating. I have to put them in the dishwasher at least. That way they are hidden.
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
26 Mar 09
Well most of the men I know do not like masculine women. In fact I hear men criticise women who are masculine and call them lesbians so it seems that men have no idea what they really want. Probably why the character who sang it was still a bachelor. I like the differences in the genders and think it would be sad if we were all the same. Individuality is what makes life so interesting. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations. I have loved that phrase ever since it was used in star trek. That is one of the beauties of life. As for men being more rational and sensible etc, well that is just plain silly and not at all gender based. I have known many emotional, silly men and lots of rational, sensible women in my life. It is purely an individual thing. As for toilet seats, hmmmm, ours is always left up, even by me. We are all different.
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
26 Mar 09
Besides he was an arrogant man in a time period when it was fashionable to keep the woman at home and have a totally masculine society. What a horrible idea.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
26 Mar 09
You are right of course. We are all different, thank goodness. My genital arrangement does not rule my attitude and thinking (most of the time!!). However, in this house we are definite toilet seats down people.
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@madasp (563)
• United States
26 Mar 09
there really isn't any "male" thing that I wish I could learn, but I really, really, really wish men could learn how to watch a tv program like a woman. You know what I mean, watching the whole thing without having to flip channels during commercials to see what your missing or worse yet bringing up the on screen guide during the show "just to make sure" there isn't something better on. Make a decision and stick with it for heavens sake! Its only a tv show. Also I'd like to weigh in on the whole toilet seat thing. We've never had this arguement in my house because I've never understood it. Its hard for me to tell him he has to put it down every time he's done when I'm not about to put it UP every time im done. so in the interest of fairness its look before you go in my house LOL.
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
26 Mar 09
I never thought of that as a male thing but I do know at least one man who does it. I tend to just ignore the commercials or mute the sound but my partner will flip channels. He can actually watch more than one show at a time and keep track of what is going on. I cannot do that. But there is not much on worth watching these days and if the show is interesting enough then we both watch it and tend to stay on channel. I will check the tv guide and make up my mind early on that there is nothing I want to watch. I will then go off and read a book or go on the computer.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
26 Mar 09
The positions are reversed here. The Boss (my wife) channel hops. That's why I spend so much time on the computer! That's my excuse anyway.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
26 Mar 09
i would wish to be more handy w/fixing things. when it comes to that i'm a dork. as for wishing for what my man would do i don't have one so i don't have to worry about that, pike. the only men in my life are my 2 sons & a grandson. i could think of alot of things the 2 sons could do. of course my grandson is perfect. lol
@p1kef1sh (45681)
26 Mar 09
LOL. Of course your grandson is perfect. Aren't they all?
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
26 Mar 09
why sure. i think they are just born that way. lol
@alottodo (3056)
• Australia
27 Mar 09
When I was a young person I always thoght it would be nice to be male, since they had so much freedom. Today Im 64 and happy to be female, and why should I like to be more like a man! over the years I have done my house maintenance, like painting small repaires,the lawn mowing, cleaning carpets, working, and rising my 4 children, I have driven long distances and never got lost, but if I had my man with me giving directions, we would get hopplesly lost! so at the end of the day why would I like to be more like a man? no point there is it?. As for the toilet seat down? I give up!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
27 Mar 09
You sound a very confident and competent all rounder. Thank you.
@alottodo (3056)
• Australia
27 Mar 09
Thank you, p1kef1sh I really appreciate your coment, you know what the hardest thing to me is? is to let someone look after me! Im sooo independent!but I guess I learnt to be this way at a young age, I saw my mum working alongside my father in the fields, but come dinner time my father was served first. I used to question my self a lot then, why is mum less than dad? as far as I was concerned my mum was doing more than dad! she had us to deal with and father as well? so why was she the last one to have dinner and wash the dishes!I can go for ever in this discussion, so I decided to start my discussion soon.
@csrobins (1120)
• United States
27 Mar 09
How long it takes for a woman to get ready sometimes, how our maintenance is much more hassle than thiers, and how society puts a lot of pressure on us to look a certain way and that we are judged so much more by our appearance than men.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
27 Mar 09
I think that is true. However, I have noticed that women are harder on themselves to conform to certain things, dress, make up, attitudes than men ever expect them to be. I am often intrigued that if you look at women's magazines they talk about being yourself and then you tun the page and there is an airbrushed size 0 pouting away at you. The staff on the mags are almost entirely female. Maybe they are just as conditioning and conditioned as their readers.
@csrobins (1120)
• United States
28 Mar 09
You hit it right on! Women are conditioned to certain standards and they continue to meet and set those standards and expectations. Often times I find myself worrying about the other women seeing me as "good enough" instead of the men! I know I gotta be more confident in who I am instead of what others think but when I feel it everyday by so many people I get so tired and angry of the pressure to keep myself up. The magazines just say to be happy with yourself no matter who you are because they would get hounded by advocists and people who are passionate about girls' real issues. (I work for a treatment center for eating disorders I get pretty stirred up about this sort of stuff sorry)
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
25 Mar 09
It would be more like "Lift the toilet seat" in my house..I wish he would lift the toilet seat. But one thing I would like for him to learn is to be more emotional maybe. And if I could learn maybe he would want me to be less emotional about things
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
26 Mar 09
Thanks bunches..Becky accepts Hugs With much gratitude..xxx
@p1kef1sh (45681)
25 Mar 09
Sounds like you need a big cuddle Becky. You know that I'll always give you one. HUUUUUUUUG! XXXX
@bombshell (11256)
• Germany
25 Mar 09
good question but at this time many women do what mens doing but ony one big difference man compare to woman.the man has hanging stuff and woman is not but the power and the way of thinking woman can bets the man
@p1kef1sh (45681)
25 Mar 09
Generally speaking I find women much stronger emotionally than men.
@bombshell (11256)
• Germany
25 Mar 09
yes you are right
@Humbug25 (12540)
25 Mar 09
Hi ya p1kef1sh I would like to learn how to switch off like men seem to be able to do and I would like a man to learn to listen. Ouch, sorry, but you did ask. I am of course generalising and am not implying that you don't listen or switch off at inappropriate times. I think you are one of the few sensitive, sympathetic, understanding and kind men that are about nowadays.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
25 Mar 09
I'm blushing now as well Humbug! LOL.
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@Humbug25 (12540)
25 Mar 09
Can your head still fit through the door? LOL . I think that men should be told these things just as much as women!
@catdla1 (6005)
• United States
25 Mar 09
That's not an easy question to answer. As time goes on, there is less and less distiction between what are male and female activities...other than whether or not you can go to the bathroom standing up. I know that these things are already occurings, but I would like to see more women in politics on a global basis, and I'd like to see more men invovled with the raising of their children.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
25 Mar 09
Women come into politics and then leave quite fast from my experience. That may well be because of the macho tactics of men. I helped raise mine. Even now I just paid for a bus ticket so that my daughter can get from university home at the weekend. Impressive piece of child raising eh? LOL.
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@catdla1 (6005)
• United States
25 Mar 09
I think with closer to a 50/50 split in political gender that women would stick around longer...but maybe not. Who knows? And I guess what goes around comes around. My husband spend plenty of time dry heaving through diaper changes and yesterday I spent an hour trying to figure out how to change spark plugs - when my husband walked over and did it in 10 minutes.
@TLChimes (4822)
• United States
25 Mar 09
patience.... he has none. I can put the lid down myself thanks.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
25 Mar 09
I am well trained in that respect. I am either beaten into submission or ignored. I'm not a car person either.
@TLChimes (4822)
• United States
25 Mar 09
Me? I need to learn to fix the car beyond the basics.
@vivianchen (2646)
• China
10 Apr 09
I haven't seen the movie "My Fair Lady" yet. But i like your thinking, i have started one discussion about next life. I think it will be good to be a man next life to feel about being a man.But people aslo said you will forget who are you after you reborn. haha...hopefully i can remember i was a lady this life.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
10 Apr 09
I hope that you get your wish. I'd quite like to try being female next time.