# I am stuck in a girly bed for the rest of my life. Hear me vent! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 29, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-stuck-in-a-girly-bed-for-the-rest-of-my-life-hear-me-vent/435466 "2008-01-29T16:25:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-stuck-in-a-girly-bed-for-the-rest-of-my-life-hear-me-vent/435466/161 "2008-01-31T15:01:28Z")
Hey, **I** got it. But if you’re gonna need new shoes if you really want your set to sparkle. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-stuck-in-a-girly-bed-for-the-rest-of-my-life-hear-me-vent/435466/162 "2008-01-31T15:56:13Z")
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip] _\_ It was a joke, inspired by comments made by you, **THespos** , **silenus** , **A Priori Tea** , and **gravitycrash** referring to sex as a commodity on the domestic balance sheet. I’m prone to making them. Rarely funny, but seldom do they go quite so wrong. (See, _this_ is why comedy clubs don’t combine “open mic night” with an audience Q&A session…) [/QUOTE] I thought it was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-stuck-in-a-girly-bed-for-the-rest-of-my-life-hear-me-vent/435466/163 "2008-01-31T22:07:17Z")
I guess my humor filter doesn’t kick in when the joke involves me being some licked member of a limp marriage in which my sucky wife hustles me into erecting Barbie’s Penthouse b/c I’m so hard up for blowjobs. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-stuck-in-a-girly-bed-for-the-rest-of-my-life-hear-me-vent/435466/164 "2008-02-01T00:41:17Z")
I can’t decide if **THespos** is being kind of sexist, or if there’s a defect on one of my X chromosomes. I have just two pillows. One is bare, and it serves to keep my real pillow from leaning up against the headboard. The other is in a plaid pillowcase I made. I get girlie points for sewing the cases myself, right? ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-stuck-in-a-girly-bed-for-the-rest-of-my-life-hear-me-vent/435466/165 "2008-02-01T01:24:28Z")
I guess I’m just masquerading as a female as well - no comforter, no duvet, no shams, no NFPs. What’s more, he’s the one who is always too cold while I hang one leg outside the cover to regulate body temperature, much the way an iquana will keep its tail immersed in water while sunning itself on a rock. Hmm, actually, we do have serveral cats who double as NFPs. Okay, I’m a girl after all. ---
**Author:** ![Radegast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c4cdca/32.png) [@Radegast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Radegast)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-stuck-in-a-girly-bed-for-the-rest-of-my-life-hear-me-vent/435466/166 "2008-02-01T12:12:36Z")
I’m wondering now if my wife and I have totally misunderstood the use of pillow shams lo these many years. We put the pillows (two total) that we sleep on into the shams in the morning, then place them on the bed with their matching comforter and bed skirt ensemble. At night, we take them out and toss the shams on the chair, dresser, hamper, etc. No NFPs or other extraneous decoration. Taking the pillows in and out of the shams takes about 90 seconds per day in total. Is this a hopeless bed fashion/usage/worship/decorating/hygiene faux pas? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-stuck-in-a-girly-bed-for-the-rest-of-my-life-hear-me-vent/435466.md?page=8)