# Latest Scientific Research Indicates Men Are Good For Something After All **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 7, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912 "2003-11-07T16:21:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/1 "2003-11-07T16:21:35Z")
[This study](http://www.msnbc.com/news/990101.asp?0dm=-14LT) suggests men are necessary. Yay! Researcher Elizabeth B. Goodwin notes, “Sometimes we wonder why men are around, and maybe this explains it.” ---
**Author:** ![Herge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Herge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Herge)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/2 "2003-11-07T16:33:28Z")
Of course we’re needed! We’re needed for map reading, barbeques, putting up shelves, fixing cars, parallel parking… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/3 "2003-11-07T16:48:17Z")
I’m good at reading maps, doing barbecue and putting up shelves. Cars and parallel parking, though, you can have. I like to have a guy around to lift heavy things, though. We won’t talk about other uses for men. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/4 "2003-11-07T16:54:25Z")
If there were no men, some women would have to be the buffoons. Frankly, ladies, some of you can’t handle the role. It requires a certain brash panache that doesn’t come with the ovarian model. ::Nott struts away with unearned air of confidence, turns an ankle on a painted line:: ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/5 "2003-11-08T01:49:34Z")
And someone has to keep the delicate balance of our atmosphere in order with frequent emissions of bodily gases. Who’s gonna do that without guys around? Abundant carbon dioxide ain’t exactly good for the soul, ya know. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/6 "2003-11-08T02:24:52Z")
And if’n it wern’t for us, what’d be on the tube Fall Sunday afternoons? ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/7 "2003-11-08T02:33:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ChiefScott \* > \*\*And if’n it wern’t for us, what’d be on the tube Fall Sunday afternoons? \*\* [hijack] Holy shit, where you been? [/hijack] Tripler In slack-jawed amazement. ---
**Author:** ![thatDDperson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@thatDDperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thatDDperson)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/8 "2003-11-08T07:17:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Herge \* > \*\*Of course we’re needed! > > We’re needed for map reading, barbeques, putting up shelves, fixing cars, parallel parking… 😃 \*\* I can do all of that, some of it better than most guys I know. I have parallel parked a bobtail truck. I can rebuild a carburetor. As mentioned, I need a Lifter of Heavy Things. And a Scary Critter Remover. Did I ever tell y’all about the armadillo in the bathtub?? ---
**Author:** ![Call\_me\_Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Call\_me\_Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Call_me_Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/9 "2003-11-08T08:13:22Z")
Hey, c’mon now, men do all sorts of things! I, for instance, am the irritation that distracts women from bigger and better problems! ---
**Author:** ![thatDDperson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@thatDDperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thatDDperson)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/10 "2003-11-08T08:38:11Z")
Frank (can I call you Frank?), honey, most women have all the distraction they can handle…not to mention irritation. ---
**Author:** ![Call\_me\_Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Call\_me\_Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Call_me_Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/11 "2003-11-08T13:50:25Z")
Ya know, they keep telling me that 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/12 "2003-11-08T14:04:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Herge \* > \*\*Of course we’re needed! > > We’re needed for map reading, barbeques, putting up shelves, fixing cars, parallel parking… 😃 \*\* map reading: check barbeques: check putting up shelves: check fixing cars: check parallel parking: check (I actually look for places to parallel park) ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/13 "2003-11-08T14:33:54Z")
Believe it was Tim Allen who said. “They only keep us around for Lawn care, and Vehicle maintenance.” ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/14 "2003-11-08T14:37:54Z")
What about taking the lids off jars? ---
**Author:** ![emacularius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@emacularius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacularius)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/15 "2003-11-08T19:20:10Z")
Lids off jars? They make these neat round rubber things for that. Without mine I never would’ve made it thru my single years. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/16 "2003-11-08T19:26:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by emacularius \* > \*\*Lids off jars? > > They make these neat round rubber things for that. Without mine I never would’ve made it thru my single years. \*\* My daughter knows, when I say, “Get me that guy in the drawer” that the rubber jar-lid gripper thingie is exactly what I mean. But I like my WryGuy, even if I am better at most “guy-things” than he is. ---
**Author:** ![emacularius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@emacularius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacularius)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/17 "2003-11-08T19:37:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LifeOnWry \* > \*\*My daughter knows, when I say, “Get me that guy in the drawer” that the rubber jar-lid gripper thingie is exactly what I mean. > > But I like my WryGuy, even if I am better at most “guy-things” than he is. \*\* I think we’re fairly even in “guy things/girl things”…but in our little duo, I’m the one who gets called to action when safety and sanity are threatened by such things as bees and spiders… ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/18 "2003-11-09T00:27:54Z")
Guys are no longer needed, nohow. Not even for removing stuck lids. [Here’s why.](http://www.reachcils.org/newsletter/opener.html) ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/19 "2003-11-09T04:56:24Z")
Wait! Aren’t guys needed for…uh…wait, I almost had one…uh…shoot, it was right there… Oh, I know! Who’s gonna hog the remote with no guys around? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912/20 "2003-11-09T05:26:27Z")
I need a guy around to put sunscreen on my back in a neat fashion. The Do-it-yerself bend my arm like gumby fashion has produced some interesting burn lines on me in the past. Oh, and from the spare change that Mr. Ujest marks his territory with upon arriving home ( usually moments before his pants(trousers to you, brits.) magically fly off so as he can be in his natural state of underwear-ness) pays for vacations. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-scientific-research-indicates-men-are-good-for-something-after-all/211912.md?page=2)