# The bad thing about wimmins is... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 17, 2000, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781 "2000-07-17T01:23:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/41 "2000-07-17T19:21:03Z")
**Techchick68** > [@](#): > > I can work on a computer. > I can work on my car, although I haven’t in a while. > I can work on plumbing or heating with little or no guidance. > I can read a map, but I don’t need to, incredible sense of direction. > I hate housework. > I hate yard work. > I am good at things financial. > I can program the VCR. > I have more CDs than most men. > I wanna be a race car driver. > I like to cook. > I like to hike. > I like football. > I like hockey. > I hate shopping. > I prefer jeans over skirts. > I like men. > I don’t want children. My wife was just like that but let me substitue “I like basketball” for “I like hockey” and add “I like Star Trek” to your list (for my wife). After we got married you could scratch off Like football, basketball, Star Trek and hate shopping (actually she kinda liked shopping all the time). How’d THAT work? We dated for four years before getting married…you’d think she’d have cracked sooner if it was all a put-up job for my benefit. Here’s another one… Techie said she wanted to be a race car driver when growing up. My wife, who has a desk job thinks she _is_ a race car driver while tooling around the city. You should see her leave a toll booth. Here’s the rub though…if _I_ drive even half as aggressively as she does I get an earful about not driving like an asshole. (This coming from a person who’ll slow down to 30 on the expressway to block someone in who pissed her off) **Persephone** > [@](#): > > “Huh? What the hell are you so bent about? That’s a non-issue, dear. Move on.” Ahhh…now we get to it! See, if a man get bent it’s, “That’s a non-issue, dear. Move on.” If a woman gets bent it’s (woman speaking), “I’m not through with you yet! I’m really hurt! This reminds me of the time when you forgot my present for Groundhog Day…_(blah blah blah for the next two hours)_”. Seriously wimmin of the SDMB… Would you buy, “That’s a non-issue, dear. Move on.” and leave it at that? Didn’t think so…_he says answering his own question and diving for the nearest hole_. P.S. Single Guys of SDMB…If Techie’s resume posted above is legit and if Anthracite doesn’t convince her she’s gay count yourselves lucky. She is blond, she is good looking AND she hates shopping (among other things). If there’s an ounce of personality behind all that I’d start the bootlicking now! ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/42 "2000-07-17T19:29:54Z")
For a Pit thread it’s pretty funny. Unca, sure you did justice for this thread? I am sure I am mostly heterosexual Antha – which for a guy should be a blessing in disguise (no need to go into that further) \< tehe \> ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/43 "2000-07-17T19:48:43Z")
> [@](#): > > I am sure I am mostly heterosexual Antha – which for a guy should be a blessing in disguise (no need to go into that further) \< tehe \> _Mostly_ heterosexual? No no…go right ahead! _Please_ elaborate! See Whammo! Just when you were getting down on wimmin you learn why you put up with them in the first place! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/44 "2000-07-17T19:52:38Z")
Y’know, Whammo, if you’re gonna be like that, I’d appreciate your leaving my name out of it. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/45 "2000-07-17T20:05:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff\_42 \* > \*\*See Whammo! Just when you were getting down on wimmin you learn why you put up with them in the first place! \*\* Maybe if Whammo \* was\* “getting down” on his woman, she would be more responcive to him. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![etgaw1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ed655f/32.png) [@etgaw1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etgaw1)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/46 "2000-07-17T20:12:34Z")
Women are the worst passengers. They like to scream. It does not help the driver if you just scream out if you don’t like something they are doing. The driver panics then you die. If you think you see a danger that the driver doesn’t CALMLY bring his attention to it. And for God Sakes Never Grab for the steering wheel. At you STUPID are you trying to get us killed Bitch. Geez. ---
**Author:** ![FreakFreely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@FreakFreely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FreakFreely)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/47 "2000-07-17T20:28:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by techchick68 \* > \*\*\< techchick realizes why she’s still single \> > I can work on a computer. > I can work on my car, although I haven’t in a while. > I can work on plumbing or heating with little or no guidance. > I can read a map, but I don’t need to, incredible sense of direction. > I hate housework. > I hate yard work. > I am good at things financial. > I can program the VCR. > I have more CDs than most men. > I wanna be a race car driver. > I like to cook. > I like to hike. > I like football. > I like hockey. > I hate shopping. > I prefer jeans over skirts. > I like men. > I don’t want children. > \*\* Wow, techichick… wow! ---
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/48 "2000-07-17T20:35:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SwimmingRiddles \* > **You can all just kiss my lily-white, sweet little female ass.** **Well** you know what ? Um . . . hold on its coming to me, - no wait - really I can almost form a thought. Oh no. ::_testosterone flooding brain, IQ dropping dramatically_:: Damn you ! Damn you and you mental images !!! (NM goes off to find a corner to drool in.) \*lily . . . sweet . . . female . . . \* 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FreakFreely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@FreakFreely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FreakFreely)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/49 "2000-07-17T20:39:03Z")
This masogynism is just dumb. You act like women’s faults make them worse then men. They don’t. They just make women about as bad as men. People suck, so get over it and look for their good qualities. Show me a person with no flaws, and I’ll show you a mannequin. That said, sure, let the women take over the world. It could use a good cleaning. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/50 "2000-07-17T20:54:20Z")
Your **Man Card** has just been revoked! Sucking-up for the women of SDMB is no excuse. Go dismantle your car with only a screwdriver and you can have your **Man Card** back. In fairness if the women out here want a lengthty discourse on the problems with men check out this link to the _SCUM Manifesto_ by Valerie Solanas (the woman who shot Andy Warhol). A more complete trashing of the male side of the species I’ve never seen. Kinda funny really. [http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/shivers/rants/scum.html](http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/shivers/rants/scum.html) ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/51 "2000-07-17T21:11:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\*Y’know, Whammo, if you’re gonna be like that, I’d appreciate your leaving my name out of it. > > Thanks. \*\* Aaaawwwwwaahhh…_ **BOOGERS!!!** _ _ **WOMEN!!!** _ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Amulet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Amulet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amulet)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/52 "2000-07-17T21:14:20Z")
Um, Jeff, dearheart, I think his “sucking up” was totally negated (and then some) by his last line… > [@](#): > > That said, sure, let the women take over the world. It could use a good cleaning. Ha ha. As far as driving goes: my ex-husband is the world’s **worst** driver. Ever. He squats his ass in the left lane, going a mere five miles over the speed limit, brakes before he gets onto the exit ramp (ARGH!!!), and doesn’t quite get the concept of the on ramp, either. I cannot count the number of events we missed because of his suck-ass sense of direction and utter refusal to listen to me when I have printed directions and a goddamned **map** in my hands. Nor can I count the number of times I prayed to God above to not let us rearend the car he’s not paying attention to. And we won’t even discuss the times he got out of the car to confront someone he pissed off. Yep, men are such excellent drivers. You know, Whammo, I feel sorry for your wife. Between the broken vent and the sprinkler heads, you sure are a slow learner. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/53 "2000-07-17T21:18:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SwimmingRiddles \* > \*\* > > Maybe if Whammo \* was\* “getting down” on his woman, she would be more responcive to him. 😃 \*\* OH, I dont get down on her in person… I just bite my tounge and post to the SDMB. I dont think its nice to be mean just to persuade someone. Thats what you mean right? ---
**Author:** ![FreakFreely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@FreakFreely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FreakFreely)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/54 "2000-07-17T21:20:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Go dismantle your car with only a screwdriver and you can have your Man Card back. You Pussy! I don’t have a car! I ride a dog-sled to and from work… on asphalt roads! I scare even the Hell’s Angels with my dog sled! That’s right, lots of big dogs! Lots of big, sweaty dogs! Lots of big, sweaty, stinky dogs! Big, sweaty, stinky, mean DOGS!!! That piss everywhere and hump anything in sight! Over 200 miles of asphalt I drive to work every day, with sparks flying behind me! Halfway there, I stop and get breakfast by chasing down a rabbit and catching him with my teeth! Then devour it whole as I enjoy the feeling of by teeth rending flesh and crushing bones! I scream obscenities at the other drivers! I compare penises with them and grunt gorilla-like! I scream war slogans at the top of my lungs as I speed down the highway like Mad Max! Finally, when I get to work (I’m a professional shit-kicker), I get off the sled, and piss on it to mark it as my territory! The whole thing takes about four hours, so I can only be there for about ten minutes before I have to leave and do the whole thing over again. So, do I get my man card? ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/55 "2000-07-17T21:30:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Amulet \* > \*\* > > You know, Whammo, I feel sorry for your wife. Between the broken vent and the sprinkler heads, you sure are a slow learner. 😃 \*\* **_WIFE?!?!_ WHEN DID I GET MARRIED?!?!** [elderly black woman]OH GOD OH JESUS OH GOD OH JESUS OH GOD OH JESUS… SAVE ME JESUS SAVE ME JESUS SAAAAAAAVE ME JESUS[/elderly black woman] Slow learner ehh?? You think thats it?? I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/56 "2000-07-17T21:36:49Z")
I guess that counts. I promise it’s in the mail… P.S. You’ll need to send a video of all that however for…um…shipping and handling. Yeah, shipping and handling AND a six pack of beer for our infinite patience. Pabst Blue Ribbon will do. If not that then Black Label. No weenie ‘boutique’ beers for us MEN! ---
**Author:** ![Amulet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Amulet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amulet)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/57 "2000-07-17T21:47:26Z")
Jesus, Whammo, if you’re not married you’re doing one helluva killer imitation of it. ---
**Author:** ![Amulet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Amulet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amulet)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/58 "2000-07-17T21:49:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff\_42 \* > P.S. You’ll need to send a video of all that however for…um…shipping and handling. Yeah, shipping and handling AND a six pack of beer for our infinite patience. Pabst Blue Ribbon will do. If not that then Black Label. No weenie ‘boutique’ beers for us MEN! What? No Zima or Tequiza\*? (\*Froot Loops and Pledge, actually, if you wanna know the secret ingredient) ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/59 "2000-07-17T22:02:00Z")
I forgot to add: I like beer ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781/60 "2000-07-17T22:09:46Z")
Face it, guys. You’re _scared._ You’re petrified of us wimmen that can actually accomplish something (hats off to the astounding techchick!). You’re just afraid that there’s something (well, LOTS of somethings) that we can do _better_ than you. I will admit that as I am driving down a road, I do not know which direction I am traveling. But I can indeedy read a map. My husband knows which direction we are traveling, but he cannot find the shortest distance between point A & point B, even with a map, compass, and a damn sherpa riding shotgun. > [@](#): > > Fire is GOOD!! Fire is your friend. Females! Away from sacred grill and get thee to your serving wench duties! So much you do not understand about the Grilling Arts. It is not your place, BEGONE!!! Fire is GOOD, More Fire is GOOD, Beer is GOOD, Flammables are GOOD! Fire, Beer, and Flammables!! Bwahaaaahaaaa!!! I will also humbly concede the grill, too. The grilling ability in my household sits firmly in my husband’s 'nads. We went to a barbecue five years ago, and it was then that I found out that my husband had never grilled, ever, in his life. We brought steaks, and had to cook them somehow. I knew my grilling ability was limited, so I handed the steaks over to him and said “be one with the steak, dear. Let your testosterone take over, and you will be able to grill.” He did, and those steaks were _flawless._ He’s been the official Grillmeister ever since. I did have to holler at him a few weeks ago, though, about the fire. He had set the grill up about three inches from the house. Our new house. That we had only been living in for two weeks. HELLO. Oh, and “serving wench duties,” dear Bluepony? I cordially invite you to _blow me._ I won’t take that shit from my _children,_ so I surely won’t take it from _you,_ Donut Boy. But it _would_ be cool if you could set the beer on fire. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-thing-about-wimmins-is/25781.md?page=4)