# Women don't get it, and every guy does **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 28, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484 "2009-10-28T18:06:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/41 "2009-10-28T19:38:30Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I get it, but I have to admit, I’m not a big fan of dinosaurs, ninjas, and swords. However, I see nothing wrong with a card that has a '57 Chevy, Indiana Jones, and John Maclean from _Die Hard_. I think Jimbo’s card would have a Ferrari, a Star Trek logo, and Captain Kirk. Possibly Captain Kirk IN a Ferrari. 😃 ETA: With a severe case of flatulence. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/42 "2009-10-28T19:44:47Z")
> [@rhubarbarin](#): > > I have a 6 year old nephew and all he draws are flowers, animals, and **people.** I don’t think incorperating ninjas into everything is an across the board ‘boy thing’. It’s surely more common in boys.. Ninjas are people. Are you sure they’re not ninjas? Also, Frankenstein is people, so one of them might be Frankenstein. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/43 "2009-10-28T19:47:46Z")
I’m a woman and I get it – the woman in question has a bunch of artwork she needs to use on a Christmas card and since it’s by her son, it only features stereotypically “boy” things. She is a responsible recycler unlike men and is resourcefully finding a way to use what she has on her cards. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/44 "2009-10-28T19:49:02Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > To those who don’t get it, I think the key word here is “son”. Little boys like dinosaurs and ninjas and swords. Even on Christmas cards. No boy worthy of the name would even think about drawing a tasteful and serene family-around-the-tree type picture. Not unless the family had a severe case of flatulence. > > - **MIS!** , female Thank you. I think the question isn’t so much what would be cool on a Christmas card, but rather what would a little boy think would go well on a Christmas card. If I were tasked with designing a Christmas card when I was little, it would have included dinosaurs, sharks, and Micronauts. We didn’t have ninjas in the 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/45 "2009-10-28T19:52:27Z")
I’m a girl, and I get it somewhat - the ninjas part anyway. I also have [this bumper sticker](http://www.cafepress.com/theevilwriter2.197116425)\* on my car, though. \*full disclosure, I designed the sticker and it’s my store ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/46 "2009-10-28T19:52:57Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > What, you can’t put Thomas the Tank Engine through a woodchipper? With ninjas and pirates looking on from atop their laser-eyed dinosaurs? Of course you can’t put Thomas through a woodchipper. He’s made of iron. Toby, on the other hand. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/47 "2009-10-28T19:54:44Z")
I’m more of a “World War II airplane making strafing runs” kind of guy, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/48 "2009-10-28T19:55:06Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I think Jimbo’s card would have a Ferrari, a Star Trek logo, and Captain Kirk. Possibly Captain Kirk IN a Ferrari. 😃 > > ETA: With a severe case of flatulence. I think Captain Kirk driving a Ferrari past a group of ninjas fighting a laser-eyed dinosaur would be extremely awesome. I can handle the flatulence all by myself, thanks. I don’t need it on my Christmas cards – that’d just be tacky. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/49 "2009-10-28T19:59:18Z")
You know, unless it’s a Tyrannosaurus Rex flying an F-15, it just doesn’t meet the _Calvin and Hobbes_ Coolness Quotient[sup]TM[/sup], and that is the ruler by which I measure all coolness. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/50 "2009-10-28T20:01:30Z")
What kind of isolated, ignorant f\*\*\* has never heard of _The Christmas Ninja_? ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/51 "2009-10-28T20:04:05Z")
I need some clarification, when you ask if Jesus bleongs on a Christmas card are you talking about Zombie Jesus, or just, you know, Jesus Jesus? ---
**Author:** ![Walpurgis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Walpurgis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walpurgis)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/52 "2009-10-28T20:05:11Z")
Girl here, and I get it. So would all my female friends. We’re geeks. Isn’t this a geek thing more than it is a male/female thing? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/53 "2009-10-28T20:13:33Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > To those who don’t get it, I think the key word here is “son”. Little boys like dinosaurs and ninjas and swords. Even on Christmas cards. Here, I think “little boy” means “male under 55.” But **Walpurgis** is probably right that it’s a geek thing. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/54 "2009-10-28T20:17:29Z")
Middlebro would have put in a submarine. I still believe that informing him that “there are situations a submarine isn’t appropriate for” was most inappropriate and should have been considered as cruelty to children! Littlebro would have put footie players, only he can’t draw worth shit, so the only ones able to recognize that the picture had footie players would have been him and Middlebro. If you want to lose at Pictionary, let them pair up. I didn’t draw between k-1 and 5th grade, trauma caused by maternal unit in collusion with teachery unit. I swear the worst part of childhood is grown-ups. The Nephew wants to put Pocoyo in everything. Dora is an acceptable substitute in case of emergency. A suggestion from an Idiot Grownup about Pocoyo marrying Dora was met with The Nephew turning to his mom, giving her a rolleyes bigger than himself and declaring that “I am going to my room! The stuffed bunny has better conversation!” (he just turned 4 last month, this incident is from last spring). The Niece doesn’t draw yet, but Pocoyo appears to be acceptable. Opinions on ninjas weren’t available the last time I was with her. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/55 "2009-10-28T20:26:56Z")
I am yet another female who gets your reference. And, yes, it’s true - [everything’s better with ninjas.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja) Come on, Santa Claus has to have had some amount of ninja training. I mean, he arrives, drops off presents, and leaves, all with a high degree of cunning, stealth, and precision. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/56 "2009-10-28T20:27:10Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > What kind of isolated, ignorant f\*\*\* has never heard of _The Christmas Ninja_? Said the Rankin-Bass animated Fred Astaire… ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/57 "2009-10-28T21:20:28Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > I’m getting married soon and I tried to sell my fiance on getting married on a pirate ship but he won’t go for it. He wants to have a classy, elegant wedding.:rolleyes:😃 I hate to be the one to have to tell you … Your fiance was born a chick. And not a cool, Linda Hamilton T2 chick but a Sansa Stark sighing chick. Sorry. I hope you have a brother to squish bugs for you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/58 "2009-10-28T21:51:16Z")
I’m a male and I just don’t get the point of cards. Yay, somebody sent some generic Christmas message on a piece of paper at me. Gee, haven’t heard something like this since… last year! More presents, less cards. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/59 "2009-10-28T22:04:15Z")
> [@Epimetheus](#): > > I’m a male and I just don’t get the point of cards. Yay, somebody sent some generic Christmas message on a piece of paper at me. Gee, haven’t heard something like this since… last year! > > More presents, less cards. The cards are just dead trees. No one cares about those. It’s the wads of cash inside that people love. And the ninjas. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484/60 "2009-10-28T22:14:41Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > I not only don’t get ninjas on a Christmas card, I don’t get this entire thread. The clue phone in my cubicle doesn’t ring very often. Most, although not all, males cease their artistic and emotional development at about age 9, at which point, ninjas dinosaurs, carnage, explosions and such are the epitome of visual communication. Some continue to mature as artists, but these themes never lose their hold. For example, Leonardo DaVinci painted the Mona Lisa. He also lived before dinosaurs were discovered, and was very far from Japan. However, he was able to overcome these obstacles by\* inventing tanks and helicopters so that the he would have something awesome to draw\*. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-dont-get-it-and-every-guy-does/515484.md?page=4)