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I know the
myth is that men want Traci Lords in the bedroom,
Julia Child
in the kitchen,
Hazel around
the house,
Lesley Visser
during a game,
Mary Poppins
for the children,
Cha Cha
Muldowney in traffic,
Dr. Quinn,
Medicine Chick when we're sick,
Mary Richards
at work,
Mother
Theresa when we come home with leprosy,
Gertrude
Stein in conversation,
the body of
Sophia Loren in 'Boy on a Dolphin'
combined with
the voice of Sade,
and to top it
all off, the IQ of Anna Nicole Smith, because of course we don't want
to feel too threatened.
So if that's
the myth of what we want, what's the reality?
Well, first
put that Cosmo article down right now and back slowly away from
the magazine. Now go to the window and take a deep breath.
You must
clear your head of bullshit articles like "How to Trick Your Man
into Cooking Tex-Mex." Trick me? How about asking me? And then
I'll be able to tell you I don't have a fucking clue what Tex-Mex is, okay?!
All right,
I'm not supposed to do this. I'm not supposed to reveal the master
list to all you non-tripods, but what the hell; here goes:
Here's what
men want from women. One through Ten:
ONE...
We want you
to understand that we don't give a shit about clothes, all right?
Yours OR ours. All we need is one pair of tennies and one pair of
church shoes. That's it.
TWO...
Don't talk to
us while the television is on, all right? Very simple:
Television is
off, we talk. Television is on, we don't talk.
THREE...
When you're
behind the wheel of a car, if you want to get aggressive, that's
fine, but don't give somebody the finger and expect me to defend your
honor when Steroid Lad comes over swinging a pair of nunchucks, all right?
FOUR...
Would it kill
you to watch 'The Godfather' with me for the fifty-seventh time?
FIVE...
Hey I'm
sorry, but some of us see a beautiful sunset and think, "You
know, I betcha my accountant is boning me up the ass."
SIX...
You go see
Nell by yourself, all right? I met enough chicks like that at The
Drink when I was single.
SEVEN...
Have a sense
of humor. Without a sense of humor, a relationship lasts about as
long David Duke at a Black Panther meeting.
EIGHT...
Work out your
job-related anger before we have sex. Just because Helmut, the office
boy, brought you the "cup" of lima bean consomme instead of
the "bowl" of lima bean consomme from Soup Plantation, I
don't want to end up in the friction burn groin ward at Cedars-Sinai,
all right?
NINE...
Don't ask us
to cry. As much as you say you want us to cry, you don't really want
us to cry. You hate it when we cry. I've tried crying in front of my
wife. She enjoyed it for about thirty seconds and then started
thinking, "Why in the fuck did I marry this hamster?"
TEN...
Be patient.
Hold us. Love us unconditionally. Help us out of this testosterone
induced fog we dwell in and lead us into the light. Or if that's
asking too much, how's about a big sloppy blowjob once in a while?
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