13 Male Habits The World Could Do Without
We love men, but we don't adore all their habits.
Guys, we love you. You make our hearts swoon, you're the fathers of our children, you are advisers, companions and friends, but there are certain gender-specific things you do that drive women nuts. For example, leaving the toilet seat up? We know this is a clichéd male complaint, but seriously. It's rude. Your momma raised you wrong if you find it hard to flush and lower before leaving the bathroom.
With sweet smiles on our faces and love in our hearts, we present a list of habits, fashion decisions and other things you do that the world would (most likely) be better off without. We know the ladies at The Frisky agree with us on number one. Read their list of 19 other irksome male habits here.
1. Scratching yourself in public.
2. Whistling at us. This works for getting a dog's attention, not a woman's.
3. Making dangerous gentleman's wagers (this includes credit card roulette with our "joint" bank account and eating five pounds of steak to prove a point).
4. Refusing to dance when sober... then refusing to leave the dance floor when drunk.
5. Wearing any the following: cut-off jean shorts, socks with sandals, sandals with unkempt toenails, or Crocs.
6. Shaving, waxing or plucking your uni-brow, back or shoulders and then telling us you didn't. We can see the stubble, dude! Read Waxing Poetic About Waxing My Back
7. Describing your bowel movements and/or trying to show us your efforts while they're still in the toilet.
8. Doing accents that aren't spot-on.
9. Referring proudly to any accomplishment you make in the virtual world, including the mention of Facebook friend totals.
10. Thinking birth control is not your responsibility. Read 7 Ways Male Birth Control Will Change Everything
11. Believing you look good in relaxed fit jeans.
12. Thinking that it's not a meal if there's no meat involved.
13. Making bad household decisions, such as shoving sweaty socks under the couch, inviting the guys over to watch basketball without telling us and "pleaning"—cleaning something so poorly we're prompted to say "Man, this was a piss-poor cleaning."
Readers, we know your man has some objectionable habits. Tell us what they are in the comments!
Discussion
My pick of male habits I can live without? 6-hour (or longer) gaming marathons, throwing dirty socks wherever, not thoroughly cleaning up the dingleberries, and expecting me to do extracurricular activities with his nether regions when he hasn't showered in over a day. Sweaty ball smell is NOT a turn-on! I'll keep my girl parts clean if you keep your man parts clean. Seriously!
Oh! And I don't want to see what you just made in the toilet. And no, you can't see mine either! Speaking of which, when you're done stinking up the bathroom, PLEASE use air freshener! That's why it's in there!
to liftsheavymetal: get over yourself honey...no one givs a s**t if you can lift weights.. and the reason why your single, cuz your a jackass
I do agree with liftsheavymetal. If your ass is big honey, your ass is big and squeezin it into a tight pair of pants just oozes it up (or down) somewhere else!! Women are just as gross as men and there should be a list like that for us too. Like the G string 6 inches above their jeans when they clearly haven't eaten a vegetable unless it was on a burger or a taco! Anyway, My hubby is good about putting the toilet seat down. He always did. But he jokingly says why don't women let it UP when they are done! It goes both ways. I grew up in the 80's, I don't mind the A-Team and Night Rider hulu fests. He watches it when I'm watching a show that he's not interested in and if I want a little retro when I was a kid moment, I go watch it with him. And I do remember Airwolf! He was pretty cute! Sandles and socks together were never in but my father still thinks they are cool and got married 3 years ago in a pair of crocs YIKES! and he even wears velcro sneakers....God love him!
To the author:
Why are you trying to stir up trouble by asking the women to write down what bothers them? How about you ask them what they like? Maybe you could create some positive energy instead of negative energy.
I intend to leave the toilet seat up unless someone specifically asks me to lower it. If that's the case, then they will need to agree to lift it. I will also continue to believe that a meal has to have meat in it. I like vegetables too, but leave us alone about the meat. All women want to eat are carbs, and usually simple ones at that and then ask us if their butt looks big. Well, keep eating simple carbs and not eating protein and your ass WILL be huge. And don't ask us if the pants/ shorts make your ass look big. If your ass looks big it's because it IS big! So eat some protein with your meals. Women always ask me how to get in shape, then they continue their bad eating habits. One definition of 'insanity' is to continue doing the same thing and expect different results. Maybe just because you disagree with meat at every meal doesn't mean it's wrong. It means you are opinionated.
You know what? It's not his momma's fault if he doesn't lower the seat and flush. I guarantee you I taught my kids how to use the toilet properly when they were little. Something strange happens to teenagers.
We moms do our best, but sometimes we have to rely on our boys caring what girls their age think.
I was thinking about the toilet seat thing, why is it that it's the men who has to change? Relationships are about comprimise right? How about the ladies leaving the toilet seat down and the men leave it up, that way, both have to adust the toilet seat to their liking when they need to do business. The idea that men should always leave the toilet seat down seems one sided.
The problem here is that men don't want to lower the damn seat because they're lazy and seem to feel it's their god-given right to leave the seat up. Not every guy on the planet, mind you, but every guy I've dated. Women don't want to have to lower the seat every time because we HAVE to sit down to use the pot. Men don't. See where I'm getting at? If men think taking a leak standing up is so important, then they can put the seat down when they're done too. With great power comes great responsibility (lol that was lame).
A side story... When I was pregnant, my guy left the seat up and I fell in in the middle of the night during one of my many pregnant sprints to the bathroom. After I threatened to take the damn seat off and beat him senseless with it, he didn't leave it up again. Until after I had the baby. No, apparently now the seat is fair game again.
Here's the best justification I can come up with. Women always need to sit down. If we sit down in the middle of the night and the lid is up, it is cold, uncomfortable and disgusting. The consequences of not putting it down are worse than the consequences of leaving it up.
Also, since men do sometimes sit down, if it is normally down when you go into the bathroom, the chances are higher that it will be in the right position. Especially if you factor in that we use the toilet more often.
Another fashion mishap...Sleeveless shirts...as in Larry the Cable Guy! I mean really...OMG! If the shirt was made with sleeves...leave them there...PLEASE!
About the toilet seat thing, i just dont understand it, women always say how hard is it for a man to drop the lid. Well the obvious answer is it must be severly hard if no woman can do it. Why is it a man's responisibility to raise the seat, do his business then drop the seat again? For you women who can't lower a seat I say you have two options. Drop the seat yourself or sit on a urine encrusted mess.
8,10 ans 13 my man is completely guilty of. Especially 8. He's part irish (but has never been to ireland and neither parents have an accent) and constantly talks in a very cliche lephrecaun-esque accent. Got more annoying after I spent some time on a job with a few Irish folk and realized just how far off his accent really was.
"...sandals with unkempt toenails or Crocs." So, I shouldn't wear sandals with unkempt Crocs. Got it.
"Doing accents that aren't spot-on." If/when women consistently crack good jokes, then we'll talk; until then, my accents shall continue, whether they be "spot-on." or not.
"Referring proudly to any accomplishment you make in the virtual world, including the mention of Facebook friend totals." Um... ok. The only people who I have ever heard bragging about how many Facebook friends they had were female.
The A-Team KILLS ME. Literally, whenever he starts watching it on Hulu it's like someone stabbed my brain. Literally. And I haven't heard of AirWolf, but OMG if its anything like the others it could ruin me. Isn't it enough that I committed to a summer of watching Firefly with him? Can't we just compromise on Firefly?
Although, this maybe revenge for that summer I made him watch 6 seasons of Jeeves and Wooster. A delightful BBC comedy, based upon equally delightful british novels. I don't know why he didn't chortle with delight whenever Bertie Wooster was up to his shenanigans.
