3 Things Men Don't Like (But Women Seem To Love)
Men just aren't into shopping, flowers or the telephone.
Stop me if you've heard this one: men seem to be from one planet while women are from another planet altogether. While making sweeping gender generalizations borders on insulting, there are some Martian tendencies on our part and Venusian on y'all's part (aw, crap, now I've done it). Read:10 Simple Things Women Want
1. Flowers. Our homeys at The Frisky bumped into a major Mars-Venus issue: Flowers. Their resident dude writer, John DeVore, backs the floral industry and makes several salient points as to why flowers are important...a good read. While I agree with him, I can see why "other" dudes just aren't that into cut flowers. Read: Why Do Flowers Make Us Swoon?
They don't do anything funny or weird—they just sit there. Even with maximum upkeep they don't last terribly long, and you always have the distinct feeling you're being ripped off when you buy them. Women, on the other hand, have a keener sense of smell and smaller likelihood of color blindness.
While the sentimentality of flowers ("ohh, he was thinking of me") isn't 100 percent lost on us, we generally only get sentimental when something happens to a sports legend from our youth or when the song "Cat's In The Cradle" comes on the radio. Read: Pointlessness of Poinsettias And Flower Power
2. Talking on the phone. Guys generally don't like talking on the phone. Why? Well, Em & Lo ( EmAndLo.com) asked their man panel why guys don't dig gabbing on the mobile (it's not practical, men don't like to share emotions) and I'd like to add a bit.
When dudes are on the telephone for long stretches, we have a hard time doing anything else worthwhile. This is fine if you're having "the talk" (or any important discussion), but we have a hard time chatting just for fun. Women seem to be different in this regard. There's a good chance that a knitting, resume-updating or nail-painting operation could be going down on the other end of the line, while our powers of conversation are being stretched to their limits just listening and formulating reasonable responses.
It should be noted that phone sex is one area in which we can basically keep up two jobs at once. (And the boys from Entourage seem to be able to have actual sex and handle a phone call at the same time. Read: 11 Love Lessons From Entourage)
Discussion
females have hightened senses of smell compared to males thus they like flowers
talking appeals to their humanistic parts which need affection
shopping I love shopping when I have money and saying theirs a difference between male shopping and female shopping is untrue though in the past it could have been true
men are now as upsest with fasion as any girl this is mostly do to the "gansta" mentality that prevails through the youth.
not to bash my own sex but I see why men hate these things. flowers do die and shopping really shouldn't be "looking" it should be buy and go. let's not forget some men do like pampering they will never turn down a back rub or the chance to be in a tub with you. ladies you gotta spoil your man too even if it's playing video games or trying a new trick in bed he does it you should too
Talking on the phone = I love it as long as I'm talking with a person who can hold there end of the conversation also. The one thing I don't like is when a person don't talk much and I'm the one trying to ask all the questions.
Flowers = I enjoy gardening so I love them, sorry if that makes me sound unmanly lol but yeah I love Red Roses especially.
Shopping = As bookmama said, it really depends on the store. What I hate about shopping is going into a store with no idea what to buy. I love to shop as long as I'm on a mission and know what to buy. Looking is ok but buying is the fun part. Put me in a music store or online shopping for dvds and I LOVE to shop.
Hah. I had a word count issue...
Sort of funny, Samsung did a survey and 36% of women (13% of men) would rather go a year without sex than a year without their phones:
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/New-Yorkers-Like-Sex-a-Bit-Mor...
I didn't realize, though, that women were more likely to prefer text to talking than men. They may have been interviewing teenage girls for that part (idk, my bff Jill?).
I am surprised you could only come up with three. I think I could write you a corporate length laundry list of things haha
