This is news?

[rgraham666]

A new study shows that men don't get it.

Quelle surprise.

 

[neonlyte]

Yeh... men's brains are off by about a metre

 

[Guest]

We love you anyway.

 

[rgraham666]

We love you anyway.

Thank God for that.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I don't even understand the damned study.

 

[jomar]

"Women are just more likely to have guys coming on to them," he says, adding that this kicks in a defensive response, "Oh, I've got to watch out for the relationship."

This makes sense to me. Guys aren't used to fending off advances. In fact, they're usually so few and far between we welcome them, even if we don't act on them. If we recognize it, that is.

 

[Guest]

I don't even understand the damned study.

I didn't read it.

I just gave the appropriate expected female response.

 

[rengadeirishman]

i dotn understand what theyre talking abot

 

[DesertPirate]

Who? Me?

 

[3113]

I don't even understand the damned study.

i dotn understand what theyre talking abot

Very funny guys. Er...wait. You're serious? Oh, wait. Irish is just drunk.

What men apparently didn't get in this study was the danger of a flirt to their committed relationship. I, myself, am a little leery and confused by the tests themselves. For example:

In one experiment, a meeting with an "available, attractive alternative" was closely followed by the discovery their partner had done something that irritated them, such as reveal an embarrassing detail to others. The men got angry. The women, however, became more loving and forgiving.

So, you see an attractive stranger giving you the "come-hither" look then hear that your partner has fucked up. The women forgave their male partners implying that they knew that getting mad could lead them to breaking with their partner and going after that attractive stranger ("This is a test of my commitment to my lover! I must forgive and be loving to my man and not give into these impulses to use this as an excuse to go after that sexy hunk who flirted with me!") But couldn't they just have been feeling guilty for flirting with a stranger?

The men, on the other hand, got mad, implying that they didn't see that weakening the relationship made them more vulnerable to going after the flirt.

Apparently, they were clueless to the fact that anger right after flirting can lead to break-up. Or were they? I kinda wonder if maybe the men did see it and welcomed an excuse to go running after the stranger. ("Hooray, she did something fucked up. I can leave her for that flirt!").

I do find this test really strange:

When presented with the letters LO(space)AL, men wrote "local" while women chose "loyal."

Similarly, BE(space)A(space)E was " became" to men, and "beware" to the women.

Something's wrong with me, because I saw the LO-AL and thought "Local" not "Loyal" and BE-A-E well, I erased an "E" and went for "BABE." I kinda think this part of the test doesn't really work so well.....

 

[Stella_Omega]

I'm inclined to like the Star's readership-- so many of the comments are thoughtful and not merely kneejerk reactions. Many of them mention how badly the article is written, and how ambiguously these findings are reported.

(weird grammar here, sorry... )

 

[cantdog]

Very true, Stella. The article is so flip and frivolous that no one could tell, from reading it, what the study actually was, and the conclusions the article draws are irreflective witticisms, probably having nothing much in common with the conclusions of the study. Still, it makes for a fine little cocktail-party conversation.

 

[rengadeirishman]

it seems like bullshit to me

 

[Guest]

Very true, Stella. The article is so flip and frivolous that no one could tell, from reading it, what the study actually was, and the conclusions the article draws are irreflective witticisms, probably having nothing much in common with the conclusions of the study. Still, it makes for a fine little cocktail-party conversation.

*snicker*

You said cock.

 

[Liar]

*snicker*

You said cock.

You said ick.

 

[rgraham666]

I'm inclined to like the Star's readership-- so many of the comments are thoughtful and not merely kneejerk reactions. Many of them mention how badly the article is written, and how ambiguously these findings are reported.

(weird grammar here, sorry... )

The Star is the most hated newspaper in Canada, Stella. In many quarters you'll almost always hear 'The Toronto Star' and 'fucking liberals' in the same breath.

 

[cantdog]

The Star is the most hated newspaper in Canada, Stella. In many quarters you'll almost always hear 'The Toronto Star' and 'fucking liberals' in the same breath.

Fucking some liberals. Now there's a notion...

 

[Guest]

Fucking some liberals. Now there's a notion...

It's a good notion.

 

[rgraham666]

I have happy memories of fucking some liberals.

 

[redpaint]

Uh.... I don't get it.

 

[SeaCat]

I can't speak for anyone else but,,,,

If you are in a long term relationship and feel so insecure that flirting is a danger to said relationship then maybe it is time to take another look at that relationship.

There are a couple of old statements that hold true here.
I'm married but I'm not blind.
I don't care where he gets his appetite as long as he eats at home.

Cat