Ah, Sweet Mysteries of Manhood
Republican men – you can’t love ‘um and you can’t kick ‘um.
Please allow me to introduce Nebraska state Sen. Bill Kintner, a man who calls himself a Christian, and has apparently recently been named Reserve Champion Men You’d Like to Kick, Patronizing Division.
When asked what he would consider his “biggest mystery,” Kintner replied: “Women. No one understands them. They don’t even understand themselves. Books and books and books have been written about it, and no one understands it.”
But, Kintner adds, he does not suffer from the same crippling lack of self-knowledge as the more mysterious half of the population: “Men are very easy to understand. Very basic, very simple,” he said.
Yes, very simple. Simply needing to be kicked.
Thanks to Carl for the heads up.
As in simpletons. Well said sir. Men are usually crippled in their understanding by the total lack of introspection and empathy. Although you guys who comment here are not normal. You are supermen and we love you.
1Yep, two of my favorite t-shirts from the 80s were:
Body by Nautilus
Brain by Mattel
…and
I like the simple things in life: wine, sunsets…
(and on the back)…men…
I bought the first one for my then-boyfriend-now-husband, who was suitably amused and wore the dang thing! In public no less! I never did get the other one, but I think of it fondly.
2If I were an elected official I would think twice about saying something that would annoy much of my constituency. Of course, the act of thinking sort of rules one out as a Rethuglican anyway!
June Bug, no kidding. (Likewise, I shout out to the fellers here, and in my life, who grew tons of empathy. Atta boy, fellers!)
I think it’s that too many men are allowed to go through life without having to have empathy for anyone who’s not like them. They get excused for all kinds of horrible behavior with a “boys will be boys” line, but women, we have to be responsible for everything that everyone does around us, even them dumb critters we don’t even know. Then it’s “oh, well are you sure you said no?” and “what did you do to lead him on?” and all of that garbage.
Guys, if you’re a guy, and you hear another guy say something this ridiculous, call him out on it. Remind him that women are people, not some exotic species of pet or prize that you win at the county fair for being All Things Manly. They ‘re brainwashed into not hearing it from us. But they’ll hear it from YOU.
3Course that sap would be better off with those reams of books about women if he could read more than the three and four letter words….
Ok, not really. Maybe his tights are too tight?
4I suspect there are a whole lot of things this guy does not understand in addition to the majority of the human race.
What is truly weird is that he seems proud of it.
5June Bug, I think you’re not making a distinction. There are men, who are intelligent human beings and know that most women are too, and then there are guys, who are better at belching and scratching (no matter their education level and ability to dress themselves) and who couldn’t hold an intelligent conversation with an intelligent woman if their lives depended on it. This yahoo is obviously a guy. He’s right in that guys are pretty easy to understand, sadly enough.
6If state Sen Kinter admits he doesn’t understand half of his constituents, or have a clue about what they want, maybe he should also realize he’s not the best guy to represent them.
7Rick, as a Nebraskan let me just add my two cents, a large majority of our elected officials, in this state, aren’t the best guy or gal to represent their constituents.
8I find it interesting that those people who are too dumb to figure things out are simply too dumb to figure out how dumb they are.
9Evidently these simpleminded embiciles fail to recall just who it was that pushed them in to this world … Yo Momma, honey! Perhaps they all think they magically appeared under a cabbage leaf in the Garden of Life.
How do they look in a mirror at themselves? Face their Mothers? Face their wives or girlfriends … if they have one!!
Simply pathetic!!
10When men say they don’t understand women, they are really implying that we are so irrational and ruled by our emotions that we cannot be dealt with logically and rationally.
11That sentiment is always a put-down meant to shore up the egos of misogynists.
No wonder God decided to put the embryos under the jurisdiction of women.
12No wonder I’ve always gotten along with most women rather than most men.
13Women are an “it”?
14@Corinne Sabo … I wonder if the “it” the idiot refers to might be the feminine mystique … that unsolveable “thing” that us women seem to have! Most men definitely don’t get “it” … except our sweet ScottyBeamer … by golly, he gets it! ;o)
15Even males of good heart find their wife and daughters the biggest mysteries with which they contend.
Years and years ago when I was a chile, my sainted father had been gone doing Marine things for many months. My sainted mother had gone from unhappy about that to really really unhappy. So when he did show up he was bearing gifts in biblical caravan quantity. One gift for momma was a (very odd) piece of sculpture. Attached to it was a card with this Poe quote on it “There is no exquisite beauty, … without some strangeness in the proportion.” (You ladies are thinking, a card with a POE quote on it when she was so hissed off her eyes were crossed????? Really????) Well that cost whatever the price of the sculpture was plus replacing the broken china and dents in the wall of the ones that missed. He died in his late 80’s never understating what made her mad. I’m not much better but you can bet you a$$ when I dredge up a quote from the interweb for a gift card for my little bride or one of my little princesses Poe aint the author!
16once asked a guy (not really seriously asked but he seemed to be unable to handle anything else) just what makes a guy a guy. Eating, sleeping, drinking, farting were just part of the answer I got from the Eternal Frat Boy. You can guess the rest. My response to the whole thing was : hey, you just described a pig!
Would you believe he didn’t get it?
17He’s probably deeply and sincerely puzzled about the eternal mystery: why ARE there women that vote for Republicans in general, or him in particular?
18Ya know y’all, they are handicapped! Look:
X X
X y
That poor little old second “X” is missing one of it’s legs! It’s a tripod! Must be lotsa good stuff stored up there on that leg….
(this is very effective with a pen and a cocktail napkin! And I try to take all people as I find them, but it’s very hard to resist making fun sometimes. How do they get elected??)
19It was hotter than hell last night and the upstairs AC wasn’t working which all put me in mind of something that had been buggin’ me about this Minter guy. Do y’all remember the guy Ross Perot picked as his vice presidential running mate during that delusional “campaign” of some years ago? This poor old guy opened up his first and only TV appearance with “What am I doing here!” I swear that both he and Minter come from the same place, central casting for nutty white guys, which oddly enough is the same central casting place for all the mixed up mismatched furniture in our old summer cottage.
20My favorite movie quote is from a song in Mary Poppins, of all places. The mother, a feminist who is tolerated by the banker father, sings, “Although we adore men in-divid-ual-ly, we agree that as a group they’re ra-ther stu-pid”.
21Well, I think his quote about his relationship with “the woman”, his name for his wife (speaks volumes there!), “We don’t talk about what she does on her side and what I do on my side. There’s no sharing of inside information.”, says alot about why women are a mystery to him. If he’d try talking to women, starting with his wife, he might grow to understand them.
22Men who can’t take the time or trouble to talk to and empathize with the women in their lives make this broad generalization about not understanding “women”. Of course, we women who hear this said may also generalize about “men” being obtuse. The fact is, we are all individuals with different ways of communicating. The real gem of a partner is one who makes the effort and finds a way to understand and tries to show an appreciation of the “other”.
23I’d call this guy a goober! But tell me, how DO women raise men like this? Or do they just become stupid when they move out on their own?
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