7 Things Guys Need to Get Over

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7 Things Guys Need to Get Over

BEFORE I EVEN START THIS, FEEL ABSOLUTELY FREE to write your own list in another take because we all know both sexes talk about the other one. I'm not trying to pretend we don't and you shouldn't pretend either. It's tongue and cheek here (surprise! neither sex is actually going to get over it), so if you're taking it super personal, feel some sort of compulsory need to mention the word "feminism," or you just hate all women...that's on you. Get over it!

1. Get over who pays for the first date

7 Things Guys Need to Get Over

If you ask someone out, expect to pay. That has nothing to do with you being a guy, it has to do with you asking someone out. If I invite you over to my house for dinner, I don't expect you to cook the meal. In fact, what kind of a-hole says, come over to my house for dinner, but you know, by the way, bring pots, pans, the food, etc. and cook for the thing I invited you to. First dates...same concept. Guys 99% of the time tend to initiate the ask for the first date. NOW, screeeeeetch on the breaks: if you cut to it's 6 dates later and she hasn't offered to pay a single dime, YES, go nuts, complain on your blog, refuse to see her again, ask if she would foot the bill at some point in the near future unless of course she has warned you up front that she's some sort of relic from the 18th century.

2. Get over not being asked out by girls

7 Things Guys Need to Get Over

Yes, this blows chunks. I said it. You have to do all the work. You have to risk the rejection, etc, etc. but most girls just aren't doing the asking. I sincerely apologize, but some things in life are what they are. You're welcome to join various organizations which protest such things or pay prostitutes for dates or something I've heard some men do, but for the rest of you, if you want to go out with a girl, it's probably going to (READ: definitely) going to come down to you asking her out.

3. Get over the dress code thing

7 Things Guys Need to Get Over

There are some times in life where your ratty tank, jorts, and flip flops are just not appropriate. I am so sorry the world is so tough, but might I remind the, that just a century ago, the average person had to make from 4-6 changes of clothing A DAY. You only have to give AF at weddings, dinner dates, funerals, if you work in a business atmosphere, or the occasional gala or prom. I don't know that many people who have to go to formal functions 7 days a week. Put on a suit, knot the tie, shave the face, put on the uncomfortable shoes. It will all be over with soon.

4. Get over the idea that all girls are dressing up for you

7 Things Guys Need to Get Over

If I had a dollar for all the times some guy said, well girls just dress "that way" to get attention. Not knocking that some do or on the scene they do, but a lot of times, a girl dresses up for herself. I don't wake up and automatically think, what would my boyfriend or some randoms on the street approve of me wearing. I dress because it's what I like, makes me feel good, and low and behold if you have eyes in your head, you may notice me. Emphasis, on the "you" and "may" notice me. Girls are not responsible for your personal actions because you have eyes in your head.

5. Get over how much time it takes us to get ready (or shop)
7 Things Guys Need to Get Over

We've got a lot of hair on our heads and otherwise that needs attendance, we've got make-up, we have about a million different choices between clothes, jewelry, and shoes. It is easier for guys---life and society has severely limited your choices as to what a guy can wear and do with his face, and wear on his body. We have been instructed since birth to make Herculean efforts even when it comes to just going out and looking basic. You say when we're ready that we are beautiful, and lovely, and you like the end result. So we keep going through the efforts to get to that. We are sorry, not sorry, but at some point in life, hopefully sooner rather then later, we hope that you resign yourself that we will never ever ever (did I mention ever?) be ready in under 10 minutes flat. I wish that were a magic power we had, but for 90% of us, it's not. Make yourself a sandwich, catch up on the game, meditate...I don't know, just don't bother with the constant reminder that we're taking "too long," because it's only going to lead to an argument that's going to lead to wasted time we could have used getting ready. Truth.

6. Get over the hormone/period hating

7 Things Guys Need to Get Over

Have a period for 40 years of your life. Have the mind numbing cramps you don't get to decide when they happen even if you're at work, school, it's your birthday, your one and only day off, your exhausted from your day, a Thursday. Have your hormones bitch slap you in the face barely two months deep into your pregnancy causing you to upchuck things you didn't even know you ate. Deal with pads and tampons and having to take more hormones in a birth control pill to calm the hormones you do have, down. How the f--k does that work, I don't know!!! Now have some guy tell you, if he had a period, it wouldn't bother him at all. (Is it possible for women everywhere to roll their eyes so hard they leave the sockets?!?) We're not saying it's your fault you weren't born as a girl who had to deal with this, but YOU LITERALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE. ALL CAPS. So either say nothing, offer up whatever shred of comfort you can manage to give us, or just pretend like you get it. Any one of those will suffice.

7. Get over the fact that women want in

7 Things Guys Need to Get Over

Yep, some of us want to be in the military, be president, play the same sports, be on the board, make choices about our own bodies, be 'the first' in our field etc, etc, etc. We're going to continue to fight to have a place in this world, wherever that place may be. You telling us, "we shouldn't," or "we can't" is not going to stop us from trying. Those two phrases shouldn't stop anyone from fighting for what they want or the goals they set for themselves no matter your gender. No on in life got where they are now by sitting idly by. Many of you will or do have daughters, sisters, mothers, aunts, grandmas, and nieces out there in the world so when you dismiss 'some lady' as some crazy for fighting for rights, you're also dismissing all those ladies you know by name too. Stand with, not against us and demand that we do the same when it's you fighting for your own rights because it goes both ways!

7 Things Guys Need to Get Over
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