Friday, October 17, 2008

Playing Dress Up

I clicked on the "Lifestyle" section of Yahoo! a couple of minutes ago. I like to check in there from time to time to see what the ladies are thinking.

Like most newspapers and websites, Yahoo! doesn't mean Lifestyle when they say Lifestyle. They mean, "women." Men, according to the Life section of most papers, don't exist, at least not until their women want to dress them, feed them, hump them, or dump them.

Here's a bit I found under the headline Dressing Him Up. It's an article about making your slob boyfriend a little more presentable.

Here's what you do: take him shopping. Find an occasion - his birthday, Valentine's Day, heck, make something up: 'Guess what honey, it's official Take Your Boyfriend Shopping day!' Then guide him, gently and enthusiastically, through the men's department, pointing out things you think would look really hot on him.

It's fairly obvious that women must think men are pretty stupid, but I dig the whole made-up-occasion thing. I wonder what a girlfriend would say if a guy responded with, "There's a holiday called Take Your Boyfriend Shopping? Awesome. My mistress has been saying for weeks that I need a new outfit for Bang Your Secretary Fridays."

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