Does This Girlfriend Come with a Gift Receipt?
Women love shopping as much as men love not shopping. You can tell because everything in the world of wares caters to a woman’s sensibilities. Walk into a department store and see for yourself. Do you see any signs anywhere? Do you see a giant neon sign that says: “Bathrooms Are Right the Fuck HERE!”? There’s also no alcohol and I guarantee you don’t know where the fucking door is. That’s because women hate that manner of shit.
The whole process of shopping is supposed to leave you drained, late, and (most importantly) feeling like you’ve accomplished something noble and epic when in fact all you did was go return some shitty presents that your girlfriend or wife (or both) gave you.
Women love shopping for the same reasons that men love women: it wastes their time. That’s why shopping malls are built like casinos. There’s no escape and no kind of landmarks. It’s like being trapped in a half-finished M.C. Escher painting where someone forgot to draw the ledge you want to jump off of. Surely with all that practice shopping and thinking about shopping women should be able to navigate the marketplace like a trained dog, but that assumption has fooled me and many a man many a time.
Women don’t know shit about shopping. They have no plan of attack and no philosophy. That’s why whenever you go into a store with one to buy a crappy present for her best friend’s wedding, you always end up in the purse section or the discount rack even though it was decided to get her a set of wine glasses well before hand. At least that’s what I hear happens.
Men do not shop. It’s true — even when we’re shopping that’s not what we’re doing. That’s why you shouldn’t judge a man on what he’s doing. He could be up to all kinds of other shit at the same time that you’re not aware of. That’s the man way.
Men are hunters and gatherers. We do not wander aimlessly about waiting for some trinket to catch our fancy. Absolutely no fucking way. We’re in, we’re out, and everyone goes home happy because they haven’t wasted half of the goddamn day playing princess and dress-up. I read an article about this recently that had some interesting things to say on the subject.
1. Men’s heart-rates increase at the moment of purchase — “The Modern Kill”.
2. Women have glitter and sawdust for brains.
I feel bad for women sometimes. And I’m talking about pity here, more than usual. They can’t even get good at the thing they love to do most: spending money. Then I remember that if women had it their way, I would be strung up by a noose and beaten like a piñata until the money that I’m made of started shooting all over the place like a sprinkler. Then I don’t feel so bad.
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I don’t honestly know. I’m a well-informed former amateur psychologist, my father being a practicing shrink and me being my ex’s de-facto therapist for many years. I’d have to ask my father how far apart the standards are.
The bottom line, however, is that the standards are different. Why should this be? Why are we normalizing behavior for women that if evidenced in men would be a personality disorder?
From my perspective, the reason such behavior is normalized in women is that it is normal. Women are just nutty compared to men.
The tragedy, in my opinion, is that while psychology knows of the difference, it is silent on it. What it should be doing is (using my ex as an example), taking the knowledge that she actually suffers from OCD and using that therepeutically. It doesn’t help someone deal with reality if you say to them, “Well, if you were a man, you’d have OCD, but since you’re a woman, behaving obsessively is ok.”
You see the issue? You get a woman who behaves irrationally, and rather than help her overcome it, you tell it’s ok because she’s female. How is this helping anyone, particularly the person behaving irrationally?
Actually, according to my father who’s a clinical psychologist with his own 40-year-old practice, her behavior is a bit extreme but not that far outside the norm for women. He sees this kind of thing all the time in marriage counseling.
Well … that’s nice, and all, but I don’t see any women demanding legal reform that gives them less power and advantage over men. Rather the reverse, in all areas of law.
This obviously isn’t the case, or we’d see women clamoring for justice and fairness with the same fervor as they clamor for increased injustice and further unfairness.
Every woman who’s ever been divorced (a majority of adult women, now) know that they have the men by the balls during the divorce. They know that short of video footage of them physically abusing the children, they will be awarded custody, and on this all other divorce negotiations are based. Women routinely force men to trade assets for access to their children. Women routinely make visitation agreements that they have every intention of avoiding by simply moving a great distance from the father.
All of this is allowed and encouraged by law, and the majority of adult women know it. They’re not clamoring for the situation to be rectified, because to do so would put them on an equal footing with men.
Women as a group don’t want to be on equal footing. They want to be superior. They believe they deserve to be superior and that men should be made to suffer for what women subjectively perceive as suffering they’ve endured at the hands of men.
Bottom line: your statements are noble but naive. If women were really interested in justice and fairness in the legal system, then it would be there. Since we only have increasing injustice and unfairness, led largely by women, we can only conclude that injustice and unfairness is what women want.
And can you blame them?
I’ve been very frustrated and it’s never culminated in violence. Admittedly I’ve never been through a divorce, but I’m fairly sure very little, if anything, could result in me assaulting anyone.
Regarding the standards for pyschological disorders, I don’t know much about it, but is the gap in standards large? I would imagine not, I’ve seen you describe your ex wife’s behavior elsewhere on the site and it is nowhere normal for an average, healthy woman.
“Except that women can vote. Because of this, the process of change is blocked. It is impossible to suggest publicly that the law is staggeringly stacked against men and in favor of women, because elected officials need women’s votes to get elected. Women won’t vote for you if you suggest that their preferential treatment should be ended.
Ultimately, to fix the problem, women’s suffrage must be ended.”
I think the nature of this is different than many assume. I mentioned this in Wolfe’s blog: We watched a video in one of my courses on freedom of speech, and ridiculous sexual harrassment laws were discussed, and the women found them as ridiculous as men did. Most women understand justice and fairness, and would never want their father, son, husband, etc. to be at such a disadvantage. The problem is that such issues get almost no media attention, so women don’t realize there’s even a problem, or they don’t know the extent of it. Women are affected by policy in every area and have as much of a right participate in it as men.
Possibly, but you’d be unable to prove it, short of providing me with scores for some standardized psychological tests.
Here’s an interesting tidbit about those scores, by the way: there are different standards for men and women. Women’s scores are looser. For example, where a male score on the MMPI would qualify for use as a diagnosis of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, the exact same score from a woman is considered within the norms.
Think about that for a moment: even in professional psychology, a score that would be considered evidence of a personality disorder in a man is considered normal for a woman.
I’m not kidding: I happen to know that one from personal experience regarding mine and my ex-wife’s MMPI scores. She scored high enough for OCD that had she been male, she’d've been so diagnosed.
No one. And therein lies the problem.
In point of fact, this isn’t true. As a woman, you are free to do almost anything you like, and government agencies will ultimately support you if there isn’t a responsible male to step in.
Short of violent crime, I defy you to find any activity in which a woman will engage that has the same consequences as a man who performs that same activity.
Except that women can vote. Because of this, the process of change is blocked. It is impossible to suggest publicly that the law is staggeringly stacked against men and in favor of women, because elected officials need women’s votes to get elected. Women won’t vote for you if you suggest that their preferential treatment should be ended.
Ultimately, to fix the problem, women’s suffrage must be ended.
Had I not been assaulted by my ex, I would take this statement more seriously. However, I am now aware that when a woman says such a thing, she is probably unaware of her own nature.
You’re 19, right? I suggest that you’re too young to know what you’d do if you felt sufficiently frustrated. Perhaps you wouldn’t assault a man, but the statistics are against you. Women assaulting men — particularly during divorce — is so common that the law ignores assault as long as it’s performed by women. Again, I know this from experience.
Bottom line: whether you personally believe it or not, women as a group do not expect to have consequences applied to their actions and therefore have no accountability.
Another question for the men here.
Do you think women grow wiser with age? Or should we say.. More rational?
Dakota, that is ridiculous. Many women, myself included, are plenty rational. As for accountable: if women aren’t accountable for themselves, who is accountable for them? In most situations, a woman’s actions will have consequences that she will have to deal with herself. Not every woman has a boyfriend/husband or father willing (or even there) to pick up the peices for her. If you mean in terms of the law, I’d agree women are held less accountable and that that needs to change. But I, for one, expect that my actions will have consequences and behave accordingly. I wouldn’t assault a man whether the law would be lenient with me or not.
Any solution to a problem that involves women assuming responsibility for their own actions will never occur.
Remember the immortal words of Jack Nicholson, when his character in As Good As It Gets was asked how he writes women so well:
“I think of a man, and then I take away reason and accountability.”
Women are naturally irrational and unaccountable. They will never willingly become rational or accountable.
So think again: what is it that enables women to assume the role of victim in society? Government agencies. The real solution, therefore, is to eliminate the government agencies and structures which empower women.
Admittedly, this would be extremely difficult to accomplish; but it’s at least possible. Women taking responsibility for themselves is not.
Excactly. Violence needs to come to a stop, and we need more focus on the whole subject. Women are in fact more violent than men.
http://www.fathers.ca/women_are_more_violent.htm
This is a fact from a scientific study. While men tend to do more damage than women, it’s not much. And in many cases, the women are the agressors.
The only solution to this problem, is for women to get out of their victim-roles in society.
I wouldn’t hit a woman. Too weak in most cases.
@ Dalsgaard- Right. Violence is unacceptable from either gender, and women should remember they aren’t exempt from this.
“I think it’s something to brag about”
Where, in jail?
Good.
I’ve been hit by women a lot of times. I rarely hit back though. I’m usually afraid that if I blow a punch with all my force, i would crush their skull.
You know what? It would be a lot easier if women were afraid of the same thing. They have a tendency to forget that the person they are pissing off, are 3 times as strong as themselves - and able to spill their brainmatters all over the floor in a couple of blows.
And the only reason we don’t do this, is because we don’t want to. Because we’re told that: “You can’t hit a woman”. Maybe, if we were NOT told, they would think twice before they try to hurt us.
I think it’s something to brag about.
In my experience, I find only two scenarios where a strike is fitting, regardless of the gender.
Self-defense, where you need to hit the person to save yourself.
In jest, where the strike is too gentle to even cause pain.
Hitting anyone in anger just isn’t my style. I accept if this causes me to lose any man-points.
Hey, I’ve been thinking about something.
Do you guys think it’s alright to hit a woman?
Lol
yes she proved the point that between her ears is an empty space lacking intelligence.
You certainly proved a point with your lack of capitalization, punctuation, and inability to correctly spell “piece of.”
You didn’t prove YOUR point, of course, but a point was proven I’m sure.
Yes. And in other news, I like swords.
You certainly proved a point with your lack of capitalization, punctuation, and inability to correctly spell “piece of.”
You didn’t prove YOUR point, of course, but a point was proven I’m sure.
No but we do all want to learn to read and write properly.
Who cares about english? we all dont want to be teachers.