Wanted: Housebroken Female
July 24, 2008 by Greg
I’m really just going to throw this out there to see if I’m not alone. I have noticed through a string of girlfriends and female associates that many women seem to be challenged in the area of basic domestication. I’m not expecting women to be homemakers, spending their lives barefoot in the kitchen. I’m expecting them to take care of themselves without requiring me to play the traditional female role of cook and maid.
I just want them to be able to take care of themselves. I don’t want to remind them to make the bed, clean their foundation out of the sink, pick their hair out of the drain, put their dirty clothes in the hamper, remove trash from their car, or the countless other examples I shouldn’t be worrying about.
As for cooking, it doesn’t have to be extravagant. Generally after 20 or more years on the planet, one should be able to feed themselves a rounded meal on a regular basis without too much effort. Really I want them to just eat vegetables without me nagging.
It could be that I’ve taken my metrosexuality to a new plane, but seriously, I’m not doing that much. Ladies, please at least try to keep up. I’m tired of baby sitting.
I know someone with a Kitchen Aide Mixer… It’s real nice.
Must be meeting the wrong ladies….
just stay away from the ones lookin for surrogate father figures. or greg just needs to stop dating girls he meets during recess.
goat - heh. point.
I dated one gal who was at the time 34, and couldnt be bothered to pick up her own house, train her hyperactive dog, or finish a damn thing she started (job, school, project, etc). she blamed her laziness on ADD and had a tantrum any time it was suggested she tug her big girl pants on and do something proper. ADD, I’m sure in extreme cases could well be problematic, but I’m fairly certain that her cute lil prescriptions should have tended to that detail.
It didn’t last long. I got tired of being the daddy she never had.
I’ve since then made the always sloppy house one of my red flag triggers. No need to be a neat freak or anything, but damn - If a potential girlfriend, or even a friend for that matter, can’t pick up after their own grown self once in a while, It’s a real turn off.
In short, I’m right there with ya, Greg.
As we get older, I think we become less tolerant of flaws in others. That doesn’t mean that we should overlook obvious symptoms that could point to larger root issues that could be deal breakers in a relationship. To paraphrase Good Will Hunting, ‘It doesnt’ matter if they’re perfect, because they’re not. What matters is if they’re perfect for you.’ People really do need to get the whole misunderstanding of “equality” out of their heads. Guess what? People are NOT equal. Neither physically nor emotionally. What equality really means in our country is the equality of opportunity and equal treatment under the law. IMHO, this has caused a huge problem with relationships because of unrealistic expectations and the unwillingness to sacrifice or compromise. If you’re looking for equality in a relationship, you’ll never get it because you’re focused on what YOU want instead of what the other person wants. I’ll try not to turn this into a sermon since I’ve already been on the soapbox recently, but “putting up” with imperfections is one thing. Learning to appreciate them for their uniqueness in the individual is quite another. Good luck!
Ben, I for one will never learn to appreciate a house with little trails of clean floor running between the kitchen, the bathroom and the computer desk amongst piles of clutter and trash.
Equality is certainly a delusion, but the current societal trend to tolerate EVERYTHING is a sow motion disaster. We tolerate failure in school, we tolerate failure in our friends, we tolerate failure in our leaders, we tolerate failure in our products. No one is being held accountable for anything and the country is falling apart.
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I’m going to have to agree with you on this one… there seems to be a lot of girls out there that can’t seem to even feed themselves properly. What’s up with that? How did you survive before I was around??? And the cleaning… I’ve been baffled by that one. I always thought women were supposed to be clean ones.