Monday, February 21, 2005

Who went to Hallmark to write their ad?

This ad was so filled with cliches that I just knew it deserved a post.

Women have more imagination than men. They need it to tell them how wonderful they are. Women have their faults. Men have only two. Everything they say. Everything they do. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful women is one who can find such a man.

The Style: Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed. Women somehow deteriorate during the night. When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking. A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman
will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item that she doesn’t want.

The Workplace: When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinions, she’s a bitch. Women are the only exploited group in history who have been idealized into powerlessness.

Relationships: Diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Dogs are a man’s best friend. Now you know which sex is smarter. Most men’s primary fantasy is still, unfortunately, access to a number of beautiful women. For a man, commitment means giving up this fantasy. Most women’s primary fantasy is a good relationship with one man who either provides economic security or is on his way to doing so (he has “potential”). For a woman, commitment to this type of man means achieving this fantasy. So commitment often means that a woman achieves her primary fantasy, while a man gives his up. It’s not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

Love: Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man’s last romance. The only way to understand a woman is to love her - and then it isn’t necessary to understand her. To women, love is an occupation. To men, a preoccupation. To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Marriage: A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn’t. A man marries a woman expecting that she won’t change and she does. Men marry because they are tired; woman because they are curious. Both are disappointed. A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife. A woman will always cherish the memory of the man who wanted to marry her; a man, of the woman who he didn’t. There are two times when a man doesn’t understand a woman - before marriage and after marriage.

Husbands: Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it. Married men live longer than single men, But married men are a lot more willing to die. Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use in two people remembering the same thing.

Wives: Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke. Husbands are like cars: all are good the first year.

The Battle: A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

On Men: If women knew what men were thinking, they’d never stop slapping them. Men are like animals, but they make great pets.

On Women: Can you imagine a world without men ? No crime and lots of happy fat women. Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears. Women may be the only group that grows more radical with age. God made man before woman to give him time to think of an answer for her first question.

I do not even know how to respond to an ad like this. Perhaps he is just trying to start a discussion group. I just can't imagine him wanting a date.

1 Comments:

Blogger Gloria said...

I feel like he took this out of a book, or one of those email forwards.

21 February, 2005 22:48  

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