Ahem: "In the study of more than 1,000 unmarried young adults between the ages of 18 and 23, Wake Forest Professor of Sociology Robin Simon challenges the long-held assumption that women are more vulnerable to the emotional rollercoaster of relationships. Even though men sometimes try to present a tough face, unhappy romances take a greater emotional toll on men than women, Simon says. They just express their distress differently than women." Why yes, it does get annoying, being right all the time. Thank you for asking.
I'm just going to go ahead and mix some drinks before this gets started.
Should cue up some tunes too. I nominate "Behind Blue Eyes" to start with.
I nominate Old Blue Eyes singing "One For My Baby" for placement on a list of "songs about men who are sad and mostly-not dealing with it."
I nominate Funkadelic's "We Hurt Too" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwGhCjOYeUg
The entire 'In The Wee Small Hours' album is all you need.
Yeah, but "Simon say."
"s."
I hope you are hard at work on a MUST CREDIT THEAWL.COM letter right this instant.
I note that it's the first time that first tag has ever been used.
It's constantly implied.
My mistake, good sir.
...including me.
Finally someone who knows the difference between implied and inferred.
I learned the difference from Detective Munch.
Of course, we also react to the emotional roller coaster of a bromance differently. We say it with "ice."
Richard Pryor illustrated this point, possibly before you were born, with a very funny routine about dudes running around hiding inside their stoic little attitudes. But hey, Robin Simon isn't going to give either of you credit so it just doesn't matter...
And did you know that men, if you take into consideration how much harder it is for them to do so, put as much if not more effort into household chores.
THIS.
Ha!
aaaHAhaha!...hahaha,haha...ha. :/ (-slinks away quietly-)
But what about the gays? Do we both take it badly? Is there a chart of some sort that I can look at?
I usually eat a carton of sorbet, open a bottle stoli, throw on some MST3K and I'm fine by the morning.
Then again, even my mother calls me emotionally distant and a little intimidating.
uh oh, that sounds like a normal night for me
um, *call me
Wait, was I the young adult expert? That is so exciting, particularly as I remember the conversation, but usually in such circumstances contribute nothing more than, "If you can't get over someone, get under someone."
In that line, I'm going to add another point to my alleged Ur-daddy thing, which is that women also recover more quickly because we're both spiteful and easily distracted. Yes, we start dating another man immediately, but that's just to prove you wrong. However, we then forget that and just totally have a new boyfriend.
Yeah, it was pretty much verbatim. But you were kind of drunk.
I'm starting to suspect women live in a constant state of fear and betrayal merely to subconsciously COMPENSATE for our outrageous behavior. BALK YOU ARE RIGHT. PRINT IT OUT CUZ I SAID IT.
Also, I have been ceaselessly thinking about this -- of course -- but the ONE THING YOUR THEORY DOES NOT EXPLAIN IS JONI MITCHELL.
Come back from that.
Where's your grant money?
Oh yes. When Sinatra sang "Drinking Again," he really made you feel it. When Dinah Washington sang it, it was a bouncy little number and you had the feeling she was out the door in a sharp coat and pair of heels, off for more action.
My favorite comparison in this vein comes from clarinetist Tony Scott on Fitzgerald vs. Holiday: "'With a singer like Ella, when she sings 'My man has left me,' you think the guy is going down the street for a loaf of bread. But when Lady sings it, man, you see the bags are packed, the cat is going down the street and you know he ain't never coming back."
Nice, Alex, never read that.
Still waiting for the follow-up article on how mother-daughter relationships ruin adulthood for women. I can taste it, but I couldn't tell you what the ingredients are.
And childhood.
paperbackwriter, there is not enough battery life on my computer, even in the best of times
I am printing that out and taping it to every ex-boyfriends car window. Which is probably why men have a harder time. Because women don't forget.
I thought there was some kind of thing you had to blow into after 6:00 pm (EST) to be allowed to post?
It's called Emily Gould's penis.
No, no, that's what Young Manhattanite orgasms with before bedtime.
Blah blah blah Balk is right. Do I understand correctly that this is just a bachelor version of every relevant married study in Science?
So, you leave the seat up because you want to fall in, or because you want her to?
This study explains why I still smell my HS gf's scrunchy.
I am 35.
I was going to do a "smell the glove" joke, but your pain, res, it is palpable. I will refrain.
Thank you for your show of restraint.
Whoa.
My fear and avoidance of relationships shall continue unabated. Questions and concerns can be directed to my minister of defense, alcohol.
Another bullshit study from yet another bullshit artist. Men hurt more after a breakup? Are you fucking kidding me??
Blue balls.
FYI: Women get horny too.
Not like that, they don't.
How would you know?
Do you have a machine that guages relative levels of sexual arousal??
I do. I call it my meat thermometer and I would love to demonstrate it for you when you come visit me in Chicago.