October 8, 2008 Feel free to kick yourself in the balls
My boss knows a pretty high end jewellery maker quite well. He comes in today after meeting with him last night, hands me the swanky new folder of his latest stuff and says “Here, show [boyfriend] – see if you can put in an order”. I say “Yeah, I’m not really into the whole ‘Hey, buy me shit’ thing”. He says “Yeah, you all *say* that”. At this point I think I’d really like to kick him in the balls.
How much do you wanna pull a “Girls don’t like boys, girls like cars and money” line on me?
Mostly I ignore it when I have to ask for his credit card to pay for work stuff and he pulls out the whole ‘It’s like being married’ line. I grit my teetch and use the card. Guess what? Not like being married at all. My experience of being married was that my arsehole husband drank and smoked my money and his. My relationships have *never* involved someone financially supporting me, and sometimes I’m so stupidly determined to pay 50% that I end up paying more than that which is extremely stupid given my shitty income.
So when I say “I’m not into telling guys to buy me shit”, I mean I’m not into telling guys to buy me shit. And when I say that in a workplace? Feel free not to throw around your jaded generalisations from the one experience like that that you’ve had in order to make derogatory sexist remarks. Or you know, feel free to kick yourself in the balls and save me the effort.
Tags: generalisations, jokes about marriage, jokes about relationships, jokes about women, jokes about women as golddiggers, men, no actually I meant what I said
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Bene Gesserit Witch
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Oh, what the shit. That is fail and he shouldn’t be allowed to say such things. I too am not much of the ‘buy me things’ category.
Except fangirl stuff, which is not jewelry.
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fuckpoliteness
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Oh yeah, I know he shouldn’t.
Yeah, look I have no problems with presents, and I bestow them liberally – but that’s not what he was referring to. It’s the idea that I’m lying, that you know, six months, two years in, I’ll be demanding jewellery as…payment? For what? Oh yeah, for putting out, cos chicks hate sex, and do it only to gain wealth. Nice. All I can say is I have a LOT of sex, and very little money, so either I am a woman of my word, or I’m doing this whole thing wrong. ;p
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apublicblogging
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I hate when guys pull the “It sucks for men to be married” shit.
Statistically, it increases their life span and improves their mental and physical health.
They love to over-look all that in favour of making it seem like such a chore, something they only do because teh wimminz want it, so then they can hold it over our heads and make jokes about how they da slaves to all our greedy bitch economic demands.
Remind your boss that women who are NOT married actually live longer and have better health than all those greedy demanding bitches that they HAD to marry just to keep them happy.
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fuckpoliteness
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That reminds me of an article I saw recently about ten ways to see if a guy really loves you. One was that he held you hand in public, AND they said he did this because it showed everyone he was a/ clean, and b/ getting laid regularly…so NOT really about loving you after all…sorry the link was the improvement in mental health with “Look y’all, I gots me a WIFE!”. Some days I despair over gender relations. Some time off might help with that!