{"id":580,"date":"2009-08-24T21:02:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T04:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=580"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:31:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:31:25","slug":"classic-male-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Classic Male Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m reading an enjoyable book and the shoe-obsessed modern heroine is nagging her tall, dark, sexy 18th century vampire consort about wedding plans.\u00a0 He’s reading the Finance section of the newspaper.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Betsy:\u00a0 You grew up on a farm, surely you have SOME flower preferences.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sinclair (without looking up):\u00a0 Darling, I have a penis.\u00a0 Ergo, I have no preferences.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Doesn’t that sound like\u00a0the CLASSIC guy!\u00a0\u00a0 I find that MOST men (and you know there are always exceptions… so don’t get all huffy on me) most men don’t really have preferences on the things we want their opinion on.\u00a0 And I think this is because their only REAL preference is to let us decide.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, I’m not saying men don’t have preferences.\u00a0 Some men have clear preferences in certain areas… sports, alcohol, female body parts.\u00a0 What I’m saying is what we want their opinion on they feel the safest course is a “no comment” so they can let us decide.\u00a0 They foolishly believe this will keep\/make us happy.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

WRONG.\u00a0\u00a0 Even if we really don’t care what their preference is we are asking for a reason.\u00a0 We are asking because we want to interact with you.\u00a0 We are asking because we want to feel like we’re in a partnership.\u00a0 We are asking because we would like the comfort of feeling we’re making the right decision and we need your feedback in the form of a discussion.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Because let’s face it.\u00a0 If we really didn’t want your opinion we sure as hell wouldn’t bother asking you for it.\u00a0\u00a0 Which of course is usually when you give it.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’m reading an enjoyable book and the shoe-obsessed modern heroine is nagging her tall, dark, sexy 18th century vampire consort about wedding plans.\u00a0 He’s reading the Finance section of the newspaper. Betsy:\u00a0 You grew up on a farm, surely … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3408,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/3408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}