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Respect for Men

Josie

Josie

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One of (if not the most important) thing you can do for your man is to respect him. If you're getting your ideas of how to treat a man from TV sitcoms (think Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, etc.), then you're doing it wrong. Men don't deserve to be called idiots or treated like children. Respect their opinions, their wants and needs and what makes them different than you.

That's it. Discuss amongst yourselves.
 
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Josie said:
One of (if not the most important) thing you can do for your man is to respect him. If you're getting your ideas of how to treat a man from TV sitcoms (think Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, etc.), then you're doing it wrong. Men don't deserve to be called idiots or treated like children. Respect their opinions, their wants and needs and what makes them different than you.

That's it. Discuss amongst yourselves.
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Fact, and it's a two way street. There are so many things in life where there is more than one way to do something and not only one way is right.
 
Josie said:
One of (if not the most important) thing you can do for your man is to respect him. If you're getting your ideas of how to treat a man from TV sitcoms (think Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, etc.), then you're doing it wrong. Men don't deserve to be called idiots or treated like children. Respect their opinions, their wants and needs and what makes them different than you.

That's it. Discuss amongst yourselves.
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God I hate that obnoxious, tired (and still ubiquitous) sitcom/commercial trope of the dumb/oblivious manchild husband opposite the savvy, wise and casually condescending wife; if those roles were reversed, there'd be an uproar.

Classic double standard of popular gender representation.
 
TheGoverness said:
Sargon of Akkad! Yayy!
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Hmm, gee. I decided not to post it because I didn't want to distract from Josie's point after all. Guess I was toooo slow. ;)

Still, since you quoted it I may as well say that despite all claims of male privilege as a reason not to give men any respect; it is clear women have a number of privileges based on both male and societal respect.

So instead of crying a river and tolerating "ladysplaining" as to why men are worthless...perhaps a little more mutual respect is in order?
 
spud_meister said:
I'm content with regular blowjobs. :shrug:
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BrewerBob said:
Yeah, we're not that complicated. :)
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I'm going to guess that you wouldn't be content with a woman who constantly belittles you, thinks everything you do is stupid, tells her friends how idiotic you are, treats you like a child instead of an adult and thinks every decision you make is horrible..... just for regular blowjobs.
 
Josie said:
I'm going to guess that you wouldn't be content with a woman who constantly belittles you, thinks everything you do is stupid, tells her friends how idiotic you are, treats you like a child instead of an adult and thinks every decision you make is horrible..... just for regular blowjobs.
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This is a very hard decision ... ;)
 
Josie said:
I'm going to guess that you wouldn't be content with a woman who constantly belittles you, thinks everything you do is stupid, tells her friends how idiotic you are, treats you like a child instead of an adult and thinks every decision you make is horrible..... just for regular blowjobs.
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Depends on how good they are.

;)

I am of course joking and completely agree with your OP.
 
Josie said:
One of (if not the most important) thing you can do for your man is to respect him. If you're getting your ideas of how to treat a man from TV sitcoms (think Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, etc.), then you're doing it wrong. Men don't deserve to be called idiots or treated like children. Respect their opinions, their wants and needs and what makes them different than you.

That's it. Discuss amongst yourselves.
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Men need and react to respect like women need and react to love. For some reason we disdain the notion of respect today, which is incredibly destructive.


It took me and my wife a couple of years (and the Love and Respect course) to really get this. I was being respectful, but not loving, and she was being loving, but not respectful, and both of us were bitter.
 
Just to be clear, are you claiming that women shouldn't be treated with respect in this way ?
 
Who has time to deal with that kind of attitude anyway?

There's more important things to do with our time than put up with that.
 
Josie said:
One of (if not the most important) thing you can do for your man is to respect him. If you're getting your ideas of how to treat a man from TV sitcoms (think Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, etc.), then you're doing it wrong. Men don't deserve to be called idiots or treated like children. Respect their opinions, their wants and needs and what makes them different than you.

That's it. Discuss amongst yourselves.
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Here's a question for the men if you are living with a partner. look around you house and figure out how much of each room has something of you in it? I don't mean how much of it you did, I mean how much of it has your taste, soul or input?
 
William Rea said:
Here's a question for the men if you are living with a partner. look around you house and figure out how much of each room has something of you in it? I don't mean how much of it you did, I mean how much of it has your taste, soul or input?
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This house would be nearly empty if I never lived with a woman. Hell, the walls wouldn't even be decorated nor would anything have been done outside. All those flower beds in the front and back wouldn't exist, 80% of the furniture and other things sitting around wouldn't exist, none of the walls would have been painted, sponged and whatever else she did to them. I wouldn't have even built a shed as I would have just shoved everything where it would fit and not think about it after.
 
Henrin said:
This house would be nearly empty if I never lived with a woman. Hell, the walls wouldn't even be decorated nor would anything have been done outside. All those flower beds in the front and back wouldn't exist, 80% of the furniture and other things sitting around wouldn't exist, none of the walls would have been painted, sponged and whatever else she did to them. I wouldn't have even built a shed as I would have just shoved everything where it would fit and not think about it after.
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Reminds me of a line from 30 rock :

"Jenna : I don't know what to tell you. The only reason men start taking care of themselves is if they're getting someone to have sex with them. If it wasn't for that, they'd just sit at home in their own filth."
 
Josie said:
One of (if not the most important) thing you can do for your man is to respect him. If you're getting your ideas of how to treat a man from TV sitcoms (think Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, etc.), then you're doing it wrong. Men don't deserve to be called idiots or treated like children. Respect their opinions, their wants and needs and what makes them different than you.

That's it. Discuss amongst yourselves.
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It always makes me glad to see a woman say something like that. We may shrug off a lot of the anti-male garbage we see, but that doesn't mean we like it.
 
Josie said:
I'm going to guess that you wouldn't be content with a woman who constantly belittles you, thinks everything you do is stupid, tells her friends how idiotic you are, treats you like a child instead of an adult and thinks every decision you make is horrible..... just for regular blowjobs.
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The thing is to find women who like giving them just as much as you like receiving them. Then she isn't doing you a favor that you feel you have to kowtow to get.
 
Surrealistik said:
God I hate that obnoxious, tired (and still ubiquitous) sitcom/commercial trope of the dumb/oblivious manchild husband opposite the savvy, wise and casually condescending wife; if those roles were reversed, there'd be an uproar.

Classic double standard of popular gender representation.
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Me too.

There are quite a lot of shows that have that as a theme where the male head of household is a complete moron. From my memory there is;

All in the Family
Family Guy
American Dad
King of Queens
Everybody Loves Raymond (previously mentioned)
Malcolm in the Middle
Home Improvement

only recently did the man of the house be given back a brain...

Last Man Standing
The Middle
 
Josie said:
I'm going to guess that you wouldn't be content with a woman who constantly belittles you, thinks everything you do is stupid, tells her friends how idiotic you are, treats you like a child instead of an adult and thinks every decision you make is horrible..... just for regular blowjobs.
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No, I could not deal with that treatment at all. No matter how good the sex.

My pride and dignity are important to me.

When I dabbled into the BDSM world, I noticed men and women who let their own dignity go just to have someone give them their attention.
Those that did this have tremendous self-esteem issues.

One grandmother aged woman let a guy (her "Master") put a dog collar around her neck and had her eat out of a dog dish on the floor without using her hands.
I took a picture of it because I know no one would believe me otherwise.

It was completely disgusting to me.

One Dom lady had a guy jerk it into an empty plastic milk bottle in the middle of the living room in front of everybody.

The rule was never criticize another's kink, but even this fleet sailor has his limits.

It is completely amazing what some will do without self-esteem.
 
William Rea said:
Here's a question for the men if you are living with a partner. look around you house and figure out how much of each room has something of you in it? I don't mean how much of it you did, I mean how much of it has your taste, soul or input?
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I read this as I was sitting in my man cave.

When I bought this house we had an agreement...

I have 100% control of what goes in my man cave, gets hung on the walls, and gets put in the shelves.

She has 100% control of everything else in the house. Both bathrooms, all the bedrooms, and the meditation room and office are all hers to do with as she likes.

This arrangement has worked just fine in the two years we have been together.

Although she politely asked me to NOT put my boar's head ANYWHERE in the house. I acquiesced and sold it. I did not kill it anyway, so it was not truly mine.
 
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