Maybe it's not AS...

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Or maybe there's something in the "extreme male-brained" theory...

But a lot of these make sense to me... Not all of them, but more than some of the other "rules" I've had to try and derive from people's behaviour, anyway.
(taken from elsewhere, not my own work)

The Guys' Rules
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At last a guy has taken the time to write this all down

We always hear "the rules"
From the female side.

Now here are the rules from the male side.

These are our rules!

Please note... these are all numbered "1"
ON PURPOSE!

1. Men are NOT mind readers.

1. Learn to work the toilet seat.
You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down.
We need it up, you need it down.
You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.

1. Sunday sports. It's like the full moon
or the changing of the tides.
Let it be.

1. Shopping is NOT a sport.
And no, we are never going to think of it that way.

1. Crying is blackmail.

1. Ask for what you want.
Let us be clear on this one:
Subtle hints do not work!
Strong hints do not work!
Obvious hints do not work!
Just say it!

1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.

1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do.
Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.

1. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a Problem.
See a doctor.

1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument.
In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 Days.

1. If you won't dress like the Victoria's Secret girls, don't Expect us to act like soap opera guys.

1. If you think you're fat, you probably are.
Don't ask us.

1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of them makes you sad or angry, then we meant the other one

1. You can either ask us to do something
Or tell us how you want it done.
Not both.
If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.

1. Whenever possible, Please say whatever you have to say during commercials.

1. Christopher Columbus did NOT need directions and neither do we.

1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings.
Peach, for example, is a fruit, not A color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.

1. If it itches, it will be scratched.
We do that.

1. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," We will act like nothing's wrong.
We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle, besides we know you will bring it up again later.

1. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, Expect an answer you don't want to hear.

1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine...Really.

1. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as baseball, the shotgun formation,
or golf.

1. You have enough clothes.

1. You have too many shoes.

1. I am in shape. Round IS a shape!

1. Thank you for reading this.

Those are great rules.

I do think it is AS, cause I'm a girl, and I understand those rules, they make logic to me. I would like to impose them to my female friends.

Either that or I'm a guy. (In a woman!)

But if crying is blackmail, so is cussing, raging, and overpowering your opponent.

Pat, 5'2" and unathletic and slow off the mark.

Fair comment. I dont think the rules are exclusive, or even necessarily right.

But they do reveal *something* of the male mind, even when they're exaggerating.

It took me years to learn that
"1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do."
Wasn't the only perspective in the world.
I now note that sympathising without offering practical help does appear to be a workable methodology. The why and how of that eludes me, but I note it.

"if you think your fat,you probably are, so dont ask"hilarious...lol...but unfortunatly not true for many women...its called anorexia

crying is not blackmale....wow...is this one illogical....crying is the physical reaction to toxic build-up...self cleansing...and sometimes the only "exceptable" way many females have learned to express their rage and frustration....yes, we should probably throw things, hit the thing that is annoying us or intimidate the person into stopping their anoying behavior...but many of us have had the "trained" out of us....so....

just because a behavior has a result on someone else (like guilt),that makes them feel(blackmail) like they should change their behavior because they want to end the other persons behavior, does not mean that that is the intent of the original behavior(crying)

I hate sports and so never dated guys who like sports...there are quite a few guys who hate sports and resent being expected to like them or be called "fag" by other guys(or left out of conversations because its the only "safe" thing many guys know how to talk about...

I agree with the toilet seat thing and dont like the implication that women are to "weak" to lift a toilet seat...but...sometimes when I'm half asleep and dont wont to turn on the bathroom light because it will wake me up to much and I forget to check if the seat is down and sit on the cold "peey toilet rim or do check and now have yucky pee on my hand from the toilet bowl ...its really sucks...but I live with it...

over all...many made me laugh and some where just stereptypes that I cant relate to...worth reading ,though...love to laugh

I seem to get misinterpreted like this a lot. I say one thing and someone ALWAYS interprets it in some way that causes them grief, even if that interpretation of what I said would never have occurred to me, and even if it was out of context and character. This isn't just a man-woman thing either.



I have a problem with this too. Even if I know something is amiss and a person doesn't talk about it, there's the added problem that some people like a bit of space and some people want you to keep probing. You know they wanted you to keep probing if they get angry at you later for apparently not caring.



This is not so much a problem for me. If I know an answer to someone's question is going to be something they really don't want to hear then I go into deflective mode. People seem to be able to accept answers that don't answer their question at all, as long as you make it seem you answered their question.



Yeah, there's nothing more annoying than having to do something minor like taking the dog for a walk and having to wait for hours for them to dress up. And you can tell them and tell them they look fine, and they STILL insist on finding their best outfit for the occasion. (No offence to the many women who aren't like this).



Honestly, who spends any time at all in normal interaction looking at people's shoes?

I've read those before. Or at least a variant of it. Some of you have to realize, that was meant purely as humor. Not sure how much basis it has in reality.

That's very much part of the humour: the uncertainty how much truth is hidden in the exaggeration and caricature. There's definitely some, or there would be no identification to work with.

Me, I can stop and ask for directions, no problem, but
"1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine...Really."
Is right on the money.

How do you know that girls and women can't relate to this?

I can relate to most of it, and I'm a girl!

I wonder where that came from out of me!

I guess that's just me and my unusual ways of thinking.

This is hilarious.

This is hilarious!

Although I disagree with ther toilet seat on.. toilet seats are supposed to be down!

Me too. It's a guy thing plus an aspie-girl thing, I guess.

I relate to all of this.