Why Can't A Man Be More Like A Woman?

I just took the words right out of Henry Higgins' mouth and inverted them. Why can't a man be more like a woman?

Okay, I don't really mean it that way. If we didn't have men women wouldn't have crushes, or boyfriends, or fiances, or husbands, they wouldn't have someone to kiss and they wouldn't have someone to nag or hug or a shoulder to cry on.

So I'm not saying we should exterminate all men, or sex change them all, for that matter. I just mean that men need to learn more from women, and not go 'I'm a man and so bloody charged up with testosterone that I can do any bloody thing and I want and it will be so bloody right that I will be hailed as a bloody saviour'

Things just don't work that way.

Men aren't sympathetic for women. Women are sensitive, in one way or another, and are delicate - either physically, mentally or emotionally, or all three. Women go through tough times - unrequited love, crushes, bad boyfriends, getting dumped, PMS, childbirth - you name it women have to go through it - wherelse men just seem to wake up, get dressed in a suit that looks exactly the same to all other five suits they have, put on a tie that looks exactly the same to all other five hundred they have, go to work, come home, grumbling about dodgy buses or lousy collegues, get changed, and go out with mates! Then come home drunk, rant about how lousy the beer or the music at the pub down the road was, then fall asleep, keeping their poor wife, who has probably been slaving all day, awake by snoring as loud as they can! If you can call that snoring - men don't snore, they impersonate chainsaws.

If a woman says she has a stomach ache, it's not from food poisoning. If she says she doesn't want to swim, it's not because the water is too cold. If she's grumpy, it's not because she hasn't had enough sleep. If she screams at you, it's not your fault (actually, it is, but anyway...). If she stains the sheets, it's not because she wet the bed.

Women have it tough. The pressure to be sexy is ever present and crippling. Men have to be understanding, kind, sympathetic.

Everything they're not.