atw: Ahh, the Friday Afternoon blues

Whoa, Michael - having a bad day are we?

You should know enough about logic to know that saying 'it's a guy thing' in no 
way is saying that its an "every guy" thing!  

And let's face it, we all get discriminated against by someone for something.  
We are either too young or too old, too male or too female, too skinny or too 
fat, too quiet or too loud etc etc etc.  Unless we are a 6ft tall, good 
looking, 30 something man, odds are, someone is discriminating against us 
somewhere, and if we are a 6ft tall, good looking, 30 something man, another 
6ft tall, good looking, 30 something man will be trying to destroy us.  We 
learn to live with it.  

I am in Queensland.  I don't know if you have the same TV ads as us, but if you 
did you would not dare get uppity about the odd joke at male expense.  The 
advertisments should not even be legal, let alone long running.  Pity us.  We 
don't even get to laugh at Bob Catter - he is the "We do things differently 
here" (said with much chest puffing pride and posturing) Norm.

Now at least two of those sentences are challenging enough to keep you working 
at them for a while.

Christine

PS  Where are the Friday jokes?  That's something men are good at.  ;-)


-----Original Message-----
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Granat
Sent: Friday, 27 January 2006 15:39
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: OT: English is such a marvelous language


Excuse me ladies but, as a guy, I take exception at your assertion that
this is "a guy thing".

In fact, just this afternoon, I paid 90 bucks to have my Bosch front
loader washer serviced (when "a girl thing" AKA a bra underwire) -
and no, not from an underwear of mine, thank you! - lodged between
its inner and outer drums, as if in some clandestine female plot to
prevent me from washing the fresh towels that I put out every day.

I dunno.  Males in today's society are the target for every sexist
joke and advertisement.

How come women can get away with this stuff in an open forum and on
air but men are seen as being politically incorrect if we dare to respond.

I could call you "Female chauvinist sows" but I know you better than
that, right?

Hygiene is not sexually selective.

I'm offended!

Sheesh, recently I've even been overlooked for key tech writing roles,
despite being the recommended candidate, because the female middle
management in question refused to interview any men.

That's prejudice.

What? Have we got a "glass floor" now?

I'm all for equal opportunity, but men are getting a rough deal at the
moment in many areas (including being universally vilified in federal
government anti-domestic violence campaigns - apparently there is no
such creature as a violent woman - just ask Bodicea).

How did all guys suddenly become either bad or stupid?

What is going on!

Michael Granat
Write Ideas
www.writeideas.com.au

At 16:28 26/01/2006, you wrote:
>Excellent bit of gum shoe, Janice!  You went thru the back door of a 
>site that was not all there yet to get that strip - good showing!
>
>A number of ladies contacted me privately with similar stories and 
>commenting that it indeed appears to be a guy thing.  So ladies 
>thanx to Janice - here's the strip that you requested.
>Guys out there take note
>the only thing worse than a stinky guy
>is a 2 minute man  (however if he's a stinky 2 minute man then two 
>minutes is an eternity).

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