LordChaverly
27-06-2008, 19:29
1. Most are overgrown boys in their mentalities, regardless of their biological ages (which accounts for the success of Top Gear, which is surely the quintessential boyzone for males of all ages).
2. Brain ‘over-ride’ (even a man with a large amount of brain power can have his intellectual faculties disabled in a nano-second by a rising libido, and when this rises his common sense tends to go into free fall as well).
3. Fickleness. In affairs of the heart (and certainly if affairs of the groin) men are biologically programmed to stray (rather like butterflies, i.e. they are happiest and probably most in tune with their true natures when they are floating from flower to flower). Of course there are various constraints which inhibit their capacity to stray, but if these were removed their polygamous predispositions would quickly assert themselves. It is perhaps not too much of an exaggeration to say that the only time a man really wants to make love to the same woman twice is just before he has made love to her once. For this reason, the prospect of pastures new will always be more appealing than the prospect of endlessly tilling the same field, however initially appealing that field may once have been;
4. A nascent pre-disposition for violence. The male predilection for violent films, and men’s fascination with warfare, is easily explained, i.e. even within the most mild mannered of men there is a vicious primeval chimp struggling to get out. This residual viciousness in males can be chained up and sublimated by means of legal and moral constraints, but can never be entirely extirpated from the male psyche.
5. Destructive tendencies. When a group of girls get together (in between the chatter) they are likely to make things. When a group of boys get together, they are likely to break things. This collectively malevolent tendency, which is probably related to the vicious chimp syndrome referred to above, is usually suppressed in adult hood, but can be re-kindled.
6. Hygiene deficiencies. Very few women in my experience are physically dirty by choice or inclination. Conversely, the standard of personal hygiene in men can often leave much to be desired. I have known a fair number of dirty and noisome males, some of whom have been well-educated professionals. This undesirable and frequently malodorous trait is normally kept in check by female partners, but when men are left on their own for any length of time, their standards of hygiene are likely to soon start to slip (as exemplified by the state of their fridges and sinks etc).
7. Competitiveness. Men are not only naturally competitive, but also often pointlessly and vaingloriously so, i.e. when in situations which are petty, trivial and inconsequential. I think that this trait, which so often descends into petty point-scoring, has to do with the group competition to become the alpha male, or to attain some other point in the social hierarchy. The male tendency to seek to overtake other drivers probably has its origins in this syndrome, i.e. even when there is no point at all or little ground to be gained, they still do it.
8. Physiognomy. Not only do I find men in general physically unappealing, I find many of them to be actually repulsive, particularly the middle-aged, hairy, balding, pot-bellied, pony-tailed, tattooed, baseball-capped, ear-ringed orc-like creatures who congregate at airports, at football matches or outside the offices of A4e. Conversely, I find that even plain women (with obvious exceptions, such as Ann Widdecombe or Lillian from ‘Shameless’) usually have some appealingly redeeming features.
9. Obsession with sports. This is probably related to the competitive instinct mentioned above, but is also a familiar conduit for male bonding (although definitely not in my case).
10. They are not women. My ideal world would be exclusively inhabited by women, with one exception, i.e. me. I would ask them to form an orderly queue as they competed for my carnal favours.
2. Brain ‘over-ride’ (even a man with a large amount of brain power can have his intellectual faculties disabled in a nano-second by a rising libido, and when this rises his common sense tends to go into free fall as well).
3. Fickleness. In affairs of the heart (and certainly if affairs of the groin) men are biologically programmed to stray (rather like butterflies, i.e. they are happiest and probably most in tune with their true natures when they are floating from flower to flower). Of course there are various constraints which inhibit their capacity to stray, but if these were removed their polygamous predispositions would quickly assert themselves. It is perhaps not too much of an exaggeration to say that the only time a man really wants to make love to the same woman twice is just before he has made love to her once. For this reason, the prospect of pastures new will always be more appealing than the prospect of endlessly tilling the same field, however initially appealing that field may once have been;
4. A nascent pre-disposition for violence. The male predilection for violent films, and men’s fascination with warfare, is easily explained, i.e. even within the most mild mannered of men there is a vicious primeval chimp struggling to get out. This residual viciousness in males can be chained up and sublimated by means of legal and moral constraints, but can never be entirely extirpated from the male psyche.
5. Destructive tendencies. When a group of girls get together (in between the chatter) they are likely to make things. When a group of boys get together, they are likely to break things. This collectively malevolent tendency, which is probably related to the vicious chimp syndrome referred to above, is usually suppressed in adult hood, but can be re-kindled.
6. Hygiene deficiencies. Very few women in my experience are physically dirty by choice or inclination. Conversely, the standard of personal hygiene in men can often leave much to be desired. I have known a fair number of dirty and noisome males, some of whom have been well-educated professionals. This undesirable and frequently malodorous trait is normally kept in check by female partners, but when men are left on their own for any length of time, their standards of hygiene are likely to soon start to slip (as exemplified by the state of their fridges and sinks etc).
7. Competitiveness. Men are not only naturally competitive, but also often pointlessly and vaingloriously so, i.e. when in situations which are petty, trivial and inconsequential. I think that this trait, which so often descends into petty point-scoring, has to do with the group competition to become the alpha male, or to attain some other point in the social hierarchy. The male tendency to seek to overtake other drivers probably has its origins in this syndrome, i.e. even when there is no point at all or little ground to be gained, they still do it.
8. Physiognomy. Not only do I find men in general physically unappealing, I find many of them to be actually repulsive, particularly the middle-aged, hairy, balding, pot-bellied, pony-tailed, tattooed, baseball-capped, ear-ringed orc-like creatures who congregate at airports, at football matches or outside the offices of A4e. Conversely, I find that even plain women (with obvious exceptions, such as Ann Widdecombe or Lillian from ‘Shameless’) usually have some appealingly redeeming features.
9. Obsession with sports. This is probably related to the competitive instinct mentioned above, but is also a familiar conduit for male bonding (although definitely not in my case).
10. They are not women. My ideal world would be exclusively inhabited by women, with one exception, i.e. me. I would ask them to form an orderly queue as they competed for my carnal favours.