MEN VS. WOMEN
A compiled edition from various sources
Women have many faults
Men only have 2
Everything they say
And everything they do
RELATIONSHIPS
First, a man does not call a relationship a relationship - he refers
to it as “that time when me and
Suzie were boinking on a semi-regular basis.”
When a relationship ends, a woman will cry and pour her heart out to
her girlfriends, and she will
write a poem titled “All Men Are Idiots.” Then she will get on with
her life.
A man has a little more trouble letting go. Six months after the
breakup at 3 am early on a Sunday
morning - he will call and say “I just wanted you to let you know you
ruined my life, and I’ll never
forgive you, and I hate you, and you’re a total floozy. But I want you
to know there’s always a
chance for us.” This is known as the “I Hate You/I Love You” drunken
phone call, that 99% of all
men have made at least once. There are community colleges that offer
courses to help men get over
this need; alas these classes rarely prove effective.
SEX
Women prefer 30-45 minutes of foreplay.
Men prefer 30-45 seconds of foreplay. Men consider driving back to her
place as part of the
foreplay.
MATURITY
Women mature much faster than men. Most 17-year-old females can
function as adults.
Most 17-year-old males are still trading baseball cards and giving
each other wedgies after gym
class. This is why high school romances rarely work out.
HATS
Women look good in hats; men look like dinks.
COMEDY
Let’s say a small group of men and women are in a room, watching tele-
vision, and an episode of
“The Three Stooges” comes on. Immediately, the men will get very
excited - they will laugh
uproariously, and even try to imitate the actions of Curly, man’s
favorite Stooge.
The women will roll their eys and groan and wait it out.
HANDWRITING
To their credit, men do not decorate their penmanship. They just
chicken-scratch.
Women use scented, colored stationery and they dot their “i’s” with
circles and hearts. Women use
ridiculously large loops in their “p’s” and “g’s.” It is a royal pain
to read a note from a woman. Even
when she’s dumping you, she’ll put a smiley face at the end of the
note.
BATHROOMS
A man has at most six items in his bathroom - a toothbrush,
toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar
of soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn.
The average number of items in a typical woman’s bathroom is 437. A
man would not be able to
identify most of these items.
MAGAZINES
Men’s magazines often feature pictures of naked women.
Women’s magazines also feature pictures of naked women. This is
because the female body is a
beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and
should not be seen by the light of
day.
GROCERIES
A woman makes a list of things she needs and then goes to the store
and buys these things.
A man waits until the only items left in his fridge are half of a
lemon, and something turning green.
Then he goes grocery shopping. He buys everything that looks good. By
the time he reaches the
checkout counter, his cart is packed tighter than the Clampett’s car
on The Beverley Hillbillies. Of
course, this will not stop him from going to the 10-items-or-less
lane.
GOING OUT
When a man says he’s ready to go out, it means he’s ready to go out.
When a woman says she’s ready to go out, it means that she WILL be
ready to go out, as soon as
she finds her other earring, finishes putting on her makeup…
SHOES
When preparing for work, a woman will put on a Mondi wool suit, and
then slip into Reebok
sneakers. She will carry her dress shoes in a plastic bag from Saks.
When she arrives at work, she
will put on her dress shoes. Five minutes later, she will kick them
off because her feet are under her
desk.
A man wears one pair of shoes for the entire day.
LEG WARMERS
Leg warmers are sexy. A woman, even if she’s walking the dog or doing
the dishes, is allowed to
wear leg warmers. She can wear them any time she wants.
A man can only wear leg warmers if he is auditioning for the “Gimme
the Ball” number in “A Chorus
Line.”
CATS
Women love cats.
Men say they love cats, but when women aren’t looking, men kick cats.
MIRRORS
Men are vain; they will check themselves out in the mirror.
Women are ridiculous; they will check out their reflections in any
shiny surface - mirrors, spoons,
store windows, toasters, Joe Garagiola’s head…
GARAGES
Women use garages to park their cars and to store their lawnmowers.
Men use garages for many things. They hang license plates in garages,
they watch TV in garages,
and they build useless wooden things in garages.
MOVIES
For women, their favorite movie scene is when Clark Gable kisses
Vivien Leigh for the first time in
“Gone With The Wind.”
For men, it’s when Jimmy Cagney shoves a grapefruit in Mae Clark’s
face in “Public Enemy.”
JEWELRY
Women look nice when they wear jewelry.
A man can get away with wearing one ring, and that’s it. Any more than
that, and he will look like a
lounge singer named Vic.
MENOPAUSE
When a woman reaches menopause, she goes through a variety of
complicated emotional,
psychological, and biological changes. The nature and degree of the
changes varies with the
individual.
Menopause in a man provokes a uniform reaction. He buys aviator
glasses, a snazzy French cap and
leather driving gloves, and goes shopping for an expensive foreign
sports car.
THE TELEPHONE
Men see the telephone as a communications tool. They use the telephone
to send short messages to
other people.
A woman can visit her girlfriend for two weeks, and upon returning
home, she will call the same
friend and they will talk for three hours.
LOW BLOWS
Let’s say a man and a woman are watching a boxing match on television,
and one of the fighters is
felled by a low blow.
The woman says, “Oh, gee, that must hurt.”
The man doubles over and actually feels the pain.
DIRECTIONS:
If a woman is out driving and she finds herself in unfamiliar
surroundings, she will stop at a gas station
and ask for directions.
Men consider this to be a sign of weakness. A man will never stop and
ask for directions. Men will
drive in a circle for hours, all the while saying things like, “Looks
like I’ve found a new way to get
there,” and, “I know I’m in the neighborhood. I recognize that White
Hen store.”
ADMITTING MISTAKES
Women will sometimes admit making a mistake.
The last man who admitted that he was wrong was General George Custer.
RICHARD GERE
Women like Richard Gere because he is sexy in a dangerous way.
Men hate Richard Gere because he reminds them of that slick guy who
works out at the health club
and dates only married women.
OFFSPRING
Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about
dentist appointments and
soccer games and romances and best friends and favorite foods and
secret fears and hopes and
dreams.
A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
DRESSING UP:
A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the
garbage, answer the phone, read
a book, get the mail…
A man will dress up for: weddings and funerals.
NUDITY IN MOVIES
Every actress in the history of movies has had to do a nude scene.
This is because every movie in the
history of movies has been produced by men.
The only actor who has ever appeard nude in the movies is Richard
Gere. This is another reason
why men hate him.
DAVID LETTERMAN
Men think David Letterman is the funniest man on the face of the
earth.
Women think he is a mean, semi-dorky guy who always has a bad haircut.
CAMERAS
Men take photography very seriously. They’ll shell out $4000 for
state- of-the-art equipment, and
build darkrooms, and take photography classes.
Women purchase Kodak Insta-matics, and often produce better-looking
shots.
POLITICS
Men love to talk about politics, but they often forget to do political
things such as voting.
Women are very happy that another generation of Kennedys are growing
up and getting into politics,
because they will be able to campaign for them and cry on election
night.
LOCKER ROOMS
In the locker room, men talk about three things: money, football, and
women. They exaggerate about
money, they don’t know football nearly as well as they think they do,
and they fabricate stories about
women.
Women talk about one thing in the locker room - sex. Not in abstract
terms, either. They’re graphic
and technical, and they never lie.
LAUNDRY
Women do laundry every couple of days.
A man will wear every article of clothing he owns, including his
surgical pants that were hip about
eight years ago, before he will do his laundry. When he is finally out
of clothes, he will wear a dirty
sweatshirt inside out, rent a U-Haul and take his mountain of clothes
to the laundromat, and expect
to meet a beautiful woman while he is there.
WEDDINGS
When reminiscing about weddings, women talk about the “ceremony.”
Men talk about “the bachelor party.”
CHEERLEADERS
Female cheerleaders are cute, sexy, fresh, and all-American.
Male cheerleaders are scary.
GYM SOCKS
Men wear sensible socks. They wear standard white sweatsocks.
Women wear strange socks. They are cut way below the ankles, have
pictures of clouds on them,
and have a big fuzzy ball on the back.
TOYS
Little girls love to play with toys. Then, when they reach the age of
11 or 12, they lose interest.
Men never grow out of their obsession with toys. As they get older,
their toys simply become more
expensive and impractical. Examples of mens toys: miniature TV’s, car
phones, complicated juicers
and blenders, graphic equalizers, small robots that serve cocktails on
command, video games, and
anything that blinks, beeps and requires at least six “D” batteries to
operate.
PLANTS
A woman will ask a man to water her plants while she is on vacation.
The man will water the plants.
The woman returns five days later, to an apartment full of dead
plants. No one knows why this
happens.
MUSTACHES
Some men look good with mustaches: Tom Selleck and Burt Reynolds.
There are no women who look good with mustaches.
NICKNAMES
With the exception of female body-builders, who call each other names
like “Ultimate Pecs” and “Big
Turk,” women eschew the use of nicknames. If Gloria, Suzanne, Deborah
and Michelle get together
for lunch, they will call each other Gloria, Suzanne, Deborah and
Michelle.
But if Mike, Dave, and Jack go out for a brewski, they will
affectionately refer to each other as
Peckerhead, Scumbag, and Louse.