From UC Davis study revealed that men dont always hear what women say. I know I couldn’t believe it either! LOL Can you believe they wasted good grant money to study something we already know?

According to the study, when a man and woman are making out and she says, Its getting late, what she means is, Help me find my bra. Its time to go home.

The study says that men hear something entirely different.

To them, Its getting late, comes across as, Lets skip the foreplay and get right to the good stuff. The fact that some men continue to underestimate the value of foreplay is still a mystery to me, but there it is in black and white.

The Davis study implies that men interpret what women say by trying to imagine what they would mean. In other words, the only reason a man can imagine himself saying Its getting late while making out is to let the woman know its time to speed things up. I confess this interpretation never occurred to me, but upon reading it, I can see where men may have a point.

This got me to thinking, what other situations do women say X and men hear Y? –or maybe the other way around.

When she says, Lets just be friends, she really means, Lets stay in touch in case I need to borrow your truck to pick up a couch I bought on Ebay.

When he says it, he really means, Lets stay in touch because I still want us to have sex, but I dont want to spend holidays with your family or buy you birthday presents.

When she says, Were free to date other people, what she really means is, Im dating this other guy I like more, but hes afraid to commit, which probably means hes seeing someone he likes more and if thats true, Im going to stop seeing him and only see you.

When he says it, he means, Im keeping my options open in case Sharon Stone is looking for a new man. FYI, ladies, some men keep their options open right up until the last stripper leaves the bachelor party.

When she says, Lets just cuddle, she means it.

When he says it, he really means, I got some earlier and Im straight.

When she says, Not tonight, I have a headache, she really means, I got some earlier and Im straight.

She might also mean, The last time we did it, it wasnt so great and Id rather not have sex than have bad sex and I was afraid to mention it because my birthdays coming up and Im expecting you to buy me a present.

When he says, Not tonight, I have a headache, he means it.

Now fellas, pay close attention because the next two are tricky.

If in the middle of making out she says, I just got my hair done, what she means is, If youre willing to pay for me to get my do re-done, we can do it. If not, get off me.

If in the middle of making out, she says, I dont want to mess my hair up, what shes saying is, If youre cool with me just laying here, ok. If not, get off me.

If he says either of the above, it doesnt matter what he really meansjust run, woman, run!

Finally, when she says, I do, what she means is, Thank God, now I dont have to go to parties alone.

When he says it, he really means, Thank God, now someone else can do my laundry.

Lets face it; the sexes have never spoken the same language. If we did, wed still be running around naked and carefree in the Garden of Eden. The devil was a man, right? And when he told Eve, Nothing bad will happen if you bite that apple, what he really meant was, Nothing bad will happen to me if you bite that apple, but life is gonna suck for you. Thus making Eve the first woman to stupidly take a man at his word, but certainly not the last.

And we dont need a study to tell us that.

I found a website filled with legends and myths about menstruation. How times have changed. One of the things is that women shouldn’t have sex during their periods. Today we know that many women who have sex during Aunty Flo’s visit report reduced cramping. Here are some of the myths.

• Hair washed during a gal’s period will not hold a curl; it will instead hang limp and ratty.
• Fruits or vegetables canned by a menstruating woman will spoil in the can.
• Visits to the dentist should be put off until after ‘the curse’ has passed, because fillings put in during this interval will fall out.
• Mayonnaise a menstruating woman has a hand in producing will not come together; it will instead curdle.
• Touching fruit trees during this time is prohibited because such contact will spoil the fruit even as it hangs on the tree.
• A gal experiencing ‘a visit from Aunt Flo’ should avoid going near wineries, lest her presence turn the wine into vinegar.
• Breadmaking will fail because the dough will refuse to rise.
• A girl enduring ‘the scourge of Eve’ mustn’t be allowed to take a turn at the butter churn because the butter will not “come,” that is, won’t form into a solid mass.
• Any jam or jelly a woman attempts to make at ‘that time of the month’ will fail to set.
• Hams hung to cure must not be touched by a woman during catamenia lest contact with her cause them to spoil.
• During her monthlies, a gal must not butcher meat lest she cause it to rot.

Additional taboos attempt to limit the activities of menstruating women:

• A gal experiencing her monthlies should not engage in sexual activity.
• A woman should not bathe or go swimming during Aunt Flo’s visit. (This one likely springs from a fear of contamination via menstrual blood’s being transmitted to the water where others are paddling or bathing.)
• A menstruating female should also be barred from joining any hunting party lest her presence scare off the game. (In theory, prey animals will scent her blood, which will send them scurrying. Were this the case, the deodorants, soaps, and detergents used by any of the expedition’s members would probably have long since put the wind up the tails of the hunted.)

My father always said that women couldn’t whip cream during their periods, it just wouldn’t thicken. He swore by it but I proved him wrong.

How many times have we heard men say, “I’ll never understand women!!”? We are a baffling bunch sometimes and I can understand how some men can feel like we’re driving them to distraction when all they want to do is make us happy. So what are we looking for and not getting that’s causing the problems?

We’re People
Just because we’ve got boobs and we can have babies doesn’t make us less than a man. Every time you talk down to us or tell us we can’t do something or think we shouldn’t be paid as much just because we’re women – we get angry. We seethe inside but on the outside we’re paddling like usual. Then when you say something or want something all that frustration blows off steam. Sorry about that.

We Like to Make Plans
We like to  feel confident that we’re headed in the right direction and we like commitment to a future together.  It’s okay that YOU don’t like it but we do and we’ll keep looking until we find what will make us happy.  It’s not a judgement about you, you’re probably a lovely guy but don’t ask us to give up our goals so you can live yours.  It doesn’t work that way.  We’re not martyrs, we’re people, look at the paragraph above.

Appreciate us
I’ve never been with a man who didn’t point out everything he’s done around the house.  “Look, I emptied the dishwasher for you.”  Gimme a break.  Why is the dishwasher job mine in the first place?  Isn’t it OUR house?  If the dishes in the dishwasher are clean and you empty it why do you expect thanks?  Do you ever tell us thanks for picking up your dirty laundry?  No.   So if it doesn’t feel good when we don’t say thanks, we feel the same way when you ignore all that we do around the house.  We’re women and that’s not spelled slave.

Don’t Expect Us To Be a Doormat
Nothing makes us happier than being treated as your equal.  We shine in that experience and I gotta tell you, it makes most of us pretty horny.  Don’t take us for granted and expect that we’ll always be there to darn your socks and cook your pudding.  At some point we’ll get sick of it and you’ll be floundering around wondering why we left.

Respect Us
Don’t cheat on us.  If  you’re REALLY not happy, tell us.  We might be miserable too.  We can decide together if the relationship is worth fighting for but don’t trash what we’ve had and make me hate you.  We’re together because we shared a great love.  If that’s gone we’ll survive, we promise.  If you cheat on us just so you can have it all we’ll be very nasty to you.  You’ll know why.

Trust Us and Give Us Space
We don’t want to be under surveillance 24/7.  We don’t want to have to report where we were every minute of every day.  We trust you while you’re away and we expect that same level of confidnce. We don’t want to have to report every penny we spent and suffer the inquisition over any of it.  If money is an issue, talk to us about it but don’t treat us like children.

We’re More Than Just Tits and a Smile
We hate being treated like we’re all stupid blondes.  (Blondes, as a group, are NOT stupid, btw, but there ARE stupid women and men.)  We’re flattered when you think we’re sexy, just like you feel great when we think you’re sexy but we want to be wanted for more than sex.

What inspires women to permanently remove all their pubic hair. The procedure is done using a laser to strip away every genital hair and is gaining in popularity every month. It’s called a “permanent Brazilian.”

The all-off trend has been common practice since the 1990s and is now broadly requested by women of all ages, but very few social science studies have been concerned with the practice. Why DO we want to take it all off permanently? Everyone wants to play around with it at least once and a lot of people wax it all off for months or years at a time – but what if you change your mind? What if it’s not so popular in 10 years or they find out that if you take all your hair off you lose brain cells at a faster rate?

Some people tell me that they feel sexier, feel cleaner and feel a heightened sense of their sexuality without pubic hair.

I guess I can understand why someone would shave it all off but something inside me nudges me to say I’d be unwilling to do anything that would turn me into a pre-pubescent woman permanently. There might come a time when I’d like to cover my hoo hoo with some fur.