Essential Manners for Men: What to Do, When to Do It, and Why Book

"Essential Manners for Men" is written for sitcom husbands. That guy who is in his underwear drinking beer and won't switch the channel because he loves football so much! *audience in the studio piss themselves LAUGHING* The subtitle of this book is "What to Do, When to Do It, and Why". I was especially interested in the why, because it sounds interesting. Why should we do some of the things we are expected to do? As it turns out, the answer to the why is basically, because its respectable or because women love it. That's basically it. I was hoping for some real, logical reason. For example, we are expected to hold doors for women, but maybe the why for it was that women had the tendency to smash right into doors due to their biologically proven weak visions.

That would have been interesting. But no. You have to hold doors because its expected.

The author is somehow stuck in the 50s and yet tries to be ultra-modern by telling us to listen to women and his 70 year old man's hip advice on video games and SMS.

The book is supposed to be based on hard research, which is basically their institute's shitty surveys on what women want. The thing is, women don't know what they want. I'm not saying that men do, but women specially do not. We're all idiots really, not much changed from our six year old self who's wish is to eat all the candy they can get their hands on and then after our stomach hurts, realizing it wasn't such a neat idea after all.

I'll try to explain this by something from the book. The book has full of quotes from their survey to back up their shitty advice, but look at this great quote,

"Many workplaces may still be a 'man's domain' but that doesn't excuse you to treat women like second-class citizens. Whether you're the CEO or the janitor, you'll get a dazzling smile if you hold the door as you walk through or offer any other professional courtesy you'd offer to a man in the workplace. Not asking for more-just the same."

Everything that is wrong with man-woman relationship in our generation is in that quote! If you are a woman and are reading that sentence and are thinking, "Huh? I don't get it, that's a perfectly fine sentiment" then you are part of the problem! You BITCH!

How can you ask us to hold the door for you as you walk through and then talk about not wanting more, just the same? Are you holding the doors for us? Are you incapable of opening the fucking door and you need a strong Tarzan to do it for you? If door handling is such an important thing for you, fine, I'll open every door so none of you ever have to come in conduct with a door handle again, but please don't ask me to treat you like my male buddies, who are perfectly capable of interacting with doors without the need for a third-party person to do it for them.

The female gender needs to figure out what the fuck they want. You want special treatment or similar treatment. Similar treatment is how men treat each other and that means not holding chairs for each other and not going into a mental breakdown due to toilet seat status.