I'm not perfect, but...

I was reading a "How to make your guy feel special" article, and while some of it was good stuff there was one tip that made me raise my eyebrows, and here it is:

7. Greet him with surprises:
Your daily routine of going to the office and coming back can take a toll on your love life. But unless you take initiative, nothing will sort itself out. Try something new every day. Greet your man with flowers or a nice drink or a surprise movie at your home theater.

Yes, that's right. A long day at work might make your man feel neglected so you should bring him flowers to say you're sorry. With such wonderful tips like this it's no wonder most younger guys are either gay or look it. It's all fun and games for me to tell my husband his fingernails are gross and offer him my nail file. It's quite something else if he actually listens to me! Men are supposed to be barbaric to a point. I would never actually want my husband to keep his nails all neat and proper. I would never want him to shave any part of his body, or style his hair with product. Hypocritical though it may sound, I do think the emo look is hot. And that has got to be because the hair is long and I kinda have a thing for loose strands that fall across the face. But it is possible to be manly and still have long hair, in the days of old all men had long hair. I do not understand the desire for any man to have short hair. Even the ugliest of short-hairs can be transformed into knights in shining armor upon letting their hair grow out.

I might sound anti-feminist for saying so, but women do not help men be manly anymore. We work jobs for them while they stay at home (something I have done but not because my man wanted it so), we wear the suits, we bring in the money, we expect them to make dinner, we expect them to clean, we swear profusely, we drink as much as they do. We go around offering ourselves to anyone, showing off all we've got, and generally being trashy. They have no reason to be men anymore, they don't have to, we the men now. And we have turned the real men into women. But when it all comes down to it we just are not built like men are, mentally and physically. There's no point in walking into a wall repeatedly and expect it to break simply because "That man over there walked through the wall", he did so with strength. As for us, we should get a ladder or jump to grab the ledge to pull ourselves over. We should use what we've got instead of what we wish we had.

Shame. Google's defines the word thus: Noun: A painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior. I believe it is a word most of us have forgotten about. Us with our low vocabularies. The children of today would not even know where to begin reading real books in their world of texting in as few words as possible with as many abbreviations as possible.

I suppose the point here is that a man should be treated certain ways by women and that is that they should at least not treat men as though they were women, which is an act I myself am guilty of. That's not to say your man can be a slob, because he can be a gentleman as well as a man. It all depends. Do you give him a reason to be a man?