On occasion, I get people asking about some of the comments left by Madfish Willie. They'll say something like, "What's up with him? How come you let him troll your comments like that?"

Troll?

Hell, that ain't trolling, that's male bonding.

#1 guy rule - if someone you like says something rude, it's meant as a compliment. It's a way of saying "I think you're tough enough to take a verbal punch, and I think you're clever enough to give better right back."

Women, however, play a completely different game. With them (all too often) if you say something that can be taken as either completely innocent or mean & hurtful, they'll assume it's the mean & hurtful one (See rule #29).

And oh MY can they be acrobatic about extracting the wrong meaning.

Probably a habit formed over a lifetime of talking with other women, since when one woman says something ambiguous to another woman, she's usually getting in a cleverly-disguised little dig.

It's simply too unladylike to be mean in an upfront fashion, ya know. Gotta be catty about it.

On the other hand, maybe my mind's been poisoned from watching "Desperate Housewives".

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1 You've been watching Desperate Housewives? Doesn't that make you a woman?

Posted by: Contagion at December 27, 2005 08:18 AM (Q5WxB)

2 TNT watches it and she won't let me have the remote :-( THAT'S what makes me a woman :-D

Posted by: Harvey at December 27, 2005 08:25 AM (ubhj8)

3 See, this is why I have hardly any friends that are girls. They generally can't handle the abuse I constantly spew. Men seem to make better friends because they just say it how it is, and pick on you to your face instead of behind your back. You always know where you stand with a guy friend. Women, I just can't figure out. Funny because I am a woman!

Posted by: Sarah at December 27, 2005 11:29 AM (UKWHw)

4 Heh. You're SO going to love Contagion :-D

Posted by: Harvey at December 27, 2005 01:07 PM (ubhj8)

5 What's that supposed to mean you slack jawed hill billy?

Posted by: Contagion at December 27, 2005 02:34 PM (Q5WxB)

6 I watched part of Desperate Housewives once - I thought the writing was really good. I talk out loud when watching TV, usually predicting what the person should say. In many cases, they said what I have. Which is pretty rare. (Without the swearing, of course.) Contagion: that's pretty funny right 'der.

Posted by: _Jon at December 27, 2005 04:21 PM (/R7YK)

7 Didn't I get the same thing once from one of the broads here? And she thought that http://www.donotremove was some sort of dummy address?

Posted by: Phelps at December 30, 2005 10:58 AM (KAQTS)

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