Men = *stab*

[maderr]

I can imagine the lectures I'm going to get for this. But I don't fucking care. I'm tired of it, Sarah I know is fucking tired of it.

So I got a call earlier today, from the Book Exchange (the store S' dad owns). It was robbed. So I called Sarah, she called the police there at the store. She picked me up and we went to the store (I went along in case she had to leave to get plywood for the door, which was busted out). The woman in charge had her sign the report, gave us some numbers, and then left.

The guy there however wouldn't shut the fuck up. First he lectured us on the whole thing. Then he babied us over the fucking gun her dad keeps there. Then he decided to tell how to fix the fucking door, then he did all of that over again.

Then S' dad and his (coworker?) decide that S and I are too fucking imcompetent to take care of things and proceed to play a futile game of phone tag, when if they'd let us manage things we could have finished all of this about an hour or so sooner.

But whatever. I'm going to get yelled as a man-hater, or for being bitchy. I don't care. I know I'm not out of line. I would really like to understand why when stuff comes up, women are suddenly reduced to incompetent. And don't mistake me - I'm no feminazi or anything. YOu'd be surprised how much I dislike them. But I'm intelligent, capable, and competent. It really stings to be treated like a moron just b/c men feel the need to have pissing contests about everythig.

You think I'm mad, Sarah had to deal with most of it. Ugh. About the only men I can stand right now are the ones in my stories.

Comments

[hayama-sb.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it was gender that was the factor, or maybe it was a bad case of "stupidity" that seems to be getting around & should be given epidemic status?

Assuming no one was there when the place was broken into, I figure the guy was pissed off about it & needed someone to take the aggrivation out on & you two just happened to be the "lucky" ones. Or maybe he's just a stupid fuck. I dunno, I wasn't there.

I can kinda see about the gun, since you were with "Miss Klutz", who would probably shot herself in the foot if she tried using it, though I would probably just mentioned it was there (to make you guys aware of it, incase you didn't know) & tell you to leave it alone.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

It was definitely the gender factor. I'm all too aware when I'm being patronized to for having tits. I don't mean to sound bitchy or anything, but it really is *depressing* to be treated like that. Especially when all we wanted to do was help.

Sarah's clumsy, but she's not that clumsy. The damn thing was in its bag and zipped up anyway. We knew it was there, we had no plans to touch it. Repeated lectures were not necessary.

[hayama-sb.livejournal.com]

Probably should have left the asshole to fend for himself, then.

I have seen women do similar things to men when it comes to babies, so it does occur in both genders. I just chalk it up to people being stupid & not with the times.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

It wasn't just one, it was three of them

But you have a point. I guess stupid is stupid.

*hugs*

[skylark97.livejournal.com]

My dad does that, and it annoys the fuck out of me. There's no reasoning with him when he's like that. He assumes that he's right, that the rest of us are helpless and that we need his input on everything. I almost always end up walking away from him and the situation and letting him deal with it, since that's what he seems to want in the first place and since it pisses me off way too much to stick around and listen to him.

It's irritating as fuck, and it's completely unfair. *hugs* I don't think you're being a man-hater or being bitchy. I just think some men are stupid and some can't get around their egos to realize that their input is not always needed or wanted.

I'm sorry you and Sarah had to deal with any and all of it. *hugs to you both*

Re: *hugs*

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks Sky. You are the Roxor.

[raielchan.livejournal.com]

Well, there are plenty of people of both sexes that treat everyone else like they are incompetent.

Just remember. I am not man. I am Devo.

[audaxfemina.livejournal.com]

Speaking from the land of local car trouble, I can say that I agree with you. My battery died, right? I had to explain to at least 6 different people that my battery died when I tried to start the car. I described the exact sound that the car made, and what happened afterwards, and the 6 men that I told it to each interrogated me before deciding that it was the battery. Then I got it to Sears, and they had to check it, to tell me that the battery was bad.

Yes. I don't know how to rebuild an engine, I don't know how to balance a tire, but I can change it, check the oil and top off the fluids! I mean, in every situation, there are *certain* things that I am incapable of doing on my own, but the things you were describing above sounded well within your grasp. Most of the men I know are instinctually overprotective and often unclear at where that line lies. They also tend to go into panic mode, and that means that they have to do something, even if it means treating someone else as an inferior. Men handle stress differently, I guess.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're really bad when it comes to cars. I feel your pain, there.

"Handle stress differently" is rather a nice way to put it. Far more polite than I was.

[audaxfemina.livejournal.com]

Well, in my family, the girls and guys are evenly matched, so we must be tactful even if my brother wouldn't know tact if it walked up and pissed on his head.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

lmao

you have a beautiful way with words.

[audaxfemina.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm a bit pissy myself, as the university seems to have lost two pieces of a uniform that I was to have turned in, and has placed a block on my registration. I don't have the cash to pay that off yet.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Ah, Universities. they're so good at making other's suffer for their incompetence.

[audaxfemina.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm sitting in the remains of my room, having a nervous breakdown, because I can't find khakis. How many people has that ever happened to? Apparently, me.

My roommate has threatened to do "clean sweep" with me. But if she touches my notebooks, I'll have to hurt someone.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

I can see it's been a rotten week all around.

*hug* good luck?

[audaxfemina.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[indigoraven.livejournal.com]

At least they all said the same thing... ;-> When my car died, I was told everything from the battery to the alternator, to the "Throttle switch." Turned out, it was as simple as the battery had corroded around the post and the post had pulled out of the battery entirely. Easy fix, I put in the new battery myself.

[audaxfemina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but see, I'm like three months from being 22, I graduated in May with a degree in Molecular and Cell Biology... they *should* give me a little credit, yeah?

[indigoraven.livejournal.com]

Eh, I'm nearly 23 and a Petty Officer in the United States Navy. Apparently no one is immune. ;->

[audaxfemina.livejournal.com]

Ah. That was my uncle's problem with some of the officers he dealt with in the Navy. Somehow, the butterbars knew more than him. I'm talking about how they don't think I have any common sense...

[goofyrobo.livejournal.com]

huh.

David Commins Prize for Man of the Year

[mashoogina.livejournal.com]

We at the David Commins Man Stupidity Foundation like to honour as many STUPID FUCKING MEN as possible every year, so this year, in addition to the other three dozen men who have made the grade, we would like to honour

Random Co-Worker Man Who Talks Dumb to Sarah and Derr

This is a highly prestigious honour, and we hope that you will find a suitable frame that amply compensates for your small penis.

Congratulations!

Re: David Commins Prize for Man of the Year

[abiona-sashenka.livejournal.com]

lmfao... can we gather all of the award winners together for an awards ceremony and then burn the joint down Carrie style???

Re: David Commins Prize for Man of the Year

[maderr.livejournal.com]

I'll bring gasoline.

Re: David Commins Prize for Man of the Year

[maderr.livejournal.com]

I love you Queen. I just wanted you to know that.

[jadis31.livejournal.com]

This just randomly reminded me of the theatre at my college. I went to a women's college, so the tech crew was obviously all female.

One day we were working on a set. We had a sheet of plywood stretched out between two trash cans we were using as saw horses. I was just screwing down the jig to start cutting when two men who worked for the school came in. They were there to move a row of seats out of the auditorium. They came up on MY stage and started to lecture us about how to properly cut wood. Like we didn't do it for a fucking living or something.

after about 5 minutes of us ignoring them, they went to go do their thing. They then realized they hadn't brought a screw gun. They had to borrow one from us... I think the cockiest thing I have ever said it my life may still be "are you sure you know how to use it? see, this here is the trigger..."

There was something fabulous about laughing at them.

Hope that made you smile. I am still grinning remembering it.

Love and Lesbians,
Jo

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Most definitely made me smile. Glad you got one up on him.

[starparty.livejournal.com]

That. Is. Beautiful.

I needed that laugh!

[goofyrobo.livejournal.com]

That is pretty damn funny. I hate when men act like men sometimes too...and I'm male.

Love and boxchomps.

[inklacedfeather.livejournal.com]

I'd have to agree with you The best men or made up men. ::nodnod::

::huggles::