Top Ten Pet-Peeves Men Have About Women

As a male living in New York City I inevitably have to deal with a lot of women especially considering there are more women in this world then men. Now I love women. I think they are the most beautiful things in all creation. That still does not mean that they are flawless. More and more I hear and see in the media an underlying message that women are somehow infallible and men have all these different character flaws (this is a sad byproduct of the feminist movement no doubt). So in an attempt to level the playing field and give women a glimpse into the male mind I took it upon myself to survey some of the males I know about the things that irritate them the most about the opposite sex.

10. CALLING US FOR NOTHING
One thing I kept hearing over and over in my dialogs with my other guy friends was that they are really annoyed when women interrupt their day with several meaningless phone calls. There is a differentiation between phone calls and meaningless phone calls. A phone call sounds something like this:

Male caller: Hello
Female caller: Hey
Male caller: Whats up?
Female caller: I wanted to know if you wanted to hang out tonight.
Male caller: Sure I'm free
Female caller: cool so ill meet you at the usual place
Male caller: Yea cool.
Female caller: Okay see you later
Male caller: Okay bye

See that? Simple practical and straight to the point now here is a meaningless call that gets on our nerves:

Male caller: Hello
Female caller: Hey
Male caller: Whats up?
Female caller: Nothing just here. What you up to?
Male caller: nothing chilling
Female caller: Thats cool. what you thinking about?

And Blah Blah Blah... for close to an hour.

Its not that men don't enjoy the quick meaningless call every now and then its just that it tends to become a habit and we hate it as one of my interviewees said:
"Its not so much that she is calling its that she is calling AGAIN!"- Rob, Brooklyn NY

9. OVER ANALYZING WHAT WE SAY
Another thing that really sticks in our side is the way that women tend to over analyze everything a man says looking for some hidden meaning when THERE IS NONE. I heard several times during the interview that its really annoying when a women dissects a mans words and then tries to decide what he really meant. And the truth is HE MEANT WHAT HE SAID and nothing more. This probably due to the fact that women themselves tend to say one thing and "mean" something else. This brings us to number eight on the list

8. NOT MEANING WHAT YOU SAY
Now if you dare make this statement about women they will generally act defensively but all the men I have interviewed have described instances where a women has said one thing but meant something entirely different such as: "No I'm not mad." when she really meant "I am so pissed at you and you are so gonna pay for that." A guy I was talking to named Louis describe this the best when he said: "You ever hear your girl say 'I'm Fine' and then you act like she is fine and after a little while of making your life a living hell you begin to realize that she was not really fine"-Louis, Manhattan NY

7. WANTING TO TALK AT THE WRONG TIMES
Seldom do women pick the right moments to engage men in a serious conversation or argument if you will. You see they deliberately pick a time when the man is most at peace or busy to do so. Presumably this is because she wants to really get back at you for making her mad or just expects you to drop what your doing and give her all your attention. This is just plain not smart because instead of being open to negotiation or compromise we are likely to try to brush you off (usually harshly) so we can get back to what we were doing which only fosters further arguing.

6. USING PMS AS AN EXCUSE TO BE B*TCHY
Most men I have spoken to understand that a women goes through hormonal changes during her time of the month but feel that it tends to get exploited like a crutch to push men into submission. It makes us hesitant to do anything we think may tick you off even a little bit because we feel we will get our head bit off for it.

5. JUST PLAIN TALKING TOO MUCH
To be fair to the ladies this one they really cant help. It has been proved through scientific study that women talk way more then men sometime uttering twice as many words as the average man a day. But it still gets on our nerves because you tell us about every little thing that happened to you and truth be told we don't care that much about most of it. Keep it simple get to the important part.

4. OVER DRAMATIZING THINGS
This is something that men have complained about for what seems like centuries. Women tend to be hardwired for taking something thats not that serious and turning it into some kinda made for TV drama minus the lame music. We men are brilliantly simplistic for the most part (sure their are male drama queens too but lets be honest they are way outnumbered by their female counterparts) as such we value not making mountains out of mole hills.

3. C*CK TEASING
Now your talking really making us mad. This takes many forms but all of them annoy men every time. An example of this could be lots of body language signals and flirtations and then suddenly she isn't in the mood anymore. When this happens all a man can think of is "What the hell?!" This is something that will make any and every man angry and sad at the same time. This brings us to number two on the countdown

2. DRESSING OVERLY SEXY AND THEN GETTING MAD WHEN YOU GET MALE ATTENTION
This is a kind of subsection of c*ck teasing. Every man has seen a women dressing with her breasts hanging out her skirt hiked up and her lips and hair just screaming "WANT ME!" and then approaching her only to be met with an attitude. And this is something VERY STUPID that females tend to do. Its basically like holding a sign that says "come here" and when someone does you ask "why did you come here?" Do the world a favor ladies if you don't want to get male attention don't go out of your way to show off your goodies and don't go to a night club only to say "I don't dance." to every guy that asks you for one.

1. TAKING US SHOPPING WITH YOU
This is the freaking worst!!! Every guy I spoke with agreed that shopping with a women is like being in HELL. First of all women don't decide what they want to get before they go out and men do. Men have a rough idea of what we need and we get it and go home. Women look at and analyze everything that catches their attention. Thus they spend WAY MORE TIME shopping then men and the poor guy with them has no choice but to lean against a wall and wait and be bored to death. Next, its like you have to try on sum twenty-five of the same item all different sizes to see which one you fit into WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT SIZE YOU ARE and you just want to see if you can squeeze into the next size smaller. And on top of that a women can walk into a store and try on forty outfits and NOT BUY ONE and just walk out after spending three hours in the store. Another reason this is the most annoying thing in the world to guys is that women love to ask you rhetorical questions during the trip like "Do you like these or these?" and we know it really does not matter what we say you will pick the one you want to pick anyway so the question is a no win situation for us. Another thing is that we become your pack mule, we end up carrying every freaking thing you buy and sometimes (God help us) your purse as well. You add all that up along with mind numbing boredom and you got THE WORST THING YOU CAN DO WITH A MAN. "If you looking to break a mans spirit, take him shopping with you ladies."-Chester, Brooklyn NY