What Men Don't Like About Women (circa 1945)

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A selection of poll options from the Table of Contents of Thomas D. Horton's "What Men Don't Like About Women" (1945; pub by Esquire)

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
Their murder of love 6
Their assumptions with regard to lunch 5
Their morning manners 3
Their boy friends 3
Their unfair sex practices 2
Their contempt for the art of walking 2
Their insistence on orchestra seats 1
Their over-listening 1
Their bad manners, teasing, and hoggishness 1
Their initial impoliteness 1
Their astounding irrelevancies 1
Their incurable saving of all letters 1
Their strange demands 1
Their refusal to excuse delay 1
Their use of the post office as a free detective agency 1
Their treatment of loans as gifts 0
Their girlishness at the concert hall 0
Their movie manners 0
Their incompetence as theatre goers 0
Their ineptness 0
Their "borrowing" via the telegraph 0
Their contempt for him who borrows 0
What they really dream about 0
What they don't dream about 0
Their vulgar talk 0
Their timing and pro-rating of "loans" 0
Their unholy business sense 0
Their uncleanliness and poor taste 0
Their discourtesy 0
Their impertinent questions 0
Their gross discourtesy 0
Their snooping 0
Their impudent criticisms 0
Their strange gratitude 0
Their free medical advice 0
Their special rudeness 0
Their messy tidiness 0
Their open-faced bid for a free dinner 0
Their lack of consideration 0
Their misapplied femininity 0
Their private lives 0
Their appalling desk manners 0
Their dull stories 0
Their pretended culture 0
Their lack of shame 0
Their method of not paying 0


Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:02 (ten years ago)

"contempt for the art of walking" or gtfo

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:03 (ten years ago)

Their "borrowing" via the telegraph

??

jmm, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:05 (ten years ago)

These would make really great titles for a series of books. The Strange Gratitude of Ms. Palfrey. Ms. Palfrey And Her Assumptions With Regard To Lunch.

Snapper Raffles (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:09 (ten years ago)

Is he saying women often commit telegraph fraud?

jmm, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:10 (ten years ago)

Nancy Drew and the Case of the Misapplied Femininity

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:11 (ten years ago)

Their open-faced bid for a free dinner
Their lack of consideration
Their misapplied femininity
Their private lives
Their boy friends
Their dull stories
Their pretended culture
Their unfair sex practices

What Sane People Don't Like About Republicans

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:16 (ten years ago)

murder of love

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:21 (ten years ago)

"appalling desk manners" opens up a world of etiquette to me that i never knew existed.

ryan, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:29 (ten years ago)

Good heavens, that woman has placed the fountain pen in the stand off plumb yet again!

Snapper Raffles (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:33 (ten years ago)

Very curious what "use of the post office as a free detective agency" involves.

jmm, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:50 (ten years ago)

So torn between "assumptions with regard to lunch" and "free medical advice."

the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:56 (ten years ago)

Their timing and pro-rating of "loans"

j., Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:58 (ten years ago)

damn them and their over-listening

Brad C., Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:59 (ten years ago)

I associate dull stories more with dudez tbh

rip van wanko, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 17:00 (ten years ago)

I'm going to vote for 'Their contempt for the art of walking'. It irks me to this day how little respect women have for the level of my craft.

Snapper Raffles (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 17:11 (ten years ago)

What are we voting for? Funniest, best virtue or something else?

Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 17:16 (ten years ago)

Very curious what "use of the post office as a free detective agency" involves.

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presumably the 1945 equiv of overly suspicious text messages

there was a lot of beer and people doing sit ups, (laughs) (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 17:23 (ten years ago)

their boy friends are usually pretty awful tbf

fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 17:51 (ten years ago)

"What they don't dream about" wtf

fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 17:52 (ten years ago)

lol what they dream about AND what they don't

miss, yr dreams stand utterly accused

what is yr defense for yrself

j., Wednesday, 17 June 2015 17:54 (ten years ago)

Guys, don't you just hate it when your ladyfriend shares the things she really dreams about with you? The worst! But the thing that really burns me up is when she shares the things she doesn't dream about!

It's lovely to see that the nascent MRA movement was just as incoherent 70 years ago as it is today.

Snapper Raffles (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 17:55 (ten years ago)

Their insistence on orchestra seats

ciderpress, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 18:01 (ten years ago)

Sure glad wimmen are (presumably) exemplary radio-listeners, since they're hopeless at the theatre/movies/concerts

Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 18:02 (ten years ago)

why can't they learn to just sit there and watch and listen

xp

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 18:06 (ten years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Monday, 22 June 2015 00:01 (ten years ago)

"their assumptions with regard to lunch" really has my interest piqued.

A Smedley Adoption (get bent), Monday, 22 June 2015 04:29 (ten years ago)

man, i want some free medical advice.

A Smedley Adoption (get bent), Monday, 22 June 2015 04:49 (ten years ago)

Their girlishness at the concert hall is always the cutest damn thing

alomar lines, Monday, 22 June 2015 05:13 (ten years ago)

"contempt for the art of walking" or gtfo

Not to mention "The Modern Dance" or "Dub Housing"

Mark G, Monday, 22 June 2015 06:34 (ten years ago)

Yeah, "murder of love" seems like a charge that has quite a story behind it

Purves Grundy (kingfish), Monday, 22 June 2015 07:00 (ten years ago)

Amazing.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 22 June 2015 08:14 (ten years ago)

Their unfair sex practices. Especially because that's listed under 'women in the office'.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 22 June 2015 08:15 (ten years ago)

Their insistence on orchestra seats
Their incompetence as theatre goers
Their movie manners
Their girlishness at the concert hall
Their contempt for the art of walking

Ron Mael, where are you?

Mark G, Monday, 22 June 2015 10:03 (ten years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 00:01 (ten years ago)

"their over-listening" wuz robbed

A Smedley Adoption (get bent), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 00:03 (ten years ago)


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