I thought this was funny. Wife didn’t. I wonder why?

Turns out that the girly embrace-your-emotions-through-therapy claptrap that liberals have been shoving down our throats since the 60s is bad for you:

… girls who talk very extensively about their problems with friends are likely to become more anxious and depressed. …

“When girls co-ruminate, they’re spending such a high percentage of their time dwelling on problems and concerns that it probably makes them feel sad and more hopeless about the problems because those problems are in the forefront of their minds. Those are symptoms of depression,” Rose said. “In terms of anxiety, co-ruminating likely makes them feel more worried about the problems, including about their consequences. Co-rumination also may lead to depression and anxiety because it takes so much time – time that could be used to engage in other, more positive activities that could help distract youth from their problems. This is especially true for problems that girls can’t control, such as whether a particular boy likes them, or whether they get invited to a party that all of the popular kids are attending.”

Talk about your problems, get depressed. Be a man and repress your emotions, push them deep down inside where they can’t hurt anybody, and you get on with your life.

This is supported by the findings that boys who talked to friends about their problems did not exhibit anxiety or depression. Why? I suspect that it’s because boys don’t get on the phone for hours and obsess about their problems. We’d rather go play football.

Liberals. Bah!

A study indicates that women really don’t talk more than men; in the course of a day members of both sexes utter an average of 16,000 words per day.

Of course, the study only included college students (not those in the work force, moms with small children, and so on).

Moreover, it doesn’t reflect the undisputable fact that women’s words are, on the average, a whole lot more irritating than men’s.*

* Kidding, honey. Don’t make me sleep on the couch again.

With three Democrat presidential candidate promising to eliminate the gender pay gap in America’s workplace, one has to ask what, exactly, is the problem? Steve Chapman reports:

Buried in the report is a startling admission: “After accounting for all factors known to affect wages, about one-quarter of the gap remains unexplained and may be attributed to discrimination” (my emphasis). Another way to put it is that three-quarters of the gap clearly has innocent causes — and that we actually don’t know whether discrimination accounts for the rest. …

June O’Neill, an economist at Baruch College and former director of the Congressional Budget Office, has uncovered something that debunks the discrimination thesis. Take out the effects of marriage and child-rearing, and the difference between the genders suddenly vanishes. “For men and women who never marry and never have children, there is no earnings gap,” she said in an interview.

This information is not new — every time the subject of male vs. female salary comes up we trot out the studies that show that the pay gap is non-existent in this day and age. But using facts to argue with a liberal is like trying to drive nails into a fog bank.

One of every seven Brazilian legislators are being investigated on charges ranging from corruption, embezzlement and bodily harm to manslaughter — and that’s only taking the federal courts into account.

Claudio Abramo, of the non-governmental organization Transparencia Brazil, said the numbers also were a worrying indication of corruption at local and regional levels of government.

Gee, ya think?

Villagers are puzzled by the Chinese government’s decision to paint a mountain green. Theories range from improving the area’s feng shui to the government wishing to appear more “green” — the barren mountain used to be a rock quarry.

Another Hollywood myth explodes: the recent discovery of an ancient coin reveals that Cleopatra wasn’t all that good looking.

Hey ladies, we just can’t help it:

When a man fails to help out around the house, his poor performance might be related to a subconscious tendency to resist doing anything his wife wants, a new study suggests.

We’ve known for a while that our desks and computer keyboards are little germ factories. But now we find that women’s work spaces have four times the bacteria than their male counterparts. My childhood best friend was right — women are gross!

Microsoft released the first security fix for Vista on patch Tuesday. This one is especially ironic for the OS billed as the “most secure ever”: the hole allows someone to take complete control of your computer.

November 21, 2006
- San Jose – Apple Computer Company

Apple Computer announced today that it has developed computer chips that can store and play music inside women’s breasts.

This is considered to be a major breakthrough because women are always complaining about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.

Shopping is a man’s most onerous chore. Shopping with a woman is worse — you don’t get to look at cool tools that do arcane things that you’ll never really do but would like to be able to do (women don’t understand that) nor are there any instruments of destruction like guns or dynamite or even high-powered weed eaters (which women also don’t understand).

Shopping for a woman is even worse. But shopping for a Valentines gift is the worst of all. Shopping for a woman on a day dedicated to something guys only pretend to really understand (romance) brings on a state very similar to the feelings that you would have if you had to sit through a friend’s child’s dance recital while preoccupied with the dread of having your first colonoscopy the very next day.

This is why chocolate sales soar; it’s easy to pick up a box of chocolates and stick a name on it — and it’s socially acceptable. There’s no work and women get to coo over how “thoughtful” their man has been.

But my wife is a most unusual female: she hates chocolate. Which, mind you, has made Valentine’s Day shopping quite a challenge year after year for the last two and a half decades.

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While looking for a particular quote on marriage I stumbled across the Alternative to Marriage Project (I’m not making that up) which has a series of quotes, such as:

“It is…astonishing that…marriage is still legally allowed. If nearly half of anything ended so disastrously, the government would surely ban it immediately. If half the tacos served in restaurants caused dysentery, if half the people learning karate broke their palms, if only 6% of people who went on roller coasters damaged their middle ears, the public would be clamoring for action.”
     — Lionel Tiger

A small but possibly important study shows that men and women react very differently when it comes to empathy towards those that some may say deserve the administration of street justice — uh, some men, that is.

In the study the brains of 16 men and 16 women were monitored while they played a game with someone they thought was another volunteer, but who were actually actors. Some of the actors played fair while others obviously cheated. The volunteers then watched as the hands of the actor received a mild electrical shock.

The brain scans showed that both men and women volunteers empathized when the fair player was shocked. But women emphathized even when the cheater was shocked, while men did not.

More importantly, when the cheater was shocked men actually enjoyed it while women did not. In fact, the more that a male volunteer desired revenge, the more they enjoyed watching the cheater get shocked.

Which is why I’m beginning to reevaluate my position supporting a woman for president.

Nah, I take that back. I don’t care whether she enjoys administering a good ass-whooping, but I remain certain Condi will see the importance of delivering it and — like Bush — will do so.

Hat tip to Les Jones.

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Battle Between the Sexes.

A full 61 percent of women surveyed said they would rather see a man’s hands rough and working hard than well-manicured, a slap in the face to the extreme-makeover, suave-guy crowd.

Hey, I’m sexy again! You should see the callouses I get from typing on this keyboard 18 hours a day.

90 percent of women said they prefer low-maintenance, easygoing guys.

Meanwhile, men know that the low-maintenance gal is a mythical creature.

If American women are interested in manly men, then why does Hollywood celebrate men who are in touch with their feelings and fashion?

“Peoples’ values that are reflected on TV often don’t translate into how people view the world,” Mrs. Lukas says. “Despite MTV and the New York City culture being hyped in mainstream media, it’s not how most American women view life and the opposite sex.”

Duh.

Not all observers agree with the survey results.

“Women are looking for confident men, not manly men,” says David Wygant, relationship consultant and co-author of “Always Talk to Strangers.” “These manly men are arrogant. Women don’t want arrogant men.”

No doubt Wygant’s interview was conducted over a large latte while he was waiting for his manicurist.

Personally, I blame this man: