By David Futrelle
The internet has answers to almost any question under the sun. Trouble is, not only are most of the answers wrong, but a lot of the questions themselves are, well, pretty fucking terrible.
Consider the case of this fellow, who turned to the commenters on AskMen.com with a query whose answer was already contained within the question itself.
Dude, the women didn’t answer the question “besides a warm mouth and a vagina, what would you bring to the table?” because you asked them the question “besides a warm mouth and a vagina, what would you bring to the table?”
If you’re asking a question so misogynistic and dehumanizing that it repeatedly causes the women you’re dating to no longer speak with you, the problem isn’t the women, it’s the question — or, more to the point, the person asking the question.
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The best dating advice I can give misogynists is to stop trying to date women. No woman wants to date a man like this, and I certainly hope men like this don’t have children and make more misogynists.
Judging purely by the name, I thought askmen.com would be a resource for women to ask questions of men, not men to ask other men. Either way, it sounds like it would quickly devolve into a troll circle jerk.
Yep – I’m going there…if I were a young dating woman again…
“Besides a hard penis, what would you bring to the table?”
I have a job, roof over my head, car to drive… I pay bills, cook, clean, and anything else I need repaired in the home can be taken care of by hiring a professional service.
I also have sex toys for pleasure and could, if I wanted to, purchase sperm in order to conceive a child without the hassle of a man being in the picture. Also, I could sleep well in the knowledge that my husband/boyfriend would not rape, abuse or kill me or my children.
Sounds like a lot of man-hating, feminazi shit, doesn’t it?
The man in my life brings love, compassion, humor and companionship to the table because he’s a human fucking being. This dude really should look into becoming one.
Well, I’m not a woman, so won’t ever be asked that question. But my answer would be “Your face” and then I smash his face into the table.
Anyone who would ask what someone brings to the table is automatically undateable. You date someone because you like them. Clearly the concept of just liking a woman as a person is foreign to him. Why would any woman want to try and prove her worth to him.
I can boil water with rocks
Checked it out. It’s apparently the online forum/Q&A section of a men’s magazine, there are a variety of questions (men asking other men, women asking men), and the answers given are overwhelmingly pushing back against the OP.
OP also indicates that rewording the question to remove references to body parts has not changed the “quality” of the responses (uh huh), and that he usually asks this after they ask “what are we” with regards to their relationship, and that he’s never driven off any woman by asking that question ?.
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https://www.artfund.org/whats-on/exhibitions/2019/06/12/kiss-my-genders-exhibition
I think it’s very considerate of the guy to ask that question. It immediately tells a woman the she needs to get the hell away from him.
Well, as a response to “what are we?”, that would certainly tell me everything I needed to know 0.0
Right? “We are done.”
Come on, what woman doesn’t enjoy trying to prove to her skeptical date that she’s more sentient than a kitchen appliance?
If his date also can do those things, then why is she the redundant one? Why is it up to her to prove her worth to someone who’s so basic, he pats himself on the back for knowing how to perform routine adult chores?
I can bring kindness, joy, and artistic expression to the world in ways that he will never know. And he can stay far away from the rest of us as long as he talks like that.
I think it’s safe to say that, with respect to the OP, I’m not even bringing a warm mouth and a vagina to the table. Orifices are firmly off the table.
When I was doing online dating, I always kinda loved these sort of people. It was such an easy ‘next’ and no need to waste any further time debating compatibility or setting up a date to test chemistry.
Like anyone – I bring to the table a whole range of pluses and minuses which may or may not work with someone else’s. I found someone whose hand complements mine. Except on the tidiness front – but hey ho, at least we’re tolerant of each others’ faults there.
@lainy I’m not sure either of us can boil water with rocks, but I’d sure like to try. Good skill.
An understanding of the difference between singular and plural, not to mention the difference between possessive and plural.
The ability to foretell your immediate future.
“I have a keen instinct for spotting red flags and emotional dumpster fires. In related news, I’m going to go outside for an unspecified reason and time without you.”
“Besides a warm mouth and a vagina, what would you bring to the table?”
“As of now for you, nothing.”
Yes, it’s truly a mystery why women would be put off by being assumed by default worth no more than her body parts unless you can be persuaded otherwise. Doesn’t speak at all of an obnoxious asshole who believes off the top that he’s above you.
Dude, I have a house, very easy to use mass transportation, I’m a performer, my mom is a chef and taught me how to cook, I can clean my own house and do my own laundry. Oh, you say that I didn’t mention a job? That’s because I don’t have just a “job”, I run my own business.
I’m recovering from a dumping right now that (I’m pretty sure) happened because I was caretaking my dying grandma for three months and my boyfriend just wasn’t “feeling very loved” and determined it was because I was taking my feminism too far.
Even when they’re not being such total trash as the guy above, they still have no goddamn clue what the score is and refuse to see all the work we do to hold their emotions and our relationships together.
@LG: that’s awful, I’m so sorry that happened to you.
The selfishness of some people…
Thanks. It was such an extraordinary display of projection because yeah, I’d been getting frustrated that after five years together, he was still showing no signs of being willing to work on his sexist mental blocks and yeah, the stress of the caretaking was making me a bit less than eternally and perfectly fucking patient about it.
But he wouldn’t hear a word I said about how the caretaking dynamic was affecting things and could he please be patient with me or, maybe, could we please just take a month of no-contact while I mourn her death before we have this nasty fight about how I’m so scary and intimidating and man-hating and that’s the source of all the problems in our relationship?
Nope.
Bold of this guy to assume that in a world of easily obtainable sex toys that he brings anything of value to a relationship.