yin: “I have to admit, I just don’t get the appeal of watching a bunch of middle-aged men in polo shirts and sweater vests fretting over how many shots it takes them to get a little white ball into a hole in the ground. And yet you guys seem mesmerized by it.â€Â
yang: “Well, it’s simple, really. It’s because men are from Mars, and women are from the planet of ‘I really should learn to mind my own freakin’ business, because then I wouldn’t always be interrupting the Masters coverage with observations that are better left tucked inside my pretty little skull while I’m off getting my husband a nice roastbeef sandwich and some salt and vinegar potato chips’.â€Â
Yum! Horseradish or no horseradish?
oh, THAT planet.
Your fantasy writings are so “out there,” Jeff. I had a dream like that once, though.
Is it true that GOLF stands for “Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden”?
No, GOLF is FLOG spelled backwards.
All the other four-letter words were in use, y’see…
BEST POST EV-FRICKEN-ER!!
Glad we invited Hideto Tanihara so he could fire a smooth 85. Good to have you Hidey!
A friend of mine told me her husband bought a big Calloway driver and told her if she could learn to hit with it he’d give it to her. She said he didn’t mean the driver. That frankly is about the only way to make women love golf.
I’m pretty sure my wife would tee me up in an eyeblink.
Guys walks into the lockeroom at the local links.
Says to his buddy, “Hey, I just got a new set of clubs for my wife.” His buddy says, “Great trade!”
Wouldn’t it be more satisfying if you drove the beer cart, honey?
Uh oh. Yang could be in some serious trouble!
Hmmm…
Tell it to Charles Johnson, or that Goldstein fella.
No, men they’re called homos…by tolerant, liberal progressives.
Or sissified hausfraus whose SONS are going to grow up to be homos. By tolerant, liberal progressives.
That being said, I like Jill, for all her misguided positions. And I think the shit she was subjected to was way out of line.
Golf was invented by Scots who decided that Calvinism, scratching a living herding sheep over land the Irish wouldn’t take, heavy drinking, and lousy weather, wasn’t near enough to make a man properly dour and gloomy and violent.
An ice cold bottle of suds to go along with that sandwich too, if you don’t mind?
“Women should only be allowed to play golf twice a year: Super Bowl Sunday and Christmas day”.
Mikey, get real. What land wouldn’t the Irish take? Why, they’d take feckin’ Israel if it were offered.
Yang ain’t gettin any tonight, or in the near future for that matter.
my dad is mesmerized to the point of snoring. then again, most Sundays, my parents are out on the golf course.
I haven’t kept up with golf since most of the players i was familiar with have gone on to the senior tour. (my first job was as a gofer in the office for the 94 PGA championship)
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Anyway, Dan, the Scots landed in Northern Ireland, both have serious beer-goggling issues, and the Irish never took John o’ Groats.
Craggy Island is another issue.
Crud! It’s a blizzard here in Michigan, and flowers were out last weekend! Why does Al Gore hate flowers?
Duuuuudddeee!
Without question. But does it automatically trump the shit you’ve been subjected to, by virtue of her femininity? Was she especially victimized by virtue of her womanhood?
Yeah, the specifics of the attacks are different for a woman than for a man. But that’s only because the attackers are trying to push your buttons and gender dictates which buttons are most effectively pushed. Life can be tough on the intertubes, for both sexes.
But it’s not just famous women who get no end of crap thrown at them. Every woman I know who has tried to simply comment on a blog has received some kind of harassment from guys who don’t like women and don’t want them in their territory. They weren’t responding logically to opinions they disagreed with; they were spewing venom at a name they could identify as female.
The writers of blogs, male or female, have to expect some degree of annoyance once they have put themselves out there. (Not that the crap that any of these in this discussion have been subjected to is in any way explainable or justifiable.) But everyday people who just want to express themselves in a comment occasionally ought to be able to do so without being jumped for the mere gender of their nickname.
Most of the women I know who visit blogs no longer use female names. One of them told me that she feels it would be easier to be a liberal than a woman at another conservative blog where the lifestyle encourages this sort of thing. Now that’s a sad comment.
wife17 Does this thing have a sense of humor?
What blogs are these where that sort of behavior is tolerated, let alone encouraged? I can’t say I’m familiar with any of them.