I've got single friends of both sexes, aging from 20-somethings to 50-somethings. When it comes to Relationships and What's Wrong With Relationships, despite the age differences, women seem to agree with each other on the same things, just as men tend to agree on the same things.
What are those things?
Generally the women wish men would be more like Men, and take charge when it's time to Take Charge. Women say they want a man who's not indecisive, who's not a little boy waiting to grow up and who doesn't need to be "Mommied" 24x7. They want a man with some Spine.
Men tend to agree with each other, too. But men grumble that "What's wrong with women is they're too bossy and trying too hard to
prove they're men."
Well then. How can we make sense of that?
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When men stopped being Men (and started buying pedicures and hair products instead of power tools and socket sets), the relationships' loss of a Man created a Role Vacuum. Who else was around to step in and fill the vacancy created by the Man's departure, but the woman?
When the home team's trailing 2-0 in the bottom of the 9th with two outs and runners on first and second, the batter's wife isn't hoping for a short pop fly to center.
And she definitely isn't hoping he'll be the last out with three called strikes so she can listen to him whine for the rest of the season about how unfair the umpire is.Women need to know that when their man's at the plate, he's ready to blast the next pitch over the left field bleachers' roof.
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Men should stop wasting their time in the Minor Leagues and commit to rejoining the Majors.
I'm not talking about men subordinating or browbeating women according to their whims. I'm not talking about the Man being superior, the boss, the woman's new father or the man being the Final Authority On Everything. I'm talking about Men becoming co-equals again. With boldness. With Spine and with Love.
I'm saying men need to quit pacing back and forth in the dugout, wondering what's wrong with their game. Men ought to stop expecting women to be interested in hearing for the 100th time about what went wrong the last time they struck out at the plate.
I'm saying men need to quit retying their shoe laces, stop scratching and stop taking practice swings in the on deck circle. If you're wearing the uniform and you've got a bat, step up to the plate and face down the pitcher.
Does that sound hard?
It's gotta be even harder hitting Home Runs from the dugout.
