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In case you're wondering, that hard-workin' man of yours who needs his weekend fishing trips and Vegas vacations with the boys actually spends 30 minutes a day more on leisure than you. Surprise! You're the one in dire need of a vacation.
According a new international survey, men spend more time watching TV, hanging with their buds, playing sports and pursuing hobbies than their female counterparts -- particularly in wealthy countries like Britain, France, Italy and America.
Unlike previous surveys, this one didn't take into account the ways in which women spend their leisure time differently than men, but researchers suggested that the discrepancy was due to women spending a larger portion of their free time caring for children. Hey, what's that sound? Could it be a collective teeth gnashing as women everywhere realize that in addition to all this funny business, men get paid more too?
Way to be, life-giving uterus, for dooming us to a fate of busting our chops longer and harder for even less money. AGH!
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Wednesday 10 March
By Tery
Thats nothing new.
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Wednesday 10 March
By Amanda
This is a perfect example of why I never cared to have children. Don't get me wrong, I know children are beautiful and fulfilling. But, my life STILL feels incredibly full and I have hardly had enough time to myself throughout my years of work and school (I worked while attending college & law school), managing my household, and always trying to make time for my boyfriend (now fiancé). I am always amazed how women with even more on their 'professional plates' are able to get it all done despite having full, attention/energy-requiring families.
Mothers/Wives/Professionals of the world - you are truly amazing!
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Wednesday 10 March
By Grateful Dave
My Lady is a school teacher, and a Masters student. She is much more busy than I am and has far less time to play. So I try to do what I an to give her a few extra minutes, I will drop off or pick up her cleaning, get her needed things when I shop, and fix a nice meal a couple times a week. When she does have free time she makes me a priority, and I feel like I won the LOTTERY. Funny how happy a hot bath, nice back rub, and cup of chamomille tea for HER makes ME.
Wednesday 10 March
By southocmixdown
Nonsense. If women want more free time, they should spend less countless hours yammering via phone/blackberry/email endlessly about problems that dont even involve them, to other equally non-critically-thinking-cabable women(most of which they wont even KNOW in 3 years or less), stop wasting time shopping for their 98th pair of identically ugly strappy sandals that they dont even need or wear, and learn whats important in life- your health, your family, your job, and your significant other.
Women get so roped into Mother Theresa syndrome, by showing weakness in what they deem as, 'compassion' towards needy strangers who bring nothing into their life and only drain them(which is nothing more than a way to displace their own insecurities about what theyre NOT doing in their OWN lives, their homelife, their families or significant others. THAT, is a ironic, borderline evil trait in women, which they must learn to control.
I cant even TELL you the number of times Ive seen women in their own home, blatantly ignoring the cries of their own children, so they can engage a 'life or death' phone conversation with one of their female or gay friends, about some life-altering crisis such as a bad date, salon visit, or a sale on studded belts at the local fashion outlet.
Put your heart where it MATTERS ladies, and stop trying to be a wordly socialite that twitters about what brocolli shes buying at the grocery store(as if anybody cares THAT much about your daily vapidity), to an invisible and mostly nonexistent audience, and MAYBE, just maybe, youll see an improvement in your life and your stress level. Remember, even the most glamorous of women that you so admire and emulate NOW, will at one time or another, inevitably fall from grace and have their backs turned on them by the very same people whose attention you so crave and desire> by not fusing REAL relationships in their shallow lives, with family and lovers, not trysts. (ie- Marilyn Monroe, Brittany Murphy, Judy Garland, Adrian Barbeau, living alone on an island with those stupid dogs, when she was at one time on top of the social sexy butterfly heap in hollywood).
Females, You are suffering from an addiction. Your sense of self is too unnaturally inflated. And your access to flimsy, impersonal technology is only serving as the heroin needle that will keep mainlining you to your accumulating high, before inevitable, deathly collapse. And even though YOU foolishly percieve it as a sign of strength and independence, what youre failing to realize is that your biology isnt infused with enough testosterone and adrenaline to sustain it, as it is in the male gender(and even men, ESPECIALLY men, know when to knock it the f*ck off). And youre literally KILLING yourselves through your desire for adulation and shallow ego gratification.
Wow. Come to think of it, I cant think of a more fitting way for a vapid, self-serving woman to go- engorging herself on her own pride.
At least men have the honor to play out the same scenario in a blaze of glory defending nations, sterioid-rage, single car fataliies, or pounding the crap out of someone who is literally begging for it.
Guess even the 'prettiest' things, can have fatal flaws that cheapen them to nonexistence.
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Wednesday 10 March
By diane
are you bitter??? sure sounds like it
Wednesday 10 March
By Laura
Your talking about yammering and an inflated sense of self? ROFLMAO You just shattered the walls in that glass house of yours. Best not throw any more stones. Hahahahahaha
Wednesday 10 March
By Maggie
What on earth did someone do to you to make you so bitter? We women are the ones with less leisure time, so what is your problem?
Wednesday 10 March
By yo
Dude, either you are a man or an unhappy gay !
Wednesday 10 March
By anwrose
Aaaawww, did somebody pee in your cheerios????
Bet you're single too.
Wednesday 10 March
By tamanosou
First off, southocmixdown, you're an idiot and need to not talk down to people who are clearly better than you.
Secondly, most studies show women talk less and yet use a more varied vocabulary than men.
Thirdly, neurological studies show that women use more of their brains than men.
Finally, societally women do the most and best work. There are more women than men in college even in the sciences where they face more discrimination and more violence than usual. Women are just better scientists and scholars in spite of everything.
Southocmixdown ... you suck. Please cut off your teensy dick. None of us want you and you're just wasting resources.
Wednesday 10 March
By Mike
partly you're right...no need to be so cynical, but does this study take into account the extra half hour a day that women spend getting ready?
Wednesday 10 March
By kim920
It is amazing that this article is about men having more free time and you, a male, had enough time to write a huge post, were no sources were cited to back your bias points. I am a young woman and often has to chose between sleep and school. Skipping work is not even an option. Personally, I feel neither man nor woman has the right to judge one another but outright rudeness shouldn't be tolerated from either side. Perhaps everyone should take a moment to look outside themselves and respect the issues that people have around them before making judgements. The fact that anyone had time to even take a survey surprises me. Let's all also remember that the cruelest form of discrimination is stereotypes whether it be based on gender or race. If this article said Italians had more free time than Irish people everyone would be throwing a fit - just thought a little perspective was needed here.
Wednesday 10 March
By itsjustme69
This is to you and every man who has made a comment to this story. None of you are correct and none of you have addressed the article. You all sound like women haters who are jealous of women or feel inferior to women so you must talk to them in the most degrading way possible. Not all single women are whores who have several children out of wedlock. Those kind of women stay on welfare all their lives and have all the free time in the world. None of you have any idea what is like to be a woman because you are not one, probably have never had one and your mother probably ignored you. If you all had been raised right you wouldn't be so bitter. If you did have a loving mother, do you feel the same way about her? Get over yourselves. By the way, I have never done any of the things you described women as doing. I hate to shop, I don't tweet, I don't even own a TV, I own 3 pairs of shoe - sneakers, heels and work shoes. Men have more free time because they are arrogant & lazy. Period. So women have to take up the slack and do all the hard work because you guys can't handle any of it.
Now to address the article - DUUUUHHH! Can you tell us something we DON'T KNOW?
Wednesday 10 March
By Beth
Eh, I don't buy it honestly. My man and I both have our hands full with life. He works 7 days a week and rarely gets a day to himself. I spend a ton of time with my kids and teach them everything I can. I cook, clean, and please him whenever he wants and yet, I don't feel that he gets more time than me. I think that the person who wrote this article isn't looking at the whole picture.
Wednesday 10 March
By snoel
Wow I never realized what a selfish person I was raising children single-handedly, working as a nurse and cleaning house, etc., when my spouse left us to be a non-paying sperm donor who after 9 years wanted to party. Forgive me.
Wednesday 10 March
By jedwightn
I bet you have to "choke your chicken" a lot because no self respecting woman would come within a mile of your toxic attitude. You have to pay for your attention which likely lasts 2 min., at best!
Wednesday 10 March
By KMC528
I know plenty of men who are "too busy" with some mindless crap to pay attention to their families. I'm not talking about sports, because I watch them too, but Gilligan's Island re-runs they've seen 100 times and know every word of the dialogue. Websurfing that "can't be interrupted" for a moment when his wife screams that she's injured herself. Hanging out with the guys till 4 AM instead of going home to spend time with the family, and then sleeping late and getting fired for missing work.
I know men -- not gays -- who have shopped themselves into bankruptcy. A sense of inferiority that's inflated every time some sales clerk fusses over them, showing them which tie goes with which shirt, or recommending similar books/CDs, and calling them Sir. Handing over that charge card (because there's no cash left) gives them a sense of power that they lack otherwise.
I also know men -- not gays -- who are always on the phone. Again, it gives them a feeling of power to have someone hanging on their every word. One of them pitched a fit when he realized that I was doing something else while he yammered on for hours.
Wednesday 10 March
By Mrs. Vandeetweezer
Sorry you had a "Mommy Dearest".
Women today have taken over (majority) our medical schools and law schools. "Nuff said.
Wednesday 10 March
By russ
They did not even publish the study itself, or the specifics of said study. I claim bs.
Wednesday 10 March
By jackdaball
HA;; RIGHT THE F*CK ON SOUTH OC. MXDOWN DONE CALLED OUT ALL U STUPIDAZZ B*TCHEZ &STRAIGHT PWNED ALL UR SORRY ASSES
YALL KNOW HOW U CAN TELL?? ALLS U CAN DO IS THROW BACK UR SORRY AZZ INSULTS AND START CALLING OUT THE SIZE OF HIS DICK, HIS MOTHER, WHATTHEFUKKEVER. YALL LUCKY HE AINT ME CUZ I WOULD SLAP YO WEAK AZZES BACK INTO THE LAUNDRY ROOM WITH THAT NOISE. YALL GOT NOTHING TO SAY IN REPLY. YALL KNOW IT TOO.
U ALL KNOW DAMN WELL;; THAT U DONT HAVE ANY SOLID COMBACK TO ANY OF THAT SH*T HE SAID. NOT EVEN ONE.. SO U TAKE IT TO THE DIRT. DOMINATED . FROM START TO FINISH.
BITCHEz BEST START CLEANIN UP THEIR ACTS AND STOP WASTING PLAYERS TIME WITH THEIR DROIDCELL NONSENSE AND GET BACK TO THE DAMN KITCHEN WITH THE PORKGREASE AND THE HANDRAGS, COOKIN UP FOOD FOR THE MENFOLK.
WEZ THE ONES DOIN THE WORK, YOUZ ALL JUST PLAYIN AROUND ALL DAY WITH UR DAMN TOYS AND SH*T TRYING TO ACT LIKE UR ALL IMPORTANT. WHEN I GOTO THE DOCTOR AND I SEE A WOMAN STANDING THERE WHO DOESNT HAVE A NURSES UNI ON, MY AZZ IS STRAIGHT WALKING OUT OF DAT JOINT. TELL THEM U GET MY ASS A MALE DOCTOR,
I DONT TRUST TO DAMN WIMMEN TO DO ANYTHING WITH MY BODY CEPT PLEASIN IT. YALL CANT EVEN THINK FOR YOURSELVES, MUCH LESS BE DAMN DOCTORS OR SCIENCE PEOPLE !! N*GGAH PLEEEEASE!! BETTER PUNCH URTICKET OUTTA MED SCHOOL B*TCH. AINT NOBODY WANT U CEPT ANOTHER SORRY AZZ, KNOW NOTHING WOMAN.
YOU GOT OWNED B*ITCHES. GAME OVER.