Most men are smart enough not to answer question such as these, “Does this make my butt look big?”, or “Should I get my hair colored?” etc. Dutiful husbands and boyfriends have learned either never to give a concrete answer to such a question. You must avoid the straight answer, figure out what response she wants to hear, give said response, and affirm that the response she was looking for is the right choice. It’s not always easy to determine the proper response, but with a little practice most men get the hang of it
The ACME Guide To Women
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Kevin
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Oh to have to be in such a situation. Getting set up by women’s word games in exchange for their companionship: that’s a price I’d bear.
Signed,
Your lonely little weblogger.
🙁
In my best Foghorn Leghorn voice I can only say:
I say. . .there’s a bullet in every chamber, son!
(Wisely, my hubby now says that whenever I ask a stupid boobs/hair/ass question.)
Counter-tactic: the ancient twist of answering the question with another question:
“Why do you ask, dear? Are you unhappy with your boobs/hair/ass?”
Never give a direct answer to a loaded question with a double-bind lurking behind it.
If I ask how do I look I want the truth..If something is unflattering on me I want to be told so I can wear something else. If I am told you look fine it really means I don’t care in my book.
I have said it over and over don’t ask me how you look cause I will say exactly what I think.
I have amassed a vast vocabulary of grunts for all the times my wife asks me about my feelings, and I’ve gone so far as to tell her that asking a man about his feelings is banned by the Geneva Convention.
So she doesn’t try very hard in the category of “does this make my butt look fat?”. Suits me.
“Does this dress make my butt look fat?”
“No, dear, it merely accentuates the fact that it is.”