{"id":176521,"date":"2014-12-18T07:48:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T07:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/18\/i-hear-some-of-you-complaining-women-always-say\/"},"modified":"2014-12-18T07:48:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T07:48:05","slug":"i-hear-some-of-you-complaining-women-always-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/18\/i-hear-some-of-you-complaining-women-always-say\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I hear some of you complaining \u201cwomen always say they want a nice guy.\u201d I know lots of women \u2014 I\u2019m even related to a few \u2014 and I can\u2019t say I\u2019ve ever heard any of them say that. I can\u2019t prove it, but this sounds like one of those things stand-up comedians say about women and everyone else just repeats. I\u2019ve also never known a woman who cries when she breaks a nail \u2014 although I\u2019ve known a few who swear like a 15-year-old sailor in jail \u2014 and I\u2019ve never had a woman ask me if her outfit made her look fat unless she actually wanted and subsequently appreciated my opinion. So either I\u2019ve stumbled upon a secret trove of women who aren\u2019t passive-aggressive sob machines, or you need to stop mistaking Dane Cook routines for peer-reviewed sociological studies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><strong>Lore Sj\u00f6berg<\/strong> |\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2013\/01\/alt-text-nice-guy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alt Text: Taking Another Look at the Myth of the \u2018Nice Guy\u2019<\/a>\u00a0| <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/aconybell.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">x<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thewaltzingdead.co.vu\/\" target=\"_blank\">thewaltzingdead<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear some of you complaining \u201cwomen always say they want a nice guy.\u201d I know lots of women \u2014 I\u2019m even related to a few \u2014 and I can\u2019t say I\u2019ve ever heard any of them say that. I can\u2019t prove it, but this sounds like one of those things stand-up comedians say about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/18\/i-hear-some-of-you-complaining-women-always-say\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[208,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}