Aha! Guys learn all that obscure macho stuff by osmosis!
I admit it. I didn’t know this. Since I’m just a Y-deficient blogger, though, I had to check with Dear Husband. And it turns out she’s right!
DH confirms that he did not actually read the 200+ military books in his library. Rather, he placed them under his pillow at night. It’s a slow process, he says, but relatively painless as long as he doesn’t try to absorb more than one or two at a time.
I wonder, though, whether he couldn’t have just kinda stood around near some other guys who already knew this stuff, and just absorbed it all that way? Also — do you think beer-swilling helps the process or hurts?
Best of all (for me) — Dana Perino’s enlightened input explains the single biggest shock I had after I married DH: that all men are not actually born with the ability to work on cars. Now that I understand the process, though, maybe I’ll just buy him some books and he can sleep on it.
Men have the same puzzlement over how women know the difference between the alleged colors “eggshell” and “off white,” or “taupe” and “beige,” or identifying a slingback vs a sandal. Obviously estrogen plays a huge role in color recognition and footwear expertise.
Oh! You mean…. you fell for that???? LOL!!! I thought you guys had caught onto us after all this time.
Beer-swilling definitely helps. As does
looking at pictures of nekkid femalesreading the articles in Playboy.~EdT.