I was at a restaurant the other night, a very nice restaurant; a restaurant at which you would not expect to see a urinal with a plastic bag over it with a huge, handmade, ugly sign.\u00a0 It was like a scar on this otherwise upscale, gorgeously appointed facility.<\/p>\n
Once I got over that shock, I was blown away by the sign.\u00a0 It basically said, “Broken: Please do not use.” And then a plastic bag over it.\u00a0 Now does this strike you as strange, or is it just me?<\/p>\n
I thought, “Are men really this stupid?”\u00a0 They’ve got a plastic bag over a broken urinal, number one.\u00a0 Number two, they’ve got a sign, “It’s broken.”\u00a0 Number three, “It’s broken,” plastic bag, “Please do not use.”\u00a0 The other thing, which is not germane to this discussion, but when a urinal or any other appliance breaks in a public bathroom, why don’t they just turn off the water?\u00a0 You say, there’s no place to turn it off.\u00a0 Exactly.<\/p>\n
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But I ramble.\u00a0 This thing got me thinking again about one of my pet peeves.\u00a0 It’s what I call the “buffoonification of the American male.”\u00a0 Just look at the commercials.\u00a0 We are beer-guzzling, pizza-eating buffoons.\u00a0 We’re stupid, lazy, and slow.\u00a0 We disrespect our wives and are obsessed to the point of idol-worship with sports and things that blow up.<\/p>\n
Ok, I like sports, I like pizza, I like all that stuff.\u00a0 But the bottom line is, I am not an idiot.\u00a0 I am not stupid, so don’t treat me that way.\u00a0 And if you’re a man that has bought into this whole idea that “I’ve just gotta have sex, cause I’m a man.\u00a0 I just gotta have my way, cause I’m a man.\u00a0 I just have to buy toys I can’t afford cause I’m a man.\u00a0 I just have to show my wife who’s boss and scream at her and cuss at her cause I’m a man.”\u00a0 Then, you are stupid.<\/p>\n
A real <\/em>man takes care of his children. A real<\/em> man provides, protects, and promotes those closest to him. A real<\/em> man steps up and takes personal responsibility for his life.\u00a0 A real <\/em>man doesn’t often show up on TV.\u00a0 So be careful how you take your cues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was at a restaurant the other night, a very nice restaurant; a restaurant at which you would not expect to see a urinal with a plastic bag over it with a huge, handmade, ugly sign.\u00a0 It was like a scar on this otherwise upscale, gorgeously appointed facility. Once I got over that shock, I … Continue reading “Tell Me, Men Are Not This Stupid”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}