Are men boring????

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Are men boring?You might think so, I couldn't possibly comment (DH sat looking over my shoulder )

Hmmm. I meet lots of boring women as well. Very boring. I may be one myself. I don't know.

put it this way, i tend to blank out when my dp speaks. but then he onloy talks when it is about cars/grand prix/ferrari and the latest pirate films he has got downloaded! he is a 16 year old trapped in a skinny mans body!

he he, I blank my dh when he talks about cars/top gear/plasma tellys.

On the whole though, I find men 100 x more interesting than sad boring tv obsessed women.

I find myself quite boring too. Is that normal?

Worth reading that load of self-obsessed misandrist Hampstead drivel to get to the readers' comments.

"They hear you mention that your dog has a hairdresser and decide you are too awful for words." Preach on, brother...

i don't know about all us men, but that woman certainly is boring. i couldn't get past the 3rd paragraph as i had lost interest at a alarming ate.

men are clueless

that article was boring. couldn't finish it

we have a mutual agreement - i listen to the boring tedium of his day - i know no-one that he talks about, i don't know the location and i sketchily know the job.

and he listens to my tedium too - talking about peoeple he doesn't know etc etc

we each realise that its nice to be heard and listened to.

so we take this time when we get home - we also teach ot children this - they each listen to the others day.

Dinner parties are by virtue of what they are - boring.

i would much rather play pool and get pissed than listen to an ad executive tell me how big his metahorical cock is.

in that environment ( dinner party) with thetype of pern that attends them regularly - its not just the men who are boring.

the women ponce it up too - for every metaphorical cock parader - there is a vagina uber suprima too.

esp if they are career mothers.

keep pouring the wine...dullsvile

It depends what you talk about. If oh-so-interesting metropolitan Sabine had been plonked next to me at a "dinner party" (why do these people always go to "dinner parties"?) and had started yakking on about something I found completely and utterly tedious (Big Brother), or something in which I have no interest beyond the purely pragmatic (shoes and shopping) or something which I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than even think about (Sex and the City), then the chances are I'd have come across as "boring".

It sounds as if these men were talking about their jobs - because she asked about them, I bet.

Now if she'd started off with me by saying "Did you think that new Ian McEwan novel was actually any good?" or "God, it'll be a relief to see the back of Bush, won't it?" or "Is David Tennant as good as Tom Baker?" or "Do you think the Lib Dems are irrelevant?" or "I wonder how many people here say they support state education but only because they live in a good catchment..."

.... then there are any number of interesting conversations we could have had.

I rarely come across truly boring men at dinner parties - it is nearly always possible to start an interesting conversation.

I do often meet tedious women who gabble at length about the nuances of their diets and how they have sinned recently. About how naughty they were sneaking off to buy some item of designer clothing they couldn't afford. Or, of course, Big Brother or whatever other reality TV fad. These women never seem to notice that my eyes have glazed over as they twitter on. I would much rather hear about their children or their work when you can at least guide the conversation into more general topics.

"...women ...are happy to divulge the downsides of their life or job, the moans, the insecurities. You bond with people when they admit their vulnerabilities."

Or you think them self absorbed and dull.

no perhaps just married men are bored with their wives and so just cant be bothered to make the effort at these droney dinner parties which i imagine are all organised by women on the basis of their friednships

single men who havent had to be skewered by this unenviable social circle and spend their leisure time doing things they choose are a lot more interesting

i havent been to a dinner party for at least 10 years thank god

My DH's friends' WAGs organise them. No doubt they think me a dreadful bore

UnquietDad - absolutely agree with your post of 8.59.