Tag: battle-of-the-sexes

I’m surprised no one has written about this yet, but CNN is highlighting a survey that is sure to show up on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. According to a survey done by Harris Interactive for Intel, 46% of the women questioned said they’d be willing to forgo sex for two weeks, rather than give up their Internet access. Men? Only 30% of the men surveyed were willing to do likewise. The gap grew even wider for both men and woman who were 18 to 34 years old. For woman, the percentage of those willing to skip sex for the web rose to 49%, while it climbed to 39% for men. For women 35 to 44 years old, the figure jumped to 52%.

So, what about you? What’s more important: your net access, or sex (and no saying your net access simply because it allows you to get to your online pron).

(I know I had nothing to say. Things change)

While reading the newspapers during lunch, I ran across an extremely interesting article in the Orange County Register about how women prefer men’s razors for shaving their legs.^* According to Gillette, 28% of women say they prefer a man’s razor to anything made for a woman. The article notes that razor companies have tried to create a market for the woman’s razor by introducing colorful, newfangled designs – rubberized shower grips, built-in shaving cream and a fat handle. But these women refuse to be fooled by pretty colors and styles, believing that if men’s razors were made to slice through thick beard hair, then they should work even better on fine leg hair. Is there a real difference? According to Gillette, the blades in the Venus and the Mach3 are exactly the same; in fact, all Gillette razors have the same blades. The only difference is the handle: The Venus is lightweight and rubberized to give women a better grip in the shower, while the Mach3 is made of metal. The Venus also offers two strips of lubricant while the Mach3 has only one. What do I think? I harbor no opinion, as my wife uses other methods, and any other observations are purely visual.

The article has some interesting, and potentially inflamatory, statements:

• It states that like the man’s dress shirt, the man’s razor has become a vivid example of the fundamental difference between the sexes, noting that a woman can co-opt manly things while men have no choice but to helplessly watch their stuff disappear from closets and drawers.
• The Gillette spokeswomen is reported as suggesting in the article that “perhaps women who preferred the Mach3 had tomboy qualities that made them less interested in grooming”, positing that they also wore less makup. However, the article noted that the opposite were true: women who prefer the Mach3 are more obsessed with having smooth, touchable legs than the average woman.

So, for the women reading this: What guy-targeted stuff do you prefer?
For the men: What girl-targeted stuff do you prefer?

According to Reuters, marriage keeps you healthy, even though it can make men fat. The article cites a government report, which notes that married people are less likely to smoke, drink heavily or be physically inactive. They are less likely than singles, divorcees or widowed adults to be in fair or poor health, and are less likely to suffer from headaches or serious psychological distress. However, married men are more likely to be overweight or obese than other men (never-married adults were among the least likely to be overweight or obese). They don’t know why the results show this.

Hmmm. For me, the weight gain is due to stress (not from the marriage itself, but sometimes, from the offspring of the marriage :-)). The major impact of marriage is that taking care of one’s children often creates less time to take care of oneself. Perhaps that’s the reason.

However, whatever the reason, I need to do something about it. So, I’ll ask a third time: How does one go about finding a decent, not-to-expensive personal trainer to teach me how to exercise right at home? Craigslist? Something else? I’ve already asked my chiropractor for a recommendation.

I’m not that overweight (about 35 lbs from where I would like to be), but I think the muscle weakness is a contributing factor to my bad posture, which is a contributing factor to the tingling in my arm that is annoying me to hell!