Tingting writes like a gushing teenager about the high school jock in her diary, lost in thought. The Philippine Star publishes this mindless crap:
A man once asked me, "Do women really mean what they say?" "No, not at all," I answered. "But we want a reaction from the men to whatever we say, or not say all the time."
This is exactly why men cannot understand women like you, Mrs. Cojuangco. She continues:
My friend Joe cancelled more dates with Janina than kept them. Each time he cancelled and offered an excuse, Janina would simply say, "I understand." And Joe would tell all and sundry how understanding Janina was. Until Janina broke up with him. And Joe, poor Joe moaned, "But I thought she understood, she said so!"
Sure Janina understood... that Joe had to work late that’s why he was canceling a date.
But Janina also understood... that Joe was giving her a lot of bull.
And Joe, poor Joe, couldn’t understand that.
EXACTLY WHAT F*CKING BULL???!?!? The guy was being honest!! She was not being straightforward about disliking him working late! If she had told him that she didn't like it, he would have probably changed things. (God, am I giving relationship advice now?) The former Governor elaborates:
Contrary to perception, not all women are master communicators. The preconceived idea that all women are naggers is a myth. Actually, don’t men realize they sometimes nag more than we do? And while I’m on the subject, women are said to be notorious as gossipmongers. That’s another myth. I know for a fact that when men get together... wow, do they gossip!
WTF are you smoking, Tingting? The fact that men gossip too does not negate the idea that women gossip too. Let's see: Women gossip, men like to "talk shop". There!
But back to women as communicators ? don’t men realize that we, too, tend to repress some of our emotions? We don’t want to be branded as naggers, so we sacrifice in silence.
If we don’t always mean what we say, haven’t men figured out yet that we don’t always say what we mean either? Say for example, when wives insist, "I don’t have anything to wear." Does that mean our closets are empty? Nope. It’s only an implication. It’s either we don’t want to go to wherever men want to bring us or worse, we want money to buy something nicer and we won’t come right out and say it. Men just have to figure it out.
So, how they F*CK are we suppose to understand if you don't say what you mean and mean what you say?!?!? We just "have to figure it out"? Grow up, lady. Those games are only cute if you still are.
Learning how to communicate with women is just the tip of the iceberg and getting past this iceberg is a feat in itself. A woman is a maze of mystery. And that‘s why men haven’t figure us out, because even we haven’t figured us out.
I swear she's not smoking it. She's snorting it. I mean, it's a well-intentioned piece. But she can't write through her through her make up because it's too thick (looow). She's trying to decipher the Filipina who, unfortunately, suffers from the stereotype of being home all day with Tessie Tomas waiting alone for her man to come home from work. Tingting not only befuddles it even more, she casts a sense of hopelessness that the indifference between worker and homemaker is as, well, thick as she is.
So next time you think you can outspeak a woman, think twice. She may just be allowing you.
But then again, when she does speak, make sure you understand.
The same way you think she does the way you think she should.
Okay, can someone please explain the last line? Thanks!
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