They said it was a male so (maybe??) you can take putting on makeup off the list....... my bet is with you Mama T on the cell?

Nagging is a word created by people who aren't doing what they're supposed to do. People wouldn't need to "nag" if the other person would do what they're supposed to do in the first place.....

I think what Milspec. is trying to say is that he was the driver and he crashed because he was peeved at his wife for asking him to spend less time polishing his "gun" and more time doing household chores, such as cleaning the toilet when he leaves it in a miserable state (most mornings), or washing the dishes instead of piling them up on the counter, or stopping by the store on the way home from work when he knows damn well that they're out of milk.

I'm a guy, slegnawons. But let's talk about feminism for a moment. There are many different schools of feminist thought, but at their essence, they all boil down to removing the institutional barriers that prevent women from achieving social, economic, and political parity with men.

One of those barriers is sexism, which you have so thoughtfully demonstrated here. Thanks for that. You must be proud. Your mother, too, I'll bet.

Now, often men hold these sexist views because they look at how things used to be--when women lacked rights, when men had all sorts of extra privileges--and think that they are still entitled to the benefits their forefathers had, such as being able to force your wife into having sex (it was impossible to be criminally charged for raping a spouse until the 1970's--it still is impossible in some states), or being in complete control over the household (bringing in all the income yourself makes it awfully hard for your wife to leave you if you're a bad person), or simply being able to disregard a woman's opinion.

Of course, this really makes these men spoiled little babies who care less about women as people and more about women as pets or objects to be possessed and controlled.

And some men just have a chip on their shoulder due to bad past experiences, which is a pretty selfish attitude considering women, on the whole, have had to (and still do--how many men complain about creepy women not leaving them alone or are ever afraid of being raped?) endure a lot more [filtered word] from men than the other way around.

Thanks for illustrating a very serious issue, slegnawons. I'm sure this was your intention--to provide insight, not to be a whiny little man-child who doesn't understand what a "connotation" is and how it applies to language.

National Organization of Gals, according to Rush Limbaugh.

@Ivmykyk: I'm disappointed that you don't know what a "connotation" is, either. A "connotation" is an association we make with a word that is not part of its dictionary definition. The words "arrogant," "conceited," "pompous," and "haughty" all mean the same thing. The meanings we associate with them are not all the same. A royal wedding is "pompous" but not conceited; a student arguing with his teacher is "arrogant" but not haughty; this post is "condescending" but not pretentious; and so on. You can open up a thesaurus and compare most words with their synonyms.

In our culture, the word "nag" is associated with women. In fact, I'd venture to guess that men are ONLY referred to as nags in discussions such as this, when one side wants to think that because a dictionary definition of a word isn't innately sexist, the word must not be sexist at all.

congrats you finally got the insurance to pay for the change persistence pays off