STRUGGLING to understand men but don’t want to actually talk to them? Patronising Guardian journalist Joanna Kramer reveals what makes them tick.
They have at least three emotions
These include anger, repression and hungry. But my studies show men are capable of exhibiting more feelings, such as toxic happiness and privileged ennui. These are deeply problematic and must be replaced with guilt immediately.
Men have very basic needs
Men like food, water and shelter, but their other needs are equally unsophisticated: beer, sport and looking at attractive women. All men are like this, so if you know a man, make him try Guardian-friendly activities such as cooking vegetarian Indian food and replace his copy of FHM with an interesting article about fourth wave feminism.
Sometimes they wrongly think they’re having a tough day
Even though they’re privileged 24/7. A quick reminder of how irrelevant his concerns are in the larger scheme of things will cheer any man up instantly, and in no time he’ll be back to doing blokey stuff like talking about cars and burying his feelings.
Sometimes they think about more than sex
Surprisingly, the desires of a cisgendered heterosexual man are not that simple. Apparently there’s more to it than just putting their penis in a vagina, and rumour has it they’ve been known to care about the physical and mental wellbeing of women. Or other men. Luckily I am here to share this ground-breaking revelation.
They’re sensitive in their own way
Men take sweeping criticisms of their gender personally for some reason. It’s one of their many inherent flaws. And as long as hacks like me can pay their mortgage by writing about them in a semi-ironic way that’s never going to change. Sorry guys.
