Male’s bad habits based on an individual’s perception
Girls rule and boys drool. Even though drooling wasn’t one of the bad habits freshmen Amber Hartley and Whitley Dahle relayed, they had no trouble compiling a lengthy list of things guys do that bug them.
“I can’t stand it when guys leave the toilet seat up,” Hartley said.
Yance Bosen, senior majoring in ag business, said his mom would get mad if him and his brothers left the toilet seat up. “I never do,” Bosen said. “It’s just how I was raised.” TJ Zeller, senior majoring in sociology said, “Why would we put it down for girls? Why don’t girls put it up for us?”
Dahle complained guys tell stupid jokes and think they are funny all the time. Senior Levi Baker responded by saying, “Guys have more self confidence and don’t get as insecure, so they are better able to laugh at themselves and their own stupid jokes. Dumb jokes are dumb jokes, and girls tell them too and everybody laughs.” Zeller said guys always laugh at their own jokes because they are “always funny.”
Dahle: “Why do they write in all caps?”
Zeller said it depends on his mood or level of importance if he writes in capital letters or not
Baker: “I know a few girls that switch between lower-case and capital letters indiscriminately.” Not being able to write legibly is a point of annoyance for Hartley. She said she can’t even read her own dad’s “chicken scratches.”
Baker: “Guys have bad handwriting because they didn’t spend all of elementary school writing notes to their friends. We would rather just talk with them face to face.” Bosen: “My writing hand was in a cast for a year and a half, so I just lack the manual dexterity to have good penmanship.” Dahle said she hates that guys seem to be able to just roll out of bed and go to class when girls spend a lot more time on their appearance.
Baker said, in defense of his gender, said his prep time is just shorter.
Zeller: “Guys don’t care what they look like. One of the guys in my fraternity (Sigma Chi) takes longer to get ready than most girls do.”
Another bad habit that bothers Dahle, she said, is boys not cleaning up after themselves. She said she sometimes will do her boyfriend’s dishes when she goes over to his apartment because he usually doesn’t. Baker said he has his untidy habits but said it depends more on upbringing than gender.
As Zeller folded clean clothes in his room, he said, “I am a pretty neat and organized guy. This is about as messy as my room ever gets.” Hartley said she doesn’t like guys who can’t admit when they are wrong, such as not asking for directions. Baker said he blames it on social requirements of the sexes.
“That is what makes us guys is trying to figure things out and working through problems,” Baker said. “We try not to show weakness because we’d rather handle it ourselves. If we don’t, we never develop into men.”
Bosen said, “I’m never wrong so I have nothing to admit to, and even if I did, I wouldn’t ask a girl for help.”
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