Dinner, and my brother does the manly thing:
Dinner, and my brother does the manly thing:
1) What mom ordered isn't quite right on its first appearance so as she is explaining to the server, my brother talks over her to explain what she wants to the server. My mom did say it's enough if one person explains and he stopped, but if he'd done that to me the least he would have gotten is a "Thank you for telling the server what I wanted. I had no idea."
2) Mom is packing up her leftovers and my brother asks if she'd like him to close the takeout container so she doesn't ruin her nails. Like, a) she'd already have potentially damaged them by, oh, I don't know, using her hands, and b) ruin her nails?! from a takeout container?! Dude! This is not chivalry! It's I'm going to slap you if you don't - shut- up! Oh, wait, that's me.
He thinks he's being nice, and gentlemanly, and appropriate. * walks off, sputtering incoherently and randomly waving arms like a crazy person *
1) What mom ordered isn't quite right on its first appearance so as she is explaining to the server, my brother talks over her to explain what she wants to the server. My mom did say it's enough if one person explains and he stopped, but if he'd done that to me the least he would have gotten is a "Thank you for telling the server what I wanted. I had no idea."
2) Mom is packing up her leftovers and my brother asks if she'd like him to close the takeout container so she doesn't ruin her nails. Like, a) she'd already have potentially damaged them by, oh, I don't know, using her hands, and b) ruin her nails?! from a takeout container?! Dude! This is not chivalry! It's I'm going to slap you if you don't - shut- up! Oh, wait, that's me.
He thinks he's being nice, and gentlemanly, and appropriate. * walks off, sputtering incoherently and randomly waving arms like a crazy person *
Meanwhile, I clearly do not have Hilary Clinton's training, because impulses of punching are strong with this one.
ReplyDeleteI don't mean she taught him that was the right way for men specifically to act - but it doesn't seem improbable that he could have picked up the idea that "taking over and doing things for people whether they want you to or not" is one of the standard ways to show affection, gender notwithstanding.
ReplyDeleteAh! Yep. CONTROL, MASTERY, I PROTECT U. That would be the one. You are on point, ma'am.
ReplyDeleteHe's still a mansplaining bro. Wanna hear about how he explained a football game to my dad? Who played in high school, fwiw. No, see, this is how a penalty works, and this is what the officials do, and that's what the player did, and see that's what the officials are doing, etc. NO JOKING. IT'S NOT FUNNY. I believe this is where our mutual friend might say, "Oy".