{"id":3452,"date":"2013-02-01T18:39:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T23:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2013-02-01T18:39:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T23:39:02","slug":"manfaq-friday-a-flirtquent-flyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3452","title":{"rendered":"ManFAQ Friday:  A Flirtquent Flyer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are, kicking off February with a Friday, and\u00a0it&#8217;s answer time at the <a title=\"The Once and Future ManFAQ!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?page_id=1101\" target=\"_blank\">ManFAQ<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Once again\u00a0I don my manly mantle as Sage of the Sexes, helping demystify the more malodorous gender for those of the gentler, as we add to the list of questions women have asked about men over the years.\u00a0\u00a0Actual questions, posed by real women, and answered by a REAL man.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Question:\u00a0<\/strong> <em>What makes him flirt with everyone who walks past in heels and a skirt?\u00a0 I had to tell him the last one was a drag queen, for god sake!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 There are many reasons for this; good reasons, bad reasons, new reasons, old reasons.\u00a0 Among them include the more obvious, such as &#8220;he&#8217;s an asshole,&#8221; and the more esoteric, to wit, &#8220;he&#8217;s evolved to be predisposed to spread his genetic code as far as he can,&#8221; i.e., he&#8217;s an asshole.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s dive deeper.<\/p>\n<p>When he sees a beautiful\u00a0woman, most of his neural network goes into &#8220;reset&#8221; mode.\u00a0 Those of us who process information faster tend to snap out of it in a second or two, but trust me that all of us do this.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not that he doesn&#8217;t like you, love you, or respect you &#8211; it&#8217;s not even that he thinks she&#8217;s better looking than you are.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just that for that blip of time while his brain is resetting, he&#8217;s forgotten you exist, much less that you exist in a state\u00a0of mounting irritation since you&#8217;re sitting across from him and he&#8217;s starting to drool.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s flirting because he&#8217;s wired that way &#8211; short skirt, long hair, it&#8217;s an automatic reflex.\u00a0 The problem is that he&#8217;s forgetting you&#8217;re there, watching him &#8220;innocently talking&#8221; to a 22-yr-old bombshell who probably thinks he looks like her dad.\u00a0 If you hit him hard enough, he&#8217;ll snap out of it &#8211; unless there are pheromones involved.\u00a0\u00a0 Trust me, if his subconscious thinks she smells like motherhood and apple pie, you&#8217;ve probably noticed that you need a two-by-four.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a reason some perfumes are banned in Boston, baby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So try to not beat him up too badly &#8211; remember he&#8217;s not really driving the bus, doing most of the thinking,\u00a0most of the time.\u00a0 A simple &#8220;eyes over here, buster&#8221; should usually push the reset button back where it should be.\u00a0 Also, Chanel #5 is better than a 2&#215;4 every day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Now you know.\u00a0 Please, feel free to comment!\u00a0 Also, forward any questions you\u2019d like answered to BUMD \u2013 at \u2013 biguglymandoll.com!\u00a0 As always, your anonymity is guaranteed!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sage of the Sexes, demystifying the more malodorous gender for those of the gentler.  Actual questions, posed by real women, and answered by a REAL man.  What could go wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3505,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}