{"id":3574,"date":"2013-03-15T22:05:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T03:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2013-03-15T22:07:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T03:07:07","slug":"manfaq-friday-houseman-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3574","title":{"rendered":"ManFAQ Friday: Houseman Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here we are on the Ides of March, and\u00a0it’s answer time at the 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.<\/p>\n

Like Caesar said, “What could go wrong?”<\/p>\n

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Question:\u00a0<\/strong> Why does the maintenance guy assume you do the maintenance around the house? \u00a0“You might want to tell your husband to put the date on the new filters.”\u00a0 My husband wouldn’t know what the HVAC filter looked like if I broke it over his head – why is it automatically assumed that he changes it<\/em>?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Answer:\u00a0<\/strong> As much as I want to say, “Oh, no, he did NOT?” and do the whole\u00a0neckrole thing like my friend Angie taught me, I can’t –\u00a0not just because I’m whiter than chalk, but because it wouldn’t be credible.\u00a0 Of course<\/strong> the maintenance dude assumes the man around the house is doing the dirty, manly jobs that require strength and technical know how.\u00a0 After all, he’s<\/strong> there doing those things, and he’s a man.\u00a0 He just doesn’t realize that you’re the one holding the remote in your relationship, or that the track lighting wasn’t your idea.<\/p>\n

Is there any end to these bitter questions of gender stereotyping?\u00a0 I sure hope not, or the ManFAQ would be out of a job.\u00a0 But in the meantime, let’s examine the motives of the maintenance dude.\u00a0 He’s there with you.\u00a0 We’ll assume you have a pulse, so it’s a safe bet that he’s already thought about what you’d be like in bed.\u00a0\u00a0In\u00a0assuming out loud\u00a0that it’s your husband who would be changing the air filters, he’s obliquely asked you if you have<\/strong> a husband.<\/p>\n

Not to assume too much creepiness on the part of our probably innocent maintenance dude, but your safest answer is, “Oh, you can probably tell him yourself, he should be home any minute.”\u00a0 Another good answer might be, “I would, but I shot the son of a bitch last year, and serve him right, too.”\u00a0 I’m just saying, is all.<\/p>\n

But it’s true, regardless of intent, most guys assume it’s the guy who’ll be servicing the equipment.\u00a0 If you know what I mean.\u00a0 He probably means it as a compliment – he can’t imagine you demeaning yourself to do something so base and low like changing that filter.\u00a0 You’re a domestic goddess in his eyes, charged only with writing his check and fueling his equipment-servicing fantasies later that evening.<\/p>\n

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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

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Why does the maintenance guy assume you do the maintenance around the house? 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\/3574"}],"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=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3597,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions\/3597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}