{"id":875,"date":"2010-11-12T11:37:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T15:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=875"},"modified":"2010-11-12T11:37:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T15:37:49","slug":"manfaq-friday-it%e2%80%99s-that-time-of-month-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"ManFAQ Friday: It\u2019s That Time Of Month, Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, and that means answer time! For those of you who have commented with questions from previous ManFAQs, thank you. I&#8217;m adding yours to the list of questions women have asked about men over the years, and I will answer them all in turn &#8211; to continue to demystify the more malodorous gender for those of the gentler.\u00a0 Actual questions, posed by real women, and answered by a REAL man. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong>\u00a0 <em>Why do men always assume it&#8217;s that time of the month?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Statistically speaking, he&#8217;s got a one in four shot at being right, and since most men will put entire paychecks down on odds worse than that, of course it&#8217;s a go-to line.\u00a0 Second, it gives them the chance to blame something other than ourselves for you being angry &#8211; after all, thinks, he couldn&#8217;t possibly have done anything to piss you off that badly, right?\u00a0 If he can rationalize your mood by calling it something else, then he doesn&#8217;t have to change his behavior, which would probably involve getting his own beer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He could also just be projecting &#8211; as we know, <a title=\"PMS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=560\" target=\"_self\">we have our own version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s also that element of flirting with danger &#8211; if he assumes it&#8217;s that time of the month, and he&#8217;s right, and he mentions it, he knows there&#8217;s a decent chance you&#8217;ll come over there and snap his neck like the weasel he is.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an <a title=\"Adrenaline Junkies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=456\" target=\"_self\">adrenaline thing<\/a>, although it&#8217;s not usually an inherited trait &#8211; a lot of those genes don&#8217;t get passed on, if you catch my drift.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now you know. Please, feel free to comment with any questions <strong>you&#8217;d<\/strong> like answered!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actual questions, posed by real women, and answered by a REAL man. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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\/875"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}