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| Thursday, December 8, 2005 07:22 PM |
| Yet another silly, sexist list |
| by poppy |
So I'm cruising MSN, looking for some hot hot hot celebrity gossip, and I see a link for "Romantic Holiday Activities." As some of you are aware, I have been getting some unsolicited advice about how to spice up my holiday season. I would like to say, before I go any further, that I feel my relationship is plenty spicy as it is, and that my partner and I are not yet in need of gimmicks. But nobody wants to hear about that, so, moving on: I was wondering if, perhaps, some of the unsolicited advice made it onto the msn list. So I looked. And hung my head at the first suggestion:
1. Serve your man a steaming cup of hot chocolate
Excuse me? I thought this was a list of romantic suggestions for couples? I should know by now that that translates to "romantic suggestions for women to entice men who really couldn't care less." Moving on.
11. Bake your husband's favorite Christmas cookies
Come on now. There's nothing sexy about baking, and there's certainly nothing sexy about asking him to be "chief cookie-tester." Unless... moving on.
15. Play secret Santa and leave each other little gifts
This is fine right up until the description: "in unexpected places like a briefcase, the car, or on his pillow." Oh, F you. What about my freakin pillow. And hey, I like hot chocolate and cookies, too! Hey, screw you Feanor, make your own freakin' cookies!
Ahem. I'm sorry Feanor. It's not your fault that I subject myself to such vapidness.
The whole thing is just too silly. For some of them the romance aspect is a bit too much of a reach for me (hang some mistletoe in a soup kitchen perhaps?), but for others, if you have to be told to go do them, you're probably not going to have a good time. Forced creativity anyone? And, not too surprisingly, my received unsolicited advice did not make the list... though after reading that, it doesn't sound so bad after all...
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