18 things to teach your sons about women

I have a few things to say about this article.

1. Pick your battles. - This is just dumb. Everyone should learn this skill, and it has nothing to do with gender relations. It is a life skill.

2. Walk on the outside (closer to the street) of your female companion. - What kind of outdated crap is this? Women don't need escorts, so why should it matter how a couple walks down the street?

4. Cooking, cleaning, and taking care of kids are things men can actually do as well as women. - Absolutely! Your wife / girlfriend / partner is not an unpaid maid or babysitter. She is an equal, which means the lazy men need to get off the couch and help out.

5. Keep backup supplies of quality chocolate in the house for her to raid. - For what, a drought or famine? She is just as capable of keeping and maintaining a stash as anyone else.

7. Women like compliments and gifts. - So do men. There is nothing different here.

9. Be on time, even if she usually isn't. - Can you say double standard? I knew you could! She is just as capable of keeping track of time as you. Granted, some women have more preparation time than others, so that can be factored into the planning. A man cannot be expected to be ontime if a woman isn't expected to do the same.

11. Find out what her favorite flower is. - And she should learn the things you love too. Afterall, she isn't the only one in the relationship.

13. Smiling and nodding aren't the same as listening. - Unless the man is enduring a PMS rant, in which case it is better to smile and nod than to voice your opinion.

16. At some point she'll be more important than your mother. - Only if she is jealous of your mother, or visa versa. Either way, you are in for trouble. RUN LIKE HELL!

18. Oh yeah, and no woman will ever be good enough for my baby! - Did you know, if you take the letters from "MOTHER IN LAW", you can rearrange them to spell "WOMAN HITLER"? Perhaps mothers need to stop this insanity. You either respect your child's choices or you don't. If you don't, there can be only two reasons for this: 1. You were a bad parent. 2. You are a control freak. Either way, your child is destined to learn things the hard way.

The only times men have to treat women differently is when it comes to specifically feminine things (PMS, periods, child birth, and some small emotional differences). I believe every other difference is based entirely on the fact that some women are raised thinking they are the "weaker sex", which I find to be outdated and sexist.

At least, that is how I see things...