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Guyism (their catchphrase is “What Guys Need”) recently posted “7 Reasons to Get Involved with a Crazy Woman.” I don’t know about y’all, but I personally found it insulting on pretty much every level.
1. Life will go from ho-hum to yee-haw.
You’re not going to sit on your duff and watch TV when you’re involved with a chick who’s cuckoo for cocoa puffs. No dull dinner-and-a-movie dates for her, nosiree. She’s more likely to suggest sky-diving, piercing naughty body parts, or starting the day off with a shot or two of Jameson—in which case there’s no telling what you’ll end the day.
I resent the implication that “sane” women sit on their asses watching TV. I know a lot of really cool, normal, uncrazy women who have tattoos or piercings and enjoy activities like rock climbing or skydiving (and I’m not above a little Bacardi 151 myself).
2. You will have great stories to tell.
Whether you have a blog, a budding fiction career, or just a penchant for telling tales at the bar, a crazy girlfriend will provide you plenty of raw material. Pretty soon, all you’ll have to do is preface a story with “One time, when I was dating Shawna…” and your audience will be scooting their chairs a little closer. The only risk? Being accused of fabricating her outlandish antics.
When dating someone, of course you’re going to think your stories of hiking in the woods are great. I jumped off a moving train once (don’t ask), every guy I’ve dated since then is aware of it, and they don’t say, “Oh my God, Katie jumped off a moving train this one time.”
3. The gift that keeps on giving.
Loony girls are not known for their ability to let go, so the fun will continue even after you break things off. Let’s just hope that her legacy is flattering—say, being stalked for a few weeks—rather than one that burns, itches or requires expensive ointment.
Wow … that sounds terrific!
4. New experiences, edible and otherwise.
Say sayonara to Taco Bell and Stouffer’s, since your mad-hatter mama is more likely to favor exotic taste sensations. Roasted bat? Prairie oysters? Deep-fried crickets? Goose-blood soup? If someone out there can cut it up or cook it, she’ll eat it. As long as you have a strong stomach—and you don’t own a pet bunny—you’ll have a ball.
My ex-husband has eaten everything from alligator to ostrich. Oh, and Spam. He also has a calculator collection and wears a pocket protector. There’s no correlation between being eccentric and eating weird shit. And does goose-blood soup even exist?
5. She’s the belle of any ball.
Face it—every good party has a wild woman at its center. She might be doing commando keg-stands; she could be stripping on the kitchen counter. She will almost certainly make out with at least one other woman. Going home with this girl earns you major bragging rights.
Yeah, any girl who will do keg stands sans underwear is definitely a given notch in your belt. Idiot!
6. All subsequent girlfriends will seem refreshingly sane.
Dating a psycho will put the peccadillos of any other woman in perspective. Noisy eaters, gossipers, snoopers, tailgaters, girls whose hair clogs up your shower drain—they all pale in comparison. And think of all the money you’ll save not having to post bail every week.
Uh … all dating partners have flaws. And maybe it’s me, but the next person you’re dating always seems refreshing, otherwise you never would have broken up in the first place.
7. The sexcapades.
Insane in the membrane equals fantastic in the sack. Crazy girls will try anything twice, and can often be talked into a third time. Whatever fantasy you’ve been harboring—a three-way, toys, S&M, page 229 of the Kama Sutra—your lunatic lover will gladly give it a whirl. This makes having your very own girl gone wild worth the rest of the ride.
Uh … this is bullshit. It’s often the girls (and guys) you’d least expect to be wild that are all Kama Sutra and ménage à trois. You can’t judge someone’s sexual prowess by their outward demeanor. It’s crap.
Most shocking? The article was posted by a woman, Nicole Lehner Shein. I was kind of hoping it was tongue in cheek but, after looking with distaste through the site’s content, this was clearly not the case.
Thoughts?
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These guys are idiots. And they get what they deserve when they try and take advantage of unstable women. Some of the behaviors discussed in the article sound like they’re taken out of the DSM-V for bipolar disorder. And being bipolar, I know that there have been times in my life when I was the crazy woman. But the downside is so unpretty and unfun. So, like I said, they deserve whatever they get for capitalizing on that situation.
I love me some crazy bitches,bull fights on acid,bring it on!
Boo-yaa!
kinda sad that another woman wrote this piece of fluff…but i guess some myths will never go away.
i don’t know if these rules hold true for “crazy” men…but let me tell you dating them wasn’t fun. be it trying to lighten the mood of a sullen “writer/philosopher”, or convince “mr. mad” that the boy in the corner younger than my brother is not trying to take me home, i’ll pass.
granted – number 7 was true…but honestly i like to think that i’m bringing my “a-game” as well and definitely contribute my fair share.
harley quinn!
I still think it’s tongue in cheek. Here is my evidence: 1) a crazy woman does not know she is crazy (believe me…I’ve had friends for whom I’ve had to make clear the logic behind their actions was missing a few crucial steps). 2) A crazy woman would not advocate dating other crazy women because all crazy women have one thing in common: JEALOUSY to a ridiculous point. 3) A woman wrote this…therefore she is not a crazy woman.
I’ve often had to warn my guy friends not to date a girl because she’s crazy…and they see it as “exciting.” I think this is one of those things that men (or women who love women) need to learn the hard way in order to get it out of their system if they for some reason find themselves attracted to it.
I can totally see myself writing something like this and having the entire thing be a big eye roll. I was laughing anyway. =)
Um, thanks for taking that all the way to the other side and stereotyping all crazy women in a negative way. I thought the stereotyping was what we were condemning?
Crazy covers so much territory you might as well be trying to generalize all business majors. Jealousy is not a common point at all.
And just because the people you noticed as crazy had some things in common doesn’t mean that there aren’t the ones who are very normal seeming because we’ve worked hard to get it together. Those who haven’t shouldn’t be faulted much either–there isn’t exactly a proper safety net for mental illness in this country.
The problem I have with this article is that it presents crazy people as a cool “trip” to go on (with the assumption it will be short-lived), taking advantage of their unstable periods instead of seeing them as real people that might need a support now and then. This isn’t a zoo, people.
I don’t totally disagree with what you’re saying, thereyago, but I have to agree with smartiepops that “crazy” women do have the whole jealousy thing in common. At least the majority of the “crazy” women that I’ve ever met. Definitely, definitely.
But I’m saying–how do you define crazy? There’s depression, schizophrenia, ocd, anxiety disorders, personality disorders and literally hundreds more. Just because the ones you’ve noticed are, doesn’t speak for the literally millions of us in the world. Maybe the ones that weren’t super jealous just didn’t catch your attention as being crazy. You could do the same thing to justify a racial stereotype.
That said, I think that the “jealousy”, which is a pretty universal and evolutionary emotion, might stem from some unstable women not wanting one more thing to worry about when they can’t even rely on their own heads to be predictable. But the same thing can be true of anyone going through a stressful time in their lives, not just crazy ones. People react to stress in different ways based on their personalities, and mental illness is just another stressor.
I had a friend who was a paranoid dyslectic,he was always afraid he was following someone.
Wow I never even took it to mean mentally ill. And I’m pretty sure that’s not what the title or blog was about. I simply meant women who have decidedly different takes on what it means to be in a relationship. For some it means creating a support network and a partnership with someone else. For others, it creates a constant questioning of the other person’s motives and out of control imaginings as to what the other person is doing if not in her presence (or thinking while they ARE in her presence). This more has to do with bad experiences with fathers, brothers, mothers, exes, whatever….someone seriously f*cked them over and it’s skewed their thought process completely. Doesn’t have to be something that has a label in the DSM-V. Just some apprehension that someone actually wants to be with them for all the right reasons.
I’m pretty sure the website is complete bullshit. It’s worse than Cosmopolitan. But less ads.
I think “ya’ll” are over reacting. She was just trying to have some humor and make joke at some more eccentric people. Does she even say other woman don’t do that? No, she just talks about crazy ventures and rolls them into one crazy person that someone would date, listing the “pros.” Perhaps satire would be a good subject to read up on.
I’m sorry, this crap was supposed to be satire? Perhaps it should have come with a label: Warning! This is an attempt at satire by someone who has a poorer comprehension of satire than a duck.
“Candide” is a satire. This is just stupid.
I agree with Erin completely, especially the part about the duck. It wasn’t written for an audience that would go for satire on this matter.
Definitely not satire–look at the website … I only wish it was.
I was at a party once and a “perfect girlfriend” type (styled hair, impeccably dressed, nails done, guarantee she has seen every Sandra Bullock movie…in other words, not a “crazy” as described above) was there discussing her ex-boyfriend. Apparently she took an exacto knife and excised him from all photographs and burned them. Yeah, that’s perfectly sane. However, I’m guessing the readership of “Guyism” is of the douchey frat boy variety, so I figure they’ll couple off with the “sane” girls akin to the one above and leave us eccentrics to our healthy relationships. They’ll think we’re crazy, but…whatever.
Oh, and yes there is goose blood soup. It was served to me at a dinner in China. Yeah, didn’t eat it.
Hey, that seems like a reasonable way to get your frustration out on something tangible without doing bodily harm. Good for her.
I suspect that people looking for ‘a notch in their belt’ are interested in a very different sort of person than those of us interested in relationships.
Therefore, all normal assumptions are off.
….I’m kind of inclined to think that this was a sort of tongue-in-cheek thing, especially if it was written by a woman: “…Right. Y’all are dismissing these awesome women as ‘crazy’ just because they don’t fit this specific mold you have for what women are ’supposed to act like’? Let me clue all y’all in on just what it is you’re missing….”
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I think that Nicole is this particular brand of crazy and has written an article trying to justify herself and her ‘isms to the moronic men that follow this site.
It is possible to date someone that’s really super fun without all the psychotic behaviour that she seems to think it comes parcelled with….alternatively, there are actual crazy people that are so far on the wrong side of fun it’s not even….funny?…
As someone who has actually dated crazy people before, it kinda sucks. Certain types of mental illness are manageable, but I actually had a (now ex) girlfriend try to enlist my help in murdering her mother. That was pretty much my cue to GTFO. I also dated someone that I later found out had borderline personality disorder…that was a fun one, let me tell you. *rolls eyes*
The problem is that crazy people, like the rest of us, are good at hiding their undesirable traits early in a relationship, but as time goes on the crazy starts to slip out. And I personally am not the kind of person that does well in a relationship like that. I like stability, personally.
That being said, I’d totally date Harley if she were real (and if, you know, the Joker wouldn’t kill me)
I gotta admit crazy is kind of fun, my ex was a complete loony toon. But in a good way, at least until her insurance stopped covering her meds, then it was in a bad way.
Just a distasteful attempt at humour.
Goose duck soup is real, it’s actually really popular in China.
Also, it’s tasty
There is a Polish version, too. Duck’s Blood Soup – I believe it’s called Chenina, although the spelling is most likely way off.
I googled it,it’s called czernina and it sounds yummy. Its a sweet and sour deal,made with blood(you can use pig if your not butchering a foul that day) and vinegar,usually a couple of dried fruits and sour cream. You want to go Poland and get some. Talk about a bad pick-up line!
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It’s totally tongue in cheek. It was meant to be a parody (not satire, quack quack) of what men think about so-called bad girls. I’m sorry you failed to see the humor. I thought it was particularly funny since the site *is* so misogynistic/chavenistic/assholic. I also think it’s hysterical that someone actually took the time to refute it, point-by-point, as though it was meant to be serious at all. Sheesh.
Also because I got paid for it.
-Nicole Lehner Shein
PS. And yes, I’ve eaten goose-blood soup.
Appreciate the blog. I know enough about the topic but am always happy to come across additional information.
Guyism (their catchphrase is “What Guys Need”) recently posted “7 Reasons to Get Involved with a Crazy Woman.” I don’t know about y’all, but I personally found it insulting on pretty much every level.
You found it insulting? WHO CARES? if you don’t like it don’t read it. Simple. Maybe grow the fuck up and realize that there are things in the word that you will take offence too, and if you can’t deal with it without bitching constantly maybe you should go live underground where the mole-people haven’t invented the technology to offend you. Failing that phone your parents because they’re the only ones who will care.