Wow. You need to relax – waaaayyyy too consumed with telling all of us what is “masculine” and “feminine”. Got something you need to confess? Methinks thou doth protest too much. Was dad a little hard on ya? It’s OK bro – we all think you’re a buff manly dude. Mat thinks so too.

FYI – Wife gave me flowers once. Once. Sorry, no I did not bend over and say “Gee, honey, these are great!” Never got them again. Never gave her a vacuum cleaner either…

I wouldn’t expect a woman to see the giving of flowers to men as likely to be unappreciated gift. She is a woman – COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF A MALE. Sorta the point of the whole feminism-has-taken-us-off-the-rails meme, I would think.

It seems to me that what we have seen from this discussion, where no mens’ relationships were endangered by how they responded to a woman ‘s question about a chick gift is that flowers are NOT appreciated, for a variety of pretty common sense reasons…and that even women sensitive to male issues can be led by culture and natural projection to innocently give gifts considered inappropriate by the recipients, who are then, out of politeness(and craven fear of insulting the women) are very likely not going to inform them of their error, which is an accurate reflection of what is going on in the culture at large.

You wanna get laid? You wanna get married? You wanna live with some semblance of peace while you are doing so? Accept the Liberation Movement and all of its resultant nuances and consequences, including giving up various aspects of pretty universally regarded ways of manhood, or you are going to go without.

Chuckles is “enlightened” ’cause he can fake it, for whatever reasons, so he’s gonna get him some… Those who are not willing to put up the necessary front, or aren’t a bit iffy to begin with, are going go without, or are VERY lucky bucking serious odds.

Dude, does your therapist know you hate women so much? You are one BITTER MF’er. Yeah, I don’t want flowers either, but sweet Jesus, your anti-women rant smells like serial killer in the making, my man.

Mat,

Yes, we’re all metrosexual girly men here in CA, so if I were you I’d stay away. Really. There’s too many people here anyway…

I don’t think it’s the feminization of men. Unless you’re buying him a purse and nail polish, too. Man.

Like I said, if a guy doesn’t want them, and it’s clear from this response, I got lucky with the reactions based on the odds, I will get them power tools and bullets for their elephant guns instead.