three things i dont get about boys

I wrote this for my ENG 112 course. I’ll probably be posting more stuff that I write for it soon. Feel free to comment

Boys. “Can’t live with them, can’t live without them,” so the old saying goes. I couldn’t agree more. Boys are sweaty, gross, rude, insane, but they are also gorgeous, sweet, loving. And of course they are kind of necessary for survival of the human race. But why do they have to be so different from girls?
The main thing I don’t get about guys is why they can’t just tell you straight up how they feel. I know girls are often round-a-bout in the way that they tell you things but most boys won’t even tell things at all. Life would be so much easier if a guy would tell you as soon as the issue was raised, whether or not he is actually going to date you or not. He doesn’t have to ask you out on the spot or even in the near future, but he should at least let you know whether or not to abandon all hope.
Another thing that guys do that I don’t understand is when they feel the need to do things that are “manly.” The stereotypical male never asks for directions, never actually listens to their wife/girlfriend, always forgets anniversaries and birthdays, and never ever cries, at least not in front of anyone else. A man who listens, remembers important things and is sensitive is a woman’s dream guy. If a man were to do almost exactly the opposite of what is expected of him, women would be beating down his door for a date.
One of the other things that I don’t understand about men is how they don’t pick up on what women want them to do. When a girl says “I’m so ugly,” she wants her boyfriend to tell her that she is the most beautiful person on earth. When a woman says “Oh never mind, it’s not important,” nothing could be more important. Even though some of these signals are hard to pick up on, you would think that eventually a man would begin to remember them. Unfortunately, most men don’t have attention spans that are long enough.

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