Women be shoppin', y'all!
Posted at 1:46 PM Dec 03, 2009
By Andrea Grimes |
Hey, y'all ever notice how women be shoppin'? And men be like, I don't want to go shoppin'? Bitches be crazy!
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, the Chicago Sun-Tribune has proven this trite shit by making an example of one couple. In some of the best reporting this side of whatever the Enquirer is up to, a S-T writer read a book written by former Esquire editor Lee Eisenberg about his family's shopping habits and then ... summarized it. See, Linda and Lee have different ideas about shopping and spending, and therefore we can make sweeping generalizations bout how men and women be different, y'all!
I once spent 4 hours in a Macy's trying to help a boyfriend spend a $50 gift certificate. I thought it would never be over. Another boyfriend used to drive to comic book shop after comic book shop looking for the perfect graphic novel. And yet another guy I dated couldn't be paid to leave a Fry's electronics. Forgive me, but "most men" I know do as much or more shopping--and liking it--as I do.When the couple shop for a vase, Linda "is extremely methodical, careful, and weighs all the alternatives," Lee Eisenberg said during a recent shopping trip with this reporter in tow, demonstrating how men and women have different shopping styles.
"If we don't find a vase after an extensive search, she will go through magazines and rip out pages in her continued search." At that point, Lee already has lost interest. Like most men, he's an "action figure" who wants to keep the momentum going. "It's time to move on, yet Linda remains in a Zen-like quest for the perfect vase."
But why talk about interesting human habits as a whole we we can break things down into a boring and simplistic boy-girl problem where in the "boy" version is invariably favored?
In fact, in the classic trend article tradition, the S-T admits that this shit is basically not true.
Ladies, don't start feeling too superior. Women can just as easily be the "wait and whiners" as men, and they may also prefer to "grab and go," as Lee explains these tendencies.So, to be clear: these gendered habits aren't set in stone and probably don't exist in the way this article presents them ... so we're just going to go ahead and say how we think things are and should be based on what we think girls do and what we think boys do and who needs evidence and truth, I mean, this is a newspaper, right?
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How do articles like this even make it to print? I am not understanding. For the record, I loathe shopping and my boyfriend clips coupons, bargain hunts obsessively and gave up sleep this Thanksgiving in order to hit up four different Black Friday sales before the sun even came up. But is that at all relevant to our gender or newsworthy? Um, no.
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