Where's My Courtesy Wave, B*tch?

: Why don’t women wave when we let them merge in front of us in traffic?

  I think I know why.  And it involves retard babies.

During our day to day lives, we encounter other people as we are trying to get where we are going.  Rush-hour traffic, the entrance to a store, the parking lot, the elevator.  We are in each other’s fucking way.  But this is polite society, so we allow cars to merge in front of us, we hold the door a second longer for the approaching person, we dutifully allow pedestrians to cross in front of our car, we hold the elevator door for the double-stepping person.  Man making a small show of altruism to benefit his fellow man.


I’m sorry, I forgot to include women.

Wait, I didn’t forget.  Women don’t help.

“Whoa, whoa, Zack! That’s a bit much.  Of course women help.  They are just as capable as men.”


I agree, women could help but they usually don’t.  What’s worse, if you help them, they aren’t as likely to show appreciation as a guy, even if it’s a simple “thanks” or a slight wave of recognition.  Pay attention to the cars that you allow to merge in front of you and compare the number of women’s waves to men’s waves.  The next time you allow somebody to cross in front of you, see how many girls recognize your act in the least.   More than likely, the girls will maintain their fixed gaze on the road ahead  or will bound with unbroken stride across the street.  As far as they’re concerned, they were lucky to find an opening or you were obligated to stop or let them go first.


Or, I bet, they assumed that you thought ‘they were hot!’.

So if you’re a girl and you somehow magically find a spot in traffic, don’t need to break stride when approaching a building, or are fortunate to catch that guy after he entered so the door’s open anyways, take a quick look because your life isn’t just so naturally fortunate- somebody is doing you a favor, so look around and give a courtesy wave, b*tch.

That was the main point of this Up.  The second half is merely me trying to help us understand how this could have come about.  You are probably better off moving on.  Have a good one.

continuation:

Okay, thanks for sticking around.  At this point, I’m going to assume you agree with my opinion that women aren’t as altruistic as men in matters of transportation and group movement.  If you don’t, you are probably a girl or a guy who doesn’t really have much consideration for other people anyways.

So why isn’t the b*tch likely to wave?

I always thought that women tended to be more compassionate and sympathetic with other people.  I learned that women’s communication faculties are more capable than men’s on average.  Part of being an effective communicator is being able to simulate another person’s thought process.  I can’t just ‘say words at you’ and you will get my message.  I have to have some clue how you think in order to make sure I arrange my words so that you can make sense of them.  Women are supposed to be good at this, and I wager they really are in general.  So why can’t she use her womanly intuition to understand that I inconvenienced myself for her sake? 

Back when we were cavemen and everyone looked like this… Hey, pay attention, this is SCIENCE! Back in the day when we all looked like this and sold auto insurance, men did the hunting.  We men formed hunting parties and had to bring in a certain amount of meat or our tribe suffered malnutrition and could not fend off attacks or sickness.  Malnourished mothers gave birth to retard babies who couldn’t do jack shit and the tribe died off.  So we men had to kill that deer otherwise there would be a lot of retard babies on our hands.  Now, the deer would get startled if we used vocal communication, so we had to coordinate our attack with minimal interaction and with the use of pre-determined attack patterns.  We had to anticipate eachother’s movements as well as our prey’s.

During a hunt, I see that you are having difficulty getting into position.  I know that there is a gap because of that fact.  I know you need more time to get into position.  Like I know you need to change lanes immediately if you are going to make it into the upcoming turning lane as your urgency suggests you need to do.  So caveman me shifts positions a little to fill the gap a bit while you advance.  The modern me applies the brakes a little to allow you to chance lanes and move over.  Both with minimal communication if any at all.  So the fact that women are better communicators didn’t hinder that deer getting his ass predated one bit. 



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