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    Image of PilgrimSoul PilgrimSoul
    01:07 PM

    In reply to "Pity The Man Whose Wife Writes A Memoir": Why Men Fear Female "Oversharing"
    How about men who write quasi-fictional novels about how fat their wife's ass has become since she bore him several children?
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    Image of SarahMC SarahMC
    01:05 PM

    In reply to "Pity The Man Whose Wife Writes A Memoir": Why Men Fear Female "Oversharing"
    "No husband I know speaks out of school about his wife."

    Lie.
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    Image of HistoricUpstart HistoricUpstart
    01:09 PM

    @SarahMC:
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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    01:03 PM

    In reply to "Pity The Man Whose Wife Writes A Memoir": Why Men Fear Female "Oversharing"
    For the love of pancakes... PEOPLE gossip. PEOPLE overshare.

    These things are not gender specific. They are human qualities.
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    Image of A Small Turnip A Small Turnip
    01:02 PM

    In reply to "Pity The Man Whose Wife Writes A Memoir": Why Men Fear Female "Oversharing"
    I am fist-clenchingly tired of this gendered zero-sum game. How many ways do we need to say it: men and women are not enemies. One sex does not have to lose so that the other may win. Social intercourse between the sexes does not have to be predicated on combative point-scoring, Mr. Felten. Nobody gains anything with that particular world view. Well, nobody except hackneyed columnists spooling out the same old bollocks for a paycheque.

    Let's do something fun, and try to shift the dialogue towards something more collaborative and insightful. Because I'm sure as shit that this hoary old binary view is worth absolutely nothing.
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    Image of Tchotchke Tchotchke
    01:02 PM

    In reply to "Pity The Man Whose Wife Writes A Memoir": Why Men Fear Female "Oversharing"
    As Anna mentioned above, I have been privy to many of the conversations my male friends have about their girlfriends. And you know what was shocking about them? How incredibly intimate the conversations were. Intimate to the point of being vulgar and disrespectful to their significant others. So, Mr. Felton, I suppose I am speaking out of school, but kindly go fuck yourself.
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    Image of boobookitteh boobookitteh
    01:03 PM

    @Tchotchke: Seriously! I had a male boss who told me extremely intimate details of his sexual relationship with his wife - to the point where I couldn't look her in the eye when we finally met.
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    Image of Tchotchke Tchotchke
    01:07 PM

    @boobookitteh: I particularly like the conversations where men pick apart their girlfriends' anatomy. Because I really need to know intimate details about what their vaginas and breasts look like. Or how she orgasms.*

    Both conversations that I had to endure at somepoint in the last year.
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    Image of boobookitteh boobookitteh
    01:01 PM

    In reply to "Pity The Man Whose Wife Writes A Memoir": Why Men Fear Female "Oversharing"
    Huh. Interesting. I will refer Mr. Felton to this recent article which lists the topics men and women gossip about. I believe you will find 'sexual relationships' in the top 10 of men's topics.

    [www.telegraph.co.uk]
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    Image of bowleserised bowleserised
    01:00 PM

    In reply to "Pity The Man Whose Wife Writes A Memoir": Why Men Fear Female "Oversharing"
    "Pity the man whose wife writes a memoir."

    And pity the woman who is skewered in her husband's novel, pushed out by his literary cronies and demonised by his biographers.
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    01:00 PM

    In reply to "Pity The Man Whose Wife Writes A Memoir": Why Men Fear Female "Oversharing"
    Ah, well, I hate coffee, so I am in the clear.

    That made as much sense, I'm sure of it.
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    Image of Flackette Goes Retro Flackette Goes Retro
    12:58 PM

    In reply to "Pity The Man Whose Wife Writes A Memoir": Why Men Fear Female "Oversharing"
    When men write memoirs, they are writing about the common human experience. When women write memoirs, they are oversharing. Got it.
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    Image of Ailatan Ailatan
    01:08 PM

    @Flackette Goes Retro: exactly the same applies for talking
    men: networking
    women: gossiping
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    Image of PilgrimSoul PilgrimSoul
    12:58 PM

    In reply to "Pity The Man Whose Wife Writes A Memoir": Why Men Fear Female "Oversharing"
    You guys, look, violating a man's privacy is like rape.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    12:55 PM

    In reply to "Pity The Man Whose Wife Writes A Memoir": Why Men Fear Female "Oversharing"
    I can't tell you how many times my boyfriend's identity has been stolen because I just can't shut up about his social security number.
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    Image of mbprice mbprice
    12:59 PM

    @morninggloria: I don't even know how those kinds of things come up, honestly! I mean, it's not like 856-966-6521 is a number you use everyday or something! Lord knows how people get these things out of me.
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    Image of feather_spin feather_spin
    01:08 PM

    @mbprice: Heeeeyyy, aren't you mbprice of the Jezebel prices? I know your mother. Before she got married, I mean. What was her maiden name again?
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    Image of BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
    01:09 PM

    @mbprice: Period. Mother's maiden name: McGillicuddy. Missionary. Bondage. Hairy nose. Wait, what were we taking about? I lose track so easily. Constipation.
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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    12:53 PM

    In reply to "Pity The Man Whose Wife Writes A Memoir": Why Men Fear Female "Oversharing"
    Oversharing with words really does have advantages over oversharing your penis. For example, it does not spread gonorrhea.
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    Image of mbprice mbprice
    12:55 PM

    @Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!: It can lead to another kind of VD, though: verbal diarrhea.
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    Image of mbprice mbprice
    12:51 PM

    In reply to "Pity The Man Whose Wife Writes A Memoir": Why Men Fear Female "Oversharing"
    Some people overshare information; others overshare their penises.
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    Image of OneTwoPunch OneTwoPunch
    12:50 PM

    In reply to "Pity The Man Whose Wife Writes A Memoir": Why Men Fear Female "Oversharing"
    Ah, I call bullshit on this one. I can very discreet about my private life, especially in the context of a marriage. On the contrary, I've seen men gossip like a group of cackling old gals in a knitting circle.

    Personally, I keep the details of my sex life (and most of my life) to myself because I'm tired of over-sharing in general: it's every reality t.v. show, every celebrity-centered blog, the rehab shows, all the self-help books, all the talk shows, the sex tapes, it goes on and on...ugh, enough already. Let's all clam up!

    Kidding, but there's a time and a place for every type of conversation, and that goes for both men and women.
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    Image of mbprice mbprice
    12:49 PM

    In reply to "Pity The Man Whose Wife Writes A Memoir": Why Men Fear Female "Oversharing"
    Wait, I'm not supposed to talk about my relationship problems with my other guy friends?

    I'm not so sure it's me and all my male friends who need to turn in our guy cards; it's Felten that needs to turn in his reality card.
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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    12:52 PM

    @mbprice: But it might turn you gay! Or you might learn something that will help you in your relationship... and then turn gay!
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