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What they will and will not put up with, where the lines are. Of course it ended, you think to yourself, he had a poster of Delta Goodrem in his bedroom! My own chief criterion has always been about whether or not he has any female friends. When I met my partner, this was one of the many things I liked about him. He had male friends, yes, but lots of female friends, too, many of whom he is still close to. Some people asked me tentatively if I was OK with it. And this stance is far from confined to the evangelical vice president.
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Most stunningly, a majority of women and nearly half of men said it was unacceptable to have dinner or drinks alone with someone of the opposite sex other than their spouse. This kind of thinking is antithetical to the expansive quality of great friendships, which may not be romantic, but are no less important for it. Any successful and enduring male-female friendship is a tiny rebellion of sorts against anachronistic notions of uncontrollable male desire and the female sirens that lure and distract them.
So herein lie my top four things that men don't really give a toss about. And in case you think I'm lying … you can ask them yourselves. There's a brilliant line in the book or the movie - whatever you fancy Eat, Pray, Love , in which the protagonist Elizabeth Gilbert played by Julia Roberts in the Hollywood version , is swanning about Italy eating and drinking to her heart's content.
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Her friend turns to her and says she can't eat another thing for fear she's already put on too much weight to which Elizabeth Julia , turns to her, and says, "In all the years that you have undressed in front of a gentleman, has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left?
It's because he doesn't care! He's in a room with a naked girl - he's just won the lottery! Sure, no one wants to date someone of either sex who's let themselves go to the point of no return, but a few kilos here and there are nothing to stress over when it comes to nabbing a man.
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As Julia Roberts protests, if your skinny jeans don't fit, just get new jeans. On a balmy hot afternoon the other day, after a long day at the beach, men in board shorts and women in bikinis swarmed to a nearby popular nightspot.
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The women stood in line for the bathroom in droves, waiting to reapply their eyeliner, check their cleavage and swap their sandals for stilettos. The men just came straight into the bar, sat down and ordered a drink. None of the blokes really cared about how they looked nor whether they sported a crop of sea hair or not. I'm often asked by women how to dress for a date; what colour lipstick to wear and which heels I reckon might be more suitable to nabbing the man of their dreams than others.
But here's the truth: Are they the ones in luminous red lipstick with super-coiffed, slick hair-dos and skirts so short, teamed with wedges so high you wonder how they'll even get to the end of the room let alone be able to go up to a man and ask for his number?
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Men have articulated time and time again that it's the woman who can pull off jeans and a T-shirt with flat shoes and silky natural hair that makes them look twice …. Many times I've heard men say they don't really care if a woman forgets to shave her legs or wax her bush, or if she isn't sporting a spray tan. Especially if she's naked. Of course basic grooming is imperative.
And of course there are preferences. And of course there are rules when it comes to a woman looking after herself. After all, no man likes to get into bed with a woman resembling a character from a Tarzan movie. But he also doesn't want to see what he deems "a high maintenance woman" either. A friend who moved to Los Angeles and back to "find herself" and then found herself back with the man she started with, told it to me like this: There are certain things men do care about: In fact just the other day, I saw a man talking to his mates about his choice between two women.
One was immaculately dressed, perfectly coiffed, preened and groomed to an inch of her life.