Summary:
In Male fixations, Dave Barry stated that most guys are born to act as if they can control every situation even they are not. Guys do not do the housework is because they are not responsible for that. Their job is to save the emergency problems not to do a little thing like “cleaning.”
Dave doesn’t know how fix and blame it to the tonsillitis. He missed the day when other guys were taught in the auditorium. So at the time when his wife asked him to fix, he is always pretending like he is really good at fixing and then tells his wife that there is nothing wrong with it. Even if it is nearly broken, he still denied saying that there is anything wrong about that.
While Dave is in college, his roommate, Rob, know how to use toolbox and it worked. He intimidates Rob and camouflage like expert. He and his wife, Beth, drive to somewhere. While they are driving, his wife hears some odd noise. But he denies admitting it and uses louder voice to cover the noise.
In the end of the article, Dave claims that he think the problem is not the mechanics. It is because men have a tendency to act like that they can control everything even they don’t. he give an example that probably before the Titanic was sinking into the ocean, there was some guys still explain to his wife about the furniture slide up the wall.
Response:
Do not Ask for directions is also one of the men’s instinct. I don’t why men always don’t like to ask for directions. Maybe it is because they think they have good intuition or they are afraid of that. No matter what it is, I think it’s as bad as pretending to know how to fix.
When I and my friends lose our way, I always suggest him or her to ask someone for help. However, I always will get to answers. One will say, “OK! Let’s ask someone for help.” Another will say, “No, we don’t have to. I can find the way. ” The latter took us one hour to find the way. It is a man.
Probably he has this experience so many times, but he still refuses to ask for direction. I think it is like Dave says in the Male Fixation. Men have a natural tendency to act like they are in control of the situation.
Here, I want to appeal to men. You don’t have to pretend it. It is ok for your guys if you ask for directions or you don’t know how to fix. We will understand and ask other for help. Your natural tendency sometime make me fall into a embarrass situation.
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回覆刪除There are some grammar wrong and inappropriate wording. In first line, “Do not ‘Ask’ for directions is also one of the men’s instinct.”, “Ask” should be “ask”. Next, the sentence “I don’t why men always don’t like to ask for directions” should add verb such as “understand” after the auxiliary verb.
回覆刪除In the second paragraph, “I always will get ‘to’ answers”, “to” should be “two”. Subsequently, “The latter took us one hour to find the way.”, “took” should be “take” because that present tense is used in all the paragraph use, if past tense is used here would be strange. Following is “It is a man.”, which I will change into such as “That is what man usually do.”
In the first sentence of third paragraph, “Probably he has this experience so many times, but he still refuses to ask for direction.”, I think it would be better to change “Probably” into “Even though”. The meaning of “ask for” means requesting or petition, so “for” should be delete and just remain “ask”.
The sentence in the last paragraph, “It is ok for your guys if you ask for directions or you don’t know how to fix.”, I would change into “It is ok for you guys to ask directions or you don’t know how to fix.” Finally, you should consider the word “natural tendency” is appropriate or not in the sentence, “Your natural tendency sometime make me fall into a embarrass situation.” I think it may be better to change “natural tendency” into “behavior.”