2021-01-18 The “It” That Men Don

Have you ever been around a group of single women, and heard them talking about the problems with men?

It’s kind of interesting, in a morbid fashion, to hear the other side dish out the list of gripes against my gender. But it’s educational — I’ve sat in on a few of these groups, and, do you know what the most commonly-used line (in some variation) was?

He just doesn’t get it.

It applies to nearly any subject, it can mean almost anything, but that’s the overall feeling when it comes to the complaints I’ve heard concerning men in relation to women.

For years, I dismissed this as a standard gripe — I’d be hanging around female friends, and that line would come up, especially from the single ones, talking about guys trying to date them, or first dates gone bad. “Oh, he’s a nice enough guy, but he just doesn’t get it.”

I always wanted to ask, “What the hell is ‘it’, anyway?”

And how can a guy “get it”?

I finally figured it out.