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Thursday, January 3, 2008
Get the point? I think you do
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This one is for the husbands and the wives, or anyone who has enjoyed a long-term relationship. It’s about the game of points, as explained in the new paperback book “Points: Women Have Them, Men Need Them,”by I. Glebe.
Glebe, a pseudonym for an “ordinary guy” who’s been married seven times, has written an enjoyable tongue-in-cheek spoof of this game some couples play, sometimes subconsciously, rarely with full public acknowledgment.
As Glebe explains, there is only one basic rule: “Men Need Points. Women Do Not Need Points.” But within that rule, a lot happens.
Men get points through compliments (not fished for), gestures, gifts, flowers, public acts of affection, and, when all else fails, abject apologies. Men can also lose points, through not listening, answering questions incorrectly about how these pants look, playing too much golf, etc.
Men can spend points on things like jet skis or golf clubs, Glebe writes, but points really aren’t about jet skis. If you don’t know what points are about, you are too dumb to be helped by this blog.
Glebe also doesn’t assign actual point values to specific acts, because he is not a woman. It is the woman’s job to assign the point values.
This is all in fun, and I hope I’m presenting it that way. So is this game and book of “Points” horribly sexist and old-fashioned, like some Blondie cartoon in the Sunday paper? Or is it a theory that has some merit in relationships even in now?
Anyone care to offer, under seal of blog anonymity, their own Points stories?
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