In my last post I asked you to comment on my friend’s sexist theory that men generally talk about positive things and women generally talk about negative things.
Based on your comments, I conclude that the aforementioned generality doesn’t hold. Many men are huge complainers too. The exception seems to be men who think they have a higher chance of having sex if they can make conversation without mentioning downer topics like gangrene and underfunded pension plans. Women don’t need to worry about putting their man out of the mood because most guys can perform while looking at famine pictures and listening to Barney sing.
But your comments suggest a new and better theory and it goes like this:
Complainers rarely mate with other complainers.
Complainers seek non-complainers as mates. This makes perfect sense because complainers need the sympathetic ear of the upbeat, i.e. the victim, in order to do their thing. Otherwise the whole system breaks down. Statistically speaking, if your mate is upbeat, there’s a very good chance that you’re a huge pain in the ass.
Sometimes two upbeat people mate. But I suspect that in those situations the one who is slightly less upbeat morphs into a complainer over time just so they have things to talk about. Otherwise you get a lot of this:
Upbeat person 1: How was your day?
Upbeat person 2: Great! How was yours?
Upbeat person 1: Great!
Eventually the emptiness in their upbeat lives would lead them to become a Mormon singing act, or one would die of autoerotic asphyxiation. BOCTAOE.