I’ll be straight with you- me and Steve Harvey aren’t friends. I didn’t buy his book, I didn’t check it out at the library, and I haven’t even bummed it off of my friends.
“But Tiarra, how can you say you don’t like the book if you didn’t even read it?”
I didn’t say that.
I said Steve Harvey and me aren’t friends, and that I didn’t read his book. That doesn’t equate to me not liking the book, or thinking he doesn’t make some good points in it. I wouldn’t know.
I didn’t read it.
Where am I going with this, you ask? Hold on, I’m getting there. Where was I?
Oh yeah, acting like a lady.
In my mind, all this Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus nonsense makes things way more complicated than they need to be, know what I mean? The way I figure, if I act like a lady, a man will act like a man. I don’t have to think like him, and he doesn’t have to think like me. I know what I’m doing, and he knows what he’s doing, and we keep life moving.
You don’t believe me?
“OMG, Tiarra, men these days are SO rude. Chivalry is dead, girl. Men today have NO respect for women.”
Let me tell you something. I can count on my hands the amount of times I have been walking into a building the same time as a man I did or did not know, and he didn’t hold the door open for me. I didn’t say a word, I didn’t make a face (other than to smile), and men from the Fortune 500 type, to the belly scratching, belching and balding type held the door to let me by.
“But Tiarra, that’s because all men only want one thing…”
You got that right. All men want to be treated like a man. Just like women want to be treated like a woman. And I find that when I act like a woman (smiling, polite, confident, and genuinely kind), that a man is 10x more likely to act like a man (smiling, polite, confident, and genuinely kind).
Call it overly simplistic if you like.
But I didn’t have to read Steve Harvey’s book to learn that.
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