Sorry with the shoes thing! Some do have a thing called a foot fetish, and love pretty pedicured feet in some classy shoes. Just sayin’

This article is WRONG in so many ways!

Sorry, but I take issue with a few items on this list.  While observations 1, 3, and 4 are spot on
(unless #1 includes spiked/stiletto heels and number 4 involves shopping for
some genuinely innovative “marital bliss enhancers”), this white guy is going to have to make himself an exception to your general rule. To address the list items individually:

Lingerie.  You’re
right about how most of us guys view lingerie, but my own criteria is for it to
be as transparent and easily removable as possible.  This is a point of frustration with both my
wife (who describes herself as a “big black momma”) and me because until
Victoria’s Secret gets with the real world and starts marketing to full-figured
(i.e., real) women, there isn’t much to work with in this department.

Make Up.  Really,
ladies, there are those of us who believe that less –much less—is more.  I’m probably an extreme example, but I prefer
an almost totally un-made up face (why women consider this a form of blasphemy
is really beyond me).  Why?  Because I like looking at the beautiful face
God gave you, a face that if I didn’t think was beautiful in its natural state
wouldn’t have led me to get down on my knees and ask you to let me look at that
beautiful face every day for the rest of my life.

Foreplay.  You’re
kidding, right?  I pity you for the “men”
that have been a part of your love  life
if you really think that this is the norm.

Your feelings.  Again,
you can’t be serious.  I’d also say that
your comment “[our] feelings are associated with drama and demands” comes about
as close to an admission of hard reality as I’ve ever read in print.  Yes, women in general and black women in
particular are drama addicts.  You all
would go out of your way to create it if it didn’t arise spontaneously from sources
beyond your control (is it due to boredom? Enquiring mind would love to know).  Anyway, “feelings” have nothing to do with it.
 Finally, from a guy’s perspective, put
yourself in our shoes.  We come home at the
end of a typical day of hell on earth (in fact, hell is probably a more
inviting place, but that’s for another discussion) wanting, at a minimum, some
human warmth and kind words.  We’ve dealt
with enough drama of our own for eight-plus hours during the day and don’t
relish the thought of dealing with more in the one place in which we should be
able to relax.  You professional ladies
go through the same thing at work too, so why bring the drama home  with you after shutting the office door for
the day or add a new “domestic” flavor once you get home?  Seriously, aren’t their more pleasant ways to
spend the rest of the day with the one(s) you love?  Anyway, don’t confuse a need for peace,
quite, and, dare we hope, a little loving with neglect.

In closing, let me add a few more items to your list:

Hairstyles.  What goes
for cosmetics and shoes goes for hairstyles.  Granted, I know how labor intensive and
EXPENSIVE (yikes!) black hair is to do, but seriously, I love running my
fingers through my wife’s “nappy” (her term, not mine) hair, something I can’t
do after she spends a month’s worth of grocery money on an expensive weave.  Alternatively, if she decided to shave all of
her hair off, I would be happy too.  It
won’t make me love her any less or think of her as any less attractive.

Jewelry.  Like
cosmetics and shoes, it just detracts from your natural beauty.  Besides, you rarely ever wear it more than
once after you buy it (a bit of free advice: try on yourself what you tell your
kids – “sweetie, why don’t you wait a day or two and decide if you REALLY want
that enough to spend your hard-earned money on it?”). Oh, and PLEASE lose the
piercings in any place other than your ear lobes.  Trust me, they are NOT cool/sexy/a turn-on.

Tattoos.  It’s
probably just me, but these fall into the same category as the piercings I
mentioned above, only much more so.  To
quote Melly Mel: d-d-d-don’t do it! (BTW, that goes for guys too).

I don’t understand how talking about feelings is considered nagging or complaining…

Oh yeah shoes do not have to be designer but definately not scuffed and busted!

This reads like it was written by someone (obviously, a woman) who doesn’t want or care to put the effort into any of the things written about, and by writing that men don’t care about it, that will satisfy her own insecurities on the matter. And of all of the things listed above, the one about men not caring about feelings was absolutely the most ridiculous. Its unfortunate if a man never cared about the author’s feelings, but to project that sentiment onto every man is really jumping out the window on that one.

At first I was gonna go in on how inaccurate this whole thing is. But this will suffice:

A woman wrote it. Nuff said. *drops mic*