Five Types of Men and How to Spot Them
by The survey was conducted with twenty women, all of whom had just got back from the pub.
The list does not claim to be comprehensive. The categories and tips for spotting them were all made or suggested by the women interviewed for the survey. The twenty women were between the ages of 35 and 47 and all had just got back from the pub.
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Good Men
These are not that common. They include men that “set store by family” but are not “mother-fixated”, men who are naturally good mannered, men who are protective of women and children (but not overly protective or fixated). Good men are loyal and generous and see women as their equals. Tips for spotting good men: They can often be spotted by the “kind twinkle” in their eyes and their propensity for “liking to make you laugh your socks off”. Good places for meeting good men are supermarkets, libraries and educational establishments, particularly universities.
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Bad Men
Bad men are bullies and usually socially inadequate. They can present as shifty but equally (unfortunately) they can disguise their nastiness with bravado that can be mistaken for niceness. They are completely selfish and will neglect children and animals as required to benefit themselves. They have criminal and dysfunctional predatory characteristics in extreme cases. Tips for spotting bad men: Normally there will be someone in their past who knows how nasty they can be. If they have family but never see them it is more than likely that they are bad men. Often they do not vote or know anything about politics. They do not care about society or environmental issues. More likely right than left wing but even “woolly liberals” can be bad men.
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Ugly Men
Ugly men have characteristics which, surprisingly, are often appreciated by the women surveyed. Indeed “uglies” (as they are widely known) are usually preferred to the Adonis types. Overly good-looking men were often to be found under the Bad Men category. Men with big noses were especially prized by one respondent, while others found “weak eyes”, “pot bellies” and “gangly legs” to be completely acceptable. Tips for spotting ugly men: There are no standard tips for spotting ugly men as ugliness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. (Four out of the twenty women interviewed had actually settled down with men who were not traditionally good looking but who they had grown to find more attractive over the years).
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Immature Men
Rather than a type, this “immature men” category is normally merely a stage of evolution in the development of the types. The best tip offered by the women was not about how to spot them (they are very self-evident) but how to handle them. This was, by all means get to know them and stay in touch but leave it a good five years before considering having a relationship with immature men. Tips for spotting immature men: Childish behaviour, obsessive flirting, completely undependable. Immature men pull faces, brag and are usually disorganised.
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Cynical Men
Cynical men sneer, complain and unfavourably compare anything and everything. They are a pain to be in the company of. Tips for spotting cynical men: Cynical men say things like “sure” and “if you say so” and “irrelevant”. Cynical men are usually over 45.
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Post CommentJan Spalding
On July 5, 2008 at 8:59 pm
How do I get to be part of these brilliant surveys?
Naomi Quirkly
On July 7, 2008 at 8:18 am
I took part. I was approached by the offices of ComedyMoment.co.uk
Justin Time
On July 22, 2008 at 6:30 am
An excellent article!
tootrue
On June 30, 2009 at 1:21 am
Oh my goodness, I’ve dated all these guys – except the first one (wouldn’t of let him go).
AndAnotherThing
On November 19, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Thank you for all of your comments – just as I thought, the survey, although short was right on the button.
anonymous
On October 6, 2010 at 4:36 pm
How and why ? the people and public of the Mexico country, they saying, as them can, drive, and handle, with the power of any man, in the united states country, many man in the country of north America, they become of so bad humour, at many Mexican man, that as suppose, those are funny man of Mexico, but how and whom? real those are Mexican soldiers, disguised as civilians, to can attack to the foreigner public,
man of the country Mexico, those are using military power to crush the manhood of American men, in all the Mexican resorts destinations, this is a nasty dirty Mexican strategy of ending to over with U.S. power, the Mexican military men, they say them can as all, to attack without fear at the northamerican man, with out the north Americans can answered back, at the Mexicans fighting, because someone
(American military as people) may have already made, dirty business, with Mexicans military, in militar matters, those dirty nasty business can be how so visible, into the public, because the Mexican people can attack at Americans, and judges up in the American power, those are being making unfare fine deliberations for the Mexican’s fine and good only, because the American judges, in the supreme court of justice of the American nation, those are people from the country of Germany, those whom are fighting in the country of North America, they are making band with the people from Mexico, because U.S. military man, there are some who claim that U.S. military agreed to receive payments of any kind, for the U.S .military, to bowed for the Mexican fine power, these dirty nasty business were made, by American soldiers, without the consent from the American politicians, since the cumber in Cancun Mexico, in between the two countries U.S. and Mexico, the Mexican military them did call for the U.S. military people, for the northamerican military people, to sell power for the Mexican military, plus to fight at them same northamerican public and politicians, in the early 80’s, ‘the Mexican military and U.S. military they are fighting together at the public and public and at the American politicians, pretending to end with the American’s power, in a dirty nasty and very easy way, them can sexually assault at the American man and them public, the Mexicans they say they are dirty very nasty and how hot, and very attractive, they can to use their bodies as true military weapons, at the united state public.
FedUp
On November 13, 2010 at 1:07 pm
My ex-boyfriend is sooooo #1 and #4. He is such a good man, the characteristics above of “a good man” described him to a tee! But so is the characteristics of an immature man. The only gray area of his immaturity is that he, on one hand, is super dependable, and on the other hand is super undependable. I will explain: He is so dependable in that if we made plans to go somewhere or do something, only an emergency will make him change is mind. He is SUPER undependable because, we may have a fantastic 3 days together, and a few days later, due to some imagined slight from me, or anything, but always usually imagined, he will withdraw from me. He withdrew from me again two weeks ago……so I said to hell with him, and I started dating another man. But he left me with a wonderful list of what to look for in a good man, and quite a few good ideas of what to run from also.
woody
On July 22, 2011 at 10:44 pm
these seem like pretty ridiculous generalizations.
AndAnotherThing
On July 23, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Thank you woody for your summary of all five categories of men as “ridiculous generalizations” (we wish we’d thought of it in the AAT office). Please tell us how you’d complicate the system of classification we advocate based on the ramblings of particularly drunk women. What further categories of men would you add?