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| Written by Joeprah | |
Being exclusive for the sake of being exclusive is wrong in all its forms. It's strange looking at life from the side of the fence I am on, on one hand I am this average guy who has a great family and a terrific group of friends that are always there through the good and the bad. On the other hand I am a stay at home parent that really doesn't fit the mold of the "stay at home parent" that is very gender specific. Although I have had my growing pains in the latter, I have come through it all as a wiser person and parent. I have some very close m Here, have one on the house: I am known for being a 'go to' wine guy. Anyways, I know that ladies are often excluded from all male gatherings, "boys club meetings", things like poker, golf, and fantasy football leagues, but in my household we do not exclude women from any of those such groups. Our poker nights have many ladies playing, and if any women want to play golf with me I am all for it. I actually keep trying to get my wife to golf with me, but no dice. Like I said before, I enjoy doing things with my wife more than anyone else and that just carries over to basically all activities I partake in. I don’t know what this rant is about exactly, but I just find my life to be an exercise in irony. I have three daughters and I am surrounded by women either through playgroups, playgrounds or school functions. And now, these same women, who I am friends with, say I can't be in the wine club? WTF! All of sudden did I stop being cool? Was I ever cool in the first place? Why not let a dude in the wine tasting group? Are they afraid that I will bring too much knowledge to the plate (Likely)? I love my ladies, but I feel I am being dissed. I mean, what could these ladies talk about during a wine tasting group that they don't say during playgroups? If any of my lady friends read this, pass the word, I want in! You know I am the wine ownage so recognize. A recap:
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om friends and I think that for the most part they regard me as an equal. Apparently though, I was mistaken--at least in one instance. I recently received an email to a joint email account that my wife and I share and it was from a stay at home mom friend. She emailed me to let me know that she was starting a "wine club" that would meet monthly and she wanted me to pass the invite on to my wife. I asked if I could participate as my wife isn't much of a drinker and that she wouldn't get much out of the group (actually I would rather go as a couple, we do everything together). I was told that it was a girl thing and the reason the group was being formed was to allow ladies to have a night away from the family (all husbands need not apply) with the backdrop of wine and wine tasting. First, approaching my wife about a wine club in my presence and saying no guys allowed is the equivalent of Roo asking Tigger to join a "honey appreciation group for bouncers only" in front of Winnie The Pooh. I am into wine more than just a little. I read books, magazines, and websites. I study winemaking techniques, growing regions, and varietal characteristics. I am a wine nerd. I have developed wine tasting/scoring sheets for wine stores I have worked for. 
I like the way you think Mark! 
Is that a wine or whine club? It sounds like to me that that this exclusive chick club needs to whine while sipping wine without the need of feeling like they need to get cleaned up first because HE will be there. It's a chick thing dude! Diss the whine Joe! 
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