By KATE HUNTER
Alright, we have a challenge for you. If there’s a man in your life, ask him the following questions:
1. “What’s my bra size?”
2. “What’s my dress size?”
3. “What’s my favourite perfume?”
4. “What’s my favourite clothes shop?”
5. “Where did I go to school?”
6. “Can you describe the day we met?”
7. “What’s my favourite film?”
8. “Do I suffer from any allergies?”
So how did that go? You may not even need to actually ask him those questions to have a fair idea of how he might respond – or be unable to respond. But wait. The man who knows all the answers is rare. He may even be extinct.
According to media reports:
Anything that involves dates causes major problems, with a third of the men surveyed confessing to being unable to remember the day they met their wife or girlfriend.
20 per cent of men had no idea what their partner’s best friend is called and the same number admitted that they didn’t know whether their significant other suffered from allergies.
Shoe size, middle name and favourite song or film also baffled the majority of male respondents.
It’s such a cheesy cliché isn’t it? … The bloke in the lingerie department, gesturing to the sales assistant the approximate size of his wife’s breasts…The chill on Christmas day because he bought you the perfume his mother wears.
Cheesy, yes. Cliche, most definitely. But also true? Has it been true in relationships you’ve been in or are in now?
What basic questions could the men in your life not be able to answer about you?
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Top Comments
Late response, but this type of article has been bothering me slightly recently so I figured I'd try to articulate why.
Anyone who says your bra size is a reflection of your personality ought to be be slapped, so why should your boyfriend knowing your cup size have anything to do with how well he knows or loves you as a human?
It seems as though the media reports on which Kate Hunter bases this article are begging for more critical deconstruction than a few rhetorical questions: "it's such a cheesy cliche isn't it?" and a throw to the peanut gallery. I expect more from this intelligent forum than just regurgitating hack material from other forums with a raised eyebrow for a question-mark as to whether it's appropriate.
I don't think many of those questions are relevant to my identity - dress size and shoe size certainly are not.
Anyone who says your bra size is a reflection of your personality ought to be be slapped, so why should your boyfriend knowing your cup size have anything to do with how well he knows or loves you as a human?
It seems as though the 'media reports' on which Kate Hunter bases this article are begging for more critical deconstruction than a few rhetorical questions: "it's such a cheesy cliche isn't it?" and a throw to the peanut gallery. I expect more from this intelligent forum than just regurgitating hack material with a question-mark.
I don't think many of those questions are relevant to my identity - dress size and shoe size certainly are not.
The question we should be asking in response to facile relationship quizzes like this is, 'what questions should we be asking our partners that might actually indicate anything about the strength of their love and care for us?' How about, "do you love me?", "Can you hold the other end of this?" "Can you tell your mum I don't need another scarf without offending her?", "I know it's three am, but a friend just died and I need to go for a long walk somewhere near water, could you please come?", "Have I mentioned recently how much I love you?"
Those are the questions we should ask our men to find out what our relationships are made of.
I don't remember my own shoe size. How am I meant to remember my partner's?