Girls Are Too Serious

Photo illustration by Adia Harris / VOX Staff

By Jonathan Rodriguez / VOX Staff

Laughter plays a very important role in my life, as I’m sure it does for most guys. Any time I’m out with my friends we have the best time cracking jokes and making fun of each other. We’ll laugh at almost anything, especially when someone does something stupid or gets in a good insult. But I’m sure almost all the girls reading this will think we’re immature.

I can remember the first time a girl thought I was too childish because I was telling jokes. It was back in middle school, and I was cracking “Yo Momma” jokes in math class. I had everyone busting a gut except this one girl. I turned around to find her standing next to me and she said, “I thought you were cute and I wanted to talk to you, but you joke around to much.”

What she said next floored me: “I need me a man who is serious.” I mean, we were only in middle school and she was already expecting me to be a mature adult. I just laughed — it’s what I do best.

Girls are too focused on school and success in life, at entirely too young an age to do so. They don’t have time to have fun, or to be funny. I know that biologically they are supposed to mature faster than boys, but is it that much faster? Girls should take a load off from school and other serious matters and learn to enjoy what’s remaining of our childhood.

They want us to act like men, but after we turn 18 we have the rest of our lives to be men. We only have a little time to be kids and have fun with little or no responsibilities. I’ve heard a lot of girls talk about how they like older guys because they act more like adults. Does that mean they like guys who are stressed out all the time, worrying about money and their careers?

Wouldn’t they rather hang out with someone who will pay attention to them and show them a good time? Most teenage girls are thinking too far ahead in life when they should be enjoying the here and now. They like to think that they are already adults, but I have news for them — they’re not.

Girls want to talk about their emotions, feelings and thoughts. That’s OK a little at a time, I guess, but talking about such serious matters all day long really is a turn off for us guys. We want to be with girls and show them they’re special to us, but we’re not in relationships because we want to pretend we’re married. Girls always seem to be trying to find ways to make relationships more serious and all-important than they really are. They want commitment and to look at life as if we’re no longer two individuals but rather one couple.

If girls could look at life a little more the way guys do — or at least try to understand why we act the way we d o— we’d get along better. All we guys want is a girl who’s fun, smart and knows how to enjoy herself, and it wouldn’t hurt if she could cook and clean, too. Now that was a joke, girls. Let’s not pretend to be adults now when we’ll have plenty of time later. Let’s all kick back, relax and laugh a lot together.

Jonathan is a junior at Tri-Cities High.