When Is It Okay To Ask A Woman If She’s Pregnant?
Jonah Goldberg passes along a helpful hint:
Also men, if your significant other asks you “Does this make me look fat?,” the answer is always, without question, no.
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As in “No, this doesn’t make you look fat, you look fat on your own?”
@Jeff:
Yea I don’t think that’s gonna work out so well for you. Unless you have a really comfortable couch.
You may safely ask once you can see the head crowning. Before then, it’s risky.
If she is not my wife/significant other it’s none of my business. If it is my wife/significant other I have a new set of problems.
I agree, you would never ask that particular question. You might ask “when are you due?” if you are certain she is pregnant.
When Is It Okay To Ask A Woman If She’s Pregnant?
When you’re sleeping with her.
I did once tell my wife a dress made her look fat. I never saw it again. I think she took in the back yard and burned it.
Related question: if a man is fat, but entirely in the belly, when is it OK to ask him if he’s pregnant?
In Brazil it´s worse. Like in the rest of Latin America, people sees motherhood as something sacred and federal law mandates seats for pregnant women in public transportation. But I never ask, I simply cede my seat. 😉
So Beasley is a comedian! Somebody call David Letterman…
Finally, “news you can use” on OTB.
@Hal 10000: When he’s proposing laws/regulations to restrict contraception/abortion, or loudly proclaiming his support within earshot of such policies.
…when she’s not within arms reach or holding something big enough that it will hurt you when thrown.
… Only if I might be the father. Otherwise, I stay out of it.
When you’re prepared to take the punishment if the answer is “No, why do you ask?”
Seriously: if you have to ask, you’re not close enough to the family to know. If she’s far enough along, it will be obvious and you don’t have to ask.
Never.
@Hal 10000:
Anytime. But that is only because men have a sense of humor.
duck.
@Doug Mataconis: “Yea I don’t think that’s gonna work out so well for you. Unless you have a really comfortable couch. ”
Doug, no couch is comfortable when your significant other is beating you over the head with it 🙂