Hey Scott. Hey. Question, what is the male equivalent of a mistress? It's a manstress.
You heard it here first y'all. Manstress.
I am so pumped because I'm here with Scott Bromley host of Tech Feed News at Revision3.
Thanks for being here--thanks for having me--Professor Manstress. Professor Manstress. I went to
school for that. Could you please offer our lovely viewers your credentials in manstressing?
First of all uh, when I was single, I'm in a monogamous relationship. Okay. I have been
in one for almost four years. But when I was single, I was kind of a slut. One of the things
that I did occasionally is I would, I guess you would call it date, not single women.
You were a manstress. Yes. Yes. I was the other man in the relationship. I wanted to
talk to you about being the other man because I feel like a lot of times we hear about the
other woman. Mistress has been a term for a woman who is sleeping with a married man
since 1430, did you know? No I did not know that. Well, you know now. I do know. But still
we really don't have a male equivalent of mistress, but it happens--it happens--you
are proof that it happens. No, no, it happens all the time. I'm not the first one. Look
at Don Draper on television. Fictional characters sleeping with married women all the time.
But uh, you're right there is no term and uh, I wasn't proud of my manstressing. Yeah.
I was a little proud, it was kind of fun. Did you know going into--oh yes! Okay. The
first day I met one of them, she was talking about her boyfriend and I was like I don't
care. Was she amazing? Was she a ten? Was she a twelve? She was really hot. There was
also that cliche, when you don't care, when you are kind of a dick, kind of an asshole
it terms women on even more, I don't know why. I hate that it works, but it did work.
That's like a pickup artist tactic, have you heard about this? Yeah, yeah, it is a real
pickup artist tactic but it's also like I don't care, the outcome. The outcome was always
going to be bad. Speaking of bad outcomes, any run-ins with--yes. Okay. [Laughter]. I
know where you're going, yes I did have run-ins with the boyfriend. The girl in one of these
scenarios was kind of a sociopath. There was one time where we were at my house hooking
up and she didn't have a car because this is San Francisco. She called her boyfriend
over to my apartment to pick her up. She didn't go downstairs to meet him, she had him come
upstairs. This is mere moments after we had just finished having sex. Wow. And I have
to shake this guy's hand and be like what's up bro? Did he know that there had been coitus?
Look at me, would you assume that I would be up to those kind of shenanigans? Well Scott
you are you know a dashing blond. Dashing-pfft, stop it. Let's get back to a little bit of
word-nerding. Clearly like male promiscuity, man sluts, whatever you want to call them,
they exist. But again, kind of like how we don't have a male equivalent term for mistress,
there are so few words to describe even a Don Draper, you know, or you when were single
apparently. One study that a linguist did trying to find how many English words we have
for promiscuous men versus women. For women there are over 200 words to choose from. Magical.
For men: 20. Well I kind of blame guys. I would assume that men created most of the
200. Yeah. And I think they're really creative in coming up with names, I mean think of how
many guys just name their penises? They aren't working to make funny terms for male sluts.
Come on guys get on it. And a lot of these terms for promiscuous women will usually be
related to prostitution--right--in some way which is usually been more of a woman's profession.
For any manstresses or aspiring manstresses, do you have any tips? Don't let them call
their boyfriend over to their house. Number one, number two, if you are going to go that
way, do not get attached because you know that they already have this person, they're
not leaving this person for you right away, so you have to say that they're not going
to leave that person at all. Also while you're dating that person, keep your options open
and continue to date other people that aren't already attached, don't put all your eggs
in the basket that's already full. In the manstress basket? In the manstress basket.
I'm just going to throw a theory out there. Perhaps there are more mistresses than manstresses
because maybe men are more willing to take a mistress than women are to take a manstress?
Oh, whoa. Right? Right. No, I never thought of it that way. I didn't either until like
two seconds ago. Wow you just blew my mind. I know I blew my own mind. Well Scott, former
manstress, now reformed--monogamous relationship, headed down the marriage path. Congratulations.
Thank you. Do you though think that maybe we need a little bit more gender parity in
terms of manstress? Do we need like more words for promiscuous men? Yes. Should we even the
score a little bit? Absolutely guys, get on it. C'mon let's come up with some funny names
for manstresses. Manstress is the perfect place to start I think. Right. Manstress isn't
even a term. Well it is now. It is now. Twenty-one terms. I didn't go to math school so what
that's another 179? We'll let viewers do the math, let us know if we got that right. Also
any manstresses out there watching please comment, let us know what you think and anyone
who has a creative term for a male mistress, promiscuous dude, whatever you want, keep
it cleanish but comment below and Scott thanks so much for coming on here--thank you so much--you
want to toss out where folks can watch you? You can watch me uh everyday on YouTube.com/techfeed
and also listen to my podcast 'The Comedy Button' at comedybutton.com so go check those
out. Well thank you so much Professor Manstress. Thank you.