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Alisa Kennedy Jones's avatar

I effing LOVE this post!! ❤️😂🙏 "I was the brand manager for Dungeons & Dragons for years so I know a thing or two about marketing something that was decidedly uncool and turning it into a pop culture juggernaut." YES! That is the BOMB!

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Anonymous Dude's avatar

You have to admit, it’s quite the appeal. Definitely a successful Charisma, Diplomacy, or Persuasion roll, depending on your edition of choice. Worth at least enough XP to go up a level.

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

I see what you're doing there, Anonymous Dude!

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

Thank you, Alisa! That means so much considering you were the impetus of my enlightenment! 🤣

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Lee Bacon's avatar

I’m highly skeptical of male menopause, and I plan to complain about it nonstop from now on.

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

Please do! That's a feature, not a bug!

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Liz Alterman's avatar

Hilarious! It's like you're right here in my home 🤣 this one slayed me: "I’M tired too! Sometimes when I get thirteen hours of uninterrupted sleep, it makes me more exhausted!"🤣

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

Bruh...I mean, really??? 😂

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Liz Alterman's avatar

My husband will say things like, “I didn’t sleep very well last night” and I’m dying to say “do you think it’s because you napped for a total of seven hours yesterday?” 🙃

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

Hahhahahhahahahha! Poor dear must be exhausted!!!

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Francesca Bossert's avatar

Well, there is the sudden sports car buying, the golf addiction, then (a bit later, usually) the prostate bummer! And always the tiny niggle in the back. Meanwhile, on Venus...!

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

Ahhh yes, so our symptoms ARE a bit different! I must update my research. Back in the sweaty chambers I go!

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Francesca Bossert's avatar

Although I may buy a convertible if I sell enough poetry books! 😂

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Marina Brox's avatar

Am I the only one wondering how you're supposed to juice those poor eagles?

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

Am I the only one who peed a little reading this comment? 🤣

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Henny Hiemenz's avatar

100% telling people I’m in my Silverback Era

So many jokes

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

I hope you do, Henny!!!

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Suessl's avatar

Sweaty rabbit hole is my band name.

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

I will buy a t-shirt immediately!

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Jess Mujica's avatar

..."mood swings and pits that reek like an ancient casket full of dip spit."

Girl, you got me again. Laughing out loud while I read.

So many times I am one-upped on my day 1 of my cycle.

I endured endometriosis for decades.

Bent over, nauseous, pain searing down my legs.

Can't move.

Husband calls me.

You know the soccer team you said I shouldn't get on because Im 51 and think I'm 31 and completely not conditioned for soccer anymore?

I made it to the urgent care you scoped out last week. I ruptured my achilles.

Now I need you to get up and do all the things I can't do today including take care of me for the next months.

These were not his actual words, but the words I understood would be my role.

So turns out, I am a seer.

True story.

I, at that point, did that thing people do. I saw red.

Then I disassociated.

Then months later, I apologized for kinda freaking out while he had a detached important tendon.

Mom's and wives get one-upped all the time.

Thanks for making it hilarious.

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

Ohhhhh man, I'm seeing red just reading this! You are a seer! And you are also hysterical because I am still laughing at "detached important tendon." 🤣

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Andrea Hoffmann's avatar

The dip spit line…

So grateful I wasn’t sipping my coffee when my eyes fell upon it! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

Honestly I gagged a little writing that! 😂🤢

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Andrea Hoffmann's avatar

I have a story for you next time we talk. If I don’t barf telling it.

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

Can’t wait! I think.

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Jess Mujica's avatar

Yes! Exactly what i was thinking, and I was drinking coffee while reading it.

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Jennifer Haubrich's avatar

I may be in the minority, but I am not telling my husband this is a thing!!

We can barely make it through manflu season in this house. I can't handle any more.

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Manflu season! Definitely don’t tell him. What they don’t know won’t hurt them!

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Jennifer Haubrich's avatar

If it’s real, he will tell me, I am sure!

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Chris Stanton's avatar

Bestie, this is so funny it almost made me have a hot flash. But that may just be the hormones. Speaking of which, my vote goes to “Hormonado: It’s About Time” hahaha.

I always thought it would be smart to market testosterone therapy by incorporating it into food. Like, Testosteroni, the pasta that’s shaped like those magical little swimmers—you know the ones. Who wouldn’t want that with a nice side of garlic bread?

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

Bruh, we may have to partner on this together. A line of testosterone pastas? YES PLEASE! We bring the pasta, you bring the SAUCE! (I just made myself throw up.)

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Chris Stanton's avatar

Scrotulini! Gonadchi! A full line of Pennes!

The SAUCE! 😂😂😂

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

Penne— the obvious choice! 🤣🤣🤣

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Brooke Barker-Pottle's avatar

I think SNL nailed the way to get men to the dr. Make it seem like they’re going to be a podcast guest, not a patient…

https://youtu.be/jfsEgZAtMyc?si=gZSc8bo3ErR-NKEQ

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

OMG this is brilliant!!!

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Brooke Barker-Pottle's avatar

It’s one of my favorite skits, along with the George Washington’s ones. Those really show all that men have to offer the world🙄

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BayPoodle's avatar

You have outdone yourself with this one. And I am not showing it to my husband!!

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

Yeah, I guess the less of them that know the better off we’ll be!

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Lisa Hides's avatar

Almost as bad as male labour pains - those poor men whose backs kill watching their wives push a boulder out of their vijayay. AND NOW THIS?!

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

Yep. We can’t have anything nice.

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Lisa Hides's avatar

Not. Ever. Though my husband having a reduced sex drive would be A WELCOME CHANGE.

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

Ha ha ha yeah that’s the one symptom most women seem to get behind. 🤣🤣🤣

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Cheryl Wischhover's avatar

I cover the beauty industry, and Eagle Juice could be a real product. There is a salon for men called Hammer & Nails. Plus brand names Bravo Sierra, Jackfir, and let’s not forget … Cremo

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

I admit I was quite impressed with the packaging I created for Eagle Juice. I'd leave that on my nightstand. 😂

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Cheryl Wischhover's avatar

It would look great next to the Dude Wipes!!!!

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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CynthiaCM's avatar

My husband and I are both 45. Dude is fast asleep by 9 some nights (while watching the NBA finals!!!). I’m the opposite. I sometimes can’t fall asleep before 11.

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

We are so alike and yet so different!

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CynthiaCM's avatar

I think for some of us, aging means not being able to sleep while others zone out really quickly

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Lindsey Smith | Not Normal's avatar

This might be one of my favorite sentences of all time:

“Guys, we are your sisters in cleavage coolers.” Also I kind of wish menopause were a real thing bc then there would probably be treatments for it!

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Shelly Mazzanoble's avatar

💯

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