Ok, I’m probably a little slow on these things, but these two studies are funny somehow. Not so much in the sense that I laugh when I hear that women are less happy than men, but just listen to some of this stuff!

Men apparently enjoy being with their parents, while women find time with their mom and dad to be slightly less pleasant than doing laundry.

Now, I won’t lie. I enjoy doing laundry. A lot. In fact, I relish the hours I spend every week, making sure that my bedsheets are soft and fluffy. I love the smell of clean laundry so much that I don’t mind waking up before noon on Saturdays to achieve that goal. But seriously, are parents really that bad?

I was just telling someone the other day that if one were to have children, one should ask the stork for a baby girl. After all, I said only half-jokingly, girls remain loving and close to their parents well into adulthood while a boy will just grow up and say that his mother is high maintenance. With this new empirical evidence, I’m going to have to entirely change my outlook on life and my long term reproductive goals!

Oh, and here’s another classic from the co-author of one of the studies, on why teenage girls are less happy than their male counterparts:

Ms. Stevenson, who’s 36, said: “When I was in high school, it was clear being a hottie was the most important thing, and it’s not that it’s any less important today. It’s that other things have become more important. And, frankly, people spent a lot of time trying to be a hottie when I was in high school. So I don’t know where they find the time today.”

Suddenly, I feel so pleased to have gone to a nerd school, where I was blissfully spared this horrible hottie-pressure. Although it was always terribly embarrassing to be so awful when it came to integration-by-parts…