Blog, can you please tell me why do men spit? In public. On sidewalks. Out of their cars at stop lights. It's so gross.

Answer: There are many, many mysteries in life. This is perhaps one of the biggest. One could easily say that men are disgusting slobs just one notch above the lowliest of farm animals. Though while sometimes true, it's hardly an explanation for why men spit on public sidewalks, their swirling mucus shot with reckless abandon into the path of the unaware -- mothers with babies in strollers, the elderly gingerly picking their way along, people dressed impeccably on their way to job interviews... It can be a veritable spit tsunami some days.

So why DO men spit? Easy: Fear. The men who spit are homophobic. They are afraid that if they "swallow," people will conclude all sorts of things about their sexual proclivity. It's really that simple. Men who spit are afraid of being thought of as gay because they are swallowing a bodily fluid produced by a man -- never mind that it's themselves. (Men who spit also are not that bright.)