Where women's feelings overrule male rational logic and fact. It has worked for centuries because men want sex and wish to avoid nagging, divorce and losing everything they ever worked for.
Tom, I really want those $1000 Jimmy Chu shoes. Well Tiffany, I can't afford them. Guess who is not getting any sex until shoes are purchased via Shelogic.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)