Ah ha Moment
I have a friend at work. Let's call him Matt because that's his name. Matt and I spend a lot of time talking about relationships. In particular, I spend a lot of time trying to convince him it's not near as complicated as he's making it. Today he had a breakthrough:
"So, maybe girls aren't crazy. They just think differently."
God bless him, it only took him 24 years.
2 comments:
Nope, we're crazy. All of us women are crazy.
The best way I've ever heard that describes the differences between how men and women think was in the book "For Women Only" and the author said something like this:
Mens brains function like a filing cabinet. You can only have one drawer open in a filing cabinet and typically in a drawer, files are organized with other like files. When you need to open one drawer, you have to close the other. And when it's closed, it's closed.
Womens brains function like a computer screen. There can be multiple programs open at once and you can minimize some programs, but they're still there, running in the background and can pop up anytime. And, you can try to close a program, but you could still continue to get internet pop ups, so there's typically always something on the screen.
The book goes into further details using this analogy and it's by far, the best description I've encountered and I totally agree with it!
And PS, stop spreading rumors that women aren't crazy ;)
I must strenuously disagree with the above comment. Men bring just as much mental and emotional baggage to every encounter, but we're socialized not to deal with those things very well. We've got insane grudges from way back when, minor injuries we never voiced, and/or seething resentment about our childhoods.
Of course it's not true for all men, but one must only look as far as the domestic violence statistics to really determine who's the more unstable of the genders. Perpetuating the age-old stereotype of the hysterical woman seems to me just another way to keeping women "in their place."
Dylan
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