The difference between men and women

[mutepointe]

doug, those women were hitting on you and trying to meet you. ask you wife. she'll tell you.

[Domhnall]

The difference between men and women is decreed by nature to be varying but continuous, because the survival unit is the family, and if the two senior figures in the family constantly take different views and therefore different approaches to problems, the likelihood increases of the family surviving because one of them is right.

I like this definition best, it at least gives me some hope that I am occasionally right.

Cheers,

Dan

[lixnaw]

Sometimes i'm afraid i don't know the difference anymore




Just wondering how many more women need to shave ? But then again, that might be a secret

*Ducks and runs*

[emmline]

The difference between women and men is that men will usually be on time for an appointment. A woman will only ever be on time for an appointment with her hairdresser.

If this is a rule I'm an outlier. My tendency is to be pathologically early, because I'd vastly rather sit and read (or something) than feel the going-to-be-late anxiety.

[Jack]

Women are more religious in general. I remember in a sociology of religion class talking about how despite most Eastern and Western religious traditions placing a great emphasis on male leadership, the majority of religious communities the world over is made up of women. Go to any church in North America or Europe and you're likely to see lots of women, particularly old women, who are some of the most religious people.

[WyoBadger]

Western religious traditions placing a great emphasis on male leadership, the majority of religious communities the world over is made up of women. Go to any church in North America or Europe and you're likely to see lots of women, particularly old women, who are some of the most religious people.

Sometimes I wonder if that's why there's the emphasis on male leadership--to keep the men from sitting on their behinds while the ladies do all the work.

Just a thought.

T

[WyoBadger]

The difference between men and women is that men expect women to look beautiful and then comlain that they take forever to get ready;
women expect men to work hard, then complain that they don't smell so good.

Or is that just me and my wife?

Tom

[Charlene]

(all measurements are relative and not absolute)


2. Women have broader feet than men (men´s feet are narrower).

And, obviously, when men design women's dressy shoes they don't take that into account!

[jim stone]

Differences (as in broad tendencies):

Margaret Mead said that in every culture she had observed,
men tended to be more aggressive than women.

Women tend to get more satisfaction out of nurturing
things.

Women tend to be more interested in romance
and love.
So, for example, women are the
chief source of readers of romance novels.

They tend to remember anniversaries, important
dates, better than men do.

Where men in prison tend to form gangs,
women tend to form families.

Women seem to tend to be better at noticing
detail and keeping it in mind.

Women tend to have stronger linguistic skills,
e.g. they tend to be the more formidable gender at
scrabble. Men tend to be stronger at chess.

The people at the extremes tend to be men,
e.g. great scientists, armed robbers, great artists,
serial killers.

Women tend to have strong psychological skills,
e.g. understanding what people are up to.

So, for example, many psychotherapists and
counselors are women.

I don't think these tendencies are cultural, not entirely.

[MagicSailor]

Hi

Differences (as in broad tendencies):

Margaret Mead said that in every culture she had observed,
men tended to be more aggressive than women.

One of my friends has a Brazilian girlfriend. She killed her ex husband. She's the only person I've met who's killed anyone outside of a war situation. (From what I know of the story, nobody could possibly blame her.) In Africa, I saw, on two different occasions a woman chasing another woman with a very large breadknife.

Also, I'd say that when men do get into a fight, they tend to abide by certain unwritten rules like "not below the belt". Women don't seem to have any such inhibitions. Of course, if a woman ever finds herself attacked by a man, my recommendation would definitely be to go for "below the belt". Yes, it will make him very angry, but it will also make him very incapacitated. It's the only pain a man can ever experience that comes anywhere close to childbirth.

Women tend to be more interested in romance and love.
So, for example, women are the
chief source of readers of romance novels.

I'm not so sure that makes them more interested in romance and love in real life. More young men than young women kill themselves over some sad love story.
I've always been a hopeless romantic. More so than any of the women that have been in my life, but I'm still hoping (against all odds).

They tend to remember anniversaries, important
dates, better than men do.

Men tend not to regard anniversaries as particularly important dates. When we do manage to remember them it is because we know there'll be hell to pay if we don't. That doesn't mean we don't appreciate whatever happened X weeks, months, days ago, just that the date itself is less important than the daily enjoyment of whatever it was that date brought us.

Regards,

Owen Morgan

Yacht Magic
Anchored in the lagoon, St Maarten

My new blog.
Click here for my latest reported position. (Use the satellite view.)

[Jack]

(all measurements are relative and not absolute)


2. Women have broader feet than men (men´s feet are narrower).

And, obviously, when men design women's dressy shoes they don't take that into account!

I heard RuPaul say she wore size 16 stilettos.

I wonder where she finds them.

[jim stone]

Hi

Differences (as in broad tendencies):

Margaret Mead said that in every culture she had observed,
men tended to be more aggressive than women.

One of my friends has a Brazilian girlfriend. She killed her ex husband. She's the only person I've met who's killed anyone outside of a war situation. (From what I know of the story, nobody could possibly blame her.) In Africa, I saw, on two different occasions a woman chasing another woman with a very large breadknife.

Also, I'd say that when men do get into a fight, they tend to abide by certain unwritten rules like "not below the belt". Women don't seem to have any such inhibitions. Of course, if a woman ever finds herself attacked by a man, my recommendation would definitely be to go for "below the belt". Yes, it will make him very angry, but it will also make him very incapacitated. It's the only pain a man can ever experience that comes anywhere close to childbirth.

Women tend to be more interested in romance and love.
So, for example, women are the
chief source of readers of romance novels.

I'm not so sure that makes them more interested in romance and love in real life. More young men than young women kill themselves over some sad love story.
I've always been a hopeless romantic. More so than any of the women that have been in my life, but I'm still hoping (against all odds).

They tend to remember anniversaries, important
dates, better than men do.

Men tend not to regard anniversaries as particularly important dates. When we do manage to remember them it is because we know there'll be hell to pay if we don't. That doesn't mean we don't appreciate whatever happened X weeks, months, days ago, just that the date itself is less important than the daily enjoyment of whatever it was that date brought us.

Regards,

Owen Morgan

Yacht Magic
Anchored in the lagoon, St Maarten

My new blog.
Click here for my latest reported position. (Use the satellite view.)

Please remember 'tends.' Nobody denies that there
are violent women or that women commit murders.
But the very large majority of violent behavior
in most cultures comes from men.

So, for example, where there are armed robberies,
a woman with a gun and a loud voice is going to
be quite effective. And sometimes it happens.
But I daresay that 99 percent of the people holding
up convenience stores, robbing banks, etc. are men.

And so on. There are very few female serial killers,
and the candidates tend to use poison more than
knives and guns.

Men are much more inclined to 'carry a torch'
about a particular woman for years than
vice versa. Women tend to be emotionally
practical. Men are the 'romantics.'
They go to the woman with poems and
flowers.

But while they're not romantics,
in solid relationships women do tend to
value loving and being loved in a way
that most men do not. Even though they are less inclined
to write poems and send flowers,
as the song goes, 'love is their whole
happiness.' Not quite that much, of course,
but I believe
loving and being loved is more central to
the life of a woman who is loving and being
loved than it is to the man--which is not to
say it is of small importance to him, either.

That's one of the reasons women are into anniversaries,
which typically commemorate love and how long
it's gone on. Also why they love stories/movies about men and women
falling in love. Matters of the heart are much more
the 'meat and potatoes' of their lives.

And I believe this is the case among professional
women, etc. who have careers, etc. Love doesn't
play the central role it does for them because
they don't have work they value.

Again 'tends.'

As to women in combat, Margaret Mead, a feminist,
argued that women shouldn't be allowed in combat
because they would be too vicious. Men, on account of
millenia of combat, have a better sense of when to stop.

This seems interesting but wrong. To the best of
my knowledge, women do well in combat. The chief
difficulty has been in the Middle East--the Israelis
pulled women out of combat because the men
they were fighting wouldn't surrender to women.

Another difference is that men tend to be more
sexually driven, which is not to deny that women
are sometimes strongly driven. Sex research (the
researchers women) reported that when young girls
are given strong injunctions to stop masturbating
they do; not boys. Women tend (note 'tend') to have
an easier time repressing sexuality.

They are not obsessed with looking at pictures of
naked men.

I was in prison once for a month with a lot of heterosexual
men, and I was glad to get out when I did, because
it was plain what was going to start happening
before long.

[izzarina]

Women tend to be more interested in romance
and love.

I think that men think they are interested in romance and love, but there is a very big difference. For a man, romance and love focus on the physical, but for a woman, it focuses on the emotional. A woman can be quite content with a night of just talking, and then coming away from that evening thinking it was the most romantic of her life. The man, however, more than likely will feel there was quite a bit lacking because his physical "needs" were not met.

[falkbeer]

Aha. It's back.

I am struck by the fact that for almost every example I see here, I remember examples to counter them.

5. If you (a guy) walk in a straight line on the sidewalk you will slightly nuge the shoulders of (bump in to) women but never men. Men seem to have a better "radar" to steer cleer from other men.

See, now that's an interesting perspective.

I'm thinking this may be in some part cultural or according to locale. Which is sort of cultural in a way, too, I guess. Within the city proper of Minneapolis, I haven't noticed any really definite tendencies about the personal-to-public space thing either way, except that when someone, man or woman, sets up a big - or what I might better call assertive - personal space on a public walkway, it seems to be more often when with someone else. Very often in that case it's more a sort of "You'll move before I will" vibe. Hiding behind the skirts of strength in numbers, I guess. So what I see is more of a social phenomenon. I don't know if it's locale-specific.

But that's how I'm interpreting it; not as an issue of radar, but of claimed space. You would think that men might be more assertive in this, but I don't see that; I'll concede that when they are in groups, I'll expect women to demonstrate an assertive personal space. Singly, either sex could go either way, in my experience.

BTW, the "Question to the Mods" thread is now gone missing. How appropriate.

I have repeated this experiment many times. And the outcome is always the same. A man (myself) will nuge shoulder only with women never with men. Men seeme to notice that you are coming much earlier (20m or so) than women and slightly corret their course. I walk casual in a straight line on a medium crowded street in the city. I use shades and pretend to be looking a something that catch my focus away from the pedestrians on the street (a map, my watch...).

However, and this is interesting, if I am carrying a cup easily identifiable beverage or food, such as a cup of hot McDonalds coffee or a hot dog. Women seems to avoid bumping in to me.

So far this is just empirical data. The interpretation is still open.

[Doug_Tipple]

This note taped to the refrigerator shows why men shouldn't take telephone messages:

Sweetheart,
Someone from the Gyna Colleges called.
She said that your Papst Beer was normal.
I didn't even know you liked beer.