Monday, 17 October 2016

Differences Between Men And Women

Now, I have a 20 year experience at being a  boy child. I have lived among women  since I was very young. First my mother and  my sister in the house,then, my female friends, classmates and relatives. So I have observed them quite a while to vouch that in many complex ways women are different from us men (or that we are different from them)-not better or worse just different. And science has helped to undergird this (we will delve into this later).
There is just about only  one thing that men and women have in common, and that is we belong to the same species, that we are both human. We both have a soul, a mind and a spirit. We both feel pain, love,happiness and rejection. We both have have a brain (its nothing short of prosaic) but the way we percieve the world is a tad dismillar: the subjects we talk about, the way we express our  emotions,  how we operate and even the way we love is essentially different.
We've grown up knowing that the only contrast between boys and girls is in their gonads, their reproductive organs. But it is more complex than that.  Female persons can multitask, males can't. Girls love people,boys love things. Women never stop talking, men dont want to be nagged. Ladies want an emotional love, men a physical one. And much more to mention.
What we are taking for granted however is the fact that these differences can take a toll on relationships between the sexes. Women criticize men for being insensitive, uncaring wanting to do sex instead of making love and not listening. Men critize women for talking a little too much and not wanting sex. (But hey the sex part is for married couples).
We all have heard some frustrated people whining that they have had enough with not just a particular individual but with the entire opposite sex. Sometimes it is not even because of unfaithfulness in the relationships. Very often, I just think,  it is because of not understanding what men or women want, how they communicate and how they want to be loved. This is a typical example of how we end up in clashes because of our distinct gender variance.
In this series of articles I will be discussing these differences. And it the end I hope it helps us understand each other and relate better because they stick with us.

Now we begin.


In part 1 I gave you a peek into this subject of the difference between the sexes. And right away I will plunge headlong into the contents in this rubric. So I welcome you to read on:
1.Talking And Language.
Women are great talkers and talking  to them is quite something. You know when she can't talk to you, you are in trouble. It is an imperative tool they use to foster friendship and cope with stress. Female friends bond by talking, the more close they are, the more they each other in a nuanced kind of way: They are acquainted with each other's little secrets, insecurities etc. But for dudes the tack is different. They way of becoming best of friends for them is accomplishing things together. Of course men talk to each other about lots of subjects but it's barely personal stuff.
And they (women) speak way more than men do in words and cues:
We also know the flip side of this tack: gossip.
Contrast a woman's daily 'chatter' to that of a man. He utters just 2, 000 - 4, 000 words and 1, 000 - 2, 000 vocal sounds, and makes a mere 2, 000 - 3, 000 body language signals. His daily average adds up to around 7, 000 communication 'words' - just over a third the output of most women (which is 20,000 communication 'words').
This speech difference becomes 


Fiona: ‘Hi Darling… it’s good to see you back home. How was your day?’

Mike: ‘Good. ‘

Fiona: ‘Brian told me that you were going to finalise that big deal with Peter Thomson today. How did it go?’

Mike: ‘Fine. ‘

Fiona: ‘That’s good. He can be a really tough customer. Do you think he’ll take your advice?’

Mike: ‘Yeah. ‘

… and so on.

Mike feels as though he’s being interrogated and becomes annoyed. He just wants ‘peace and quiet’.






Women can speak and listen simultane￾ously, while at the same time accusing
men of being able to do neither.

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