Comments on: What Women Want

By: nignig

nignig — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:28:01 +0000

whiskerslick I’m not trying to insult you, but your probaly not displaying sexuality, So they are hiding it and not comfortable displaying sexuality with you, look I thought the same way but once I started displaying sexuality (subtletly) even the dorky girls who are still virgins and stay at home on the weekends are freaky its just a matter of luring that side out of them.

By: whiskerslick

whiskerslick — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:57:53 +0000

While I do not want to argue with anyone, I have never found that women love sex as much or more than men. The men I know have sex on their minds constantly and would give up almost anything to get it. Not the right course to take but true none the less. Women do not see the world as sexual and do not have it on their minds as much as men do. I believe that if they did, approach anxiety would not exist to the extent that it does. That is my experience in this life.

By: Gender Scientist

Gender Scientist — Sun, 06 May 2007 04:56:48 +0000

I think that because women are substantially more vulnerable due to their pregnancies and breastfeeding and long species-imposed child-rearing periods that they depend on others more (as mentioned above) and therefore they use raw social security instinct as a kind of touchstone.
Also, during that PMS period, women at their most fertile time are looking around for the best genes for the job. Someone to add to the Nest, to enhance the Hearth and therefore fitness of her offspring, to slap bacon on the table with her and help her fry it, to contribute more instead of just loll around in a cozy setup (especially if she brings bacon home herself and expects a bit more). The guy in the Lazyboy with the remote control, bag of chips, roach clips, skin mags, beer, and ATV ain’t lookin’ as sweet as he usually does at times like that, esp. when she looks at other guys who have a bit more on the ball. So that’s why women kick men’s asses a little more at that time. There are of course male analogues.

By: David

David — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:06:56 +0000

Luke

The example just happened to involve material and power aspects and the purpose it seems was to be illustrative rather than comprehensive. These are not components in all types of reasoning. Furthermore, selection of focus for relevance, is another aspect of reasoning. In a debate, one can miss the point by focusing on something which is not relevant to the issue at hand.

Now, I have encountered women who are rational in their thinking and men who are irrational, but I think there is definitely something in women that disturbs the ability to think rationally sometimes, more so than men. There may be many factors involved, but one thing I have noticed is men seem capable of greater detachment from the subject of discussion. They seem to have a greater capacity not to weave their personal prejudices and preferences into understanding a situation, if they are at all concerned with the truth. Women seem to have a greater tendency to become more emotionally involved and lose that objectivity. Overall there are pros and cons to being both ways, but one is the weaker when it comes to thinking rationally. This is not absolute, but merely an overwhelming tendency I have observed.

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:44:02 +0000

RE: #5… I think the male brain should not be called “rational” because it implies that the female brain is irrational. The fact is that the female brain *is* rational, but is looking at the emotional and social aspects more than the material and power aspects.
A man and woman both get a raise and then some praise from grandma. They both feel happy from the praise, but the woman constructs a rationale behind grandma’s praise. Since she understands grandma’s social gestures (better than the male), she is probably correct in her understanding.
Meanwhile the man is also happy from meeting with grandma. He subconsciously knows that she is giving her approval of him, which makes him happy, but he probably mostly ignores this aspect and thinks more about the car. He’s correct too.
Both ways of viewing the situation are correct, and both brains are acting rationally, focused on different aspects. (I think this is why men and women can make an excellent team!)

In my opinion — The “problem” the female brain has is that logic based entirely off of social gestures and emotional states can be prone to error from bad assumptions. When dealing with people well known (like grandma), there are little or no assumptions and the female brain makes sense of things accurately. When dealing with people she doesn’t know, a wrong assumption can lead to an elaborate conclusion that is logical but way off.

By: J

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 02:32:09 +0000

“What Women Want”?

To spend money somebody else earned and to have the daylights screwed out of them. Pretty much in that order.