Ladies, are there times when you can’t figure out what your boyfriend, husband, or even just your male friend is thinking? You’re not alone, but I’m sure you already know that. Every woman seems to have a hundred stories about their stupid boyfriend, husband, friend, whoever, saying or doing something that was so incredibly stupid that she just cannot wrap her head around it. Well fear no more, I’ll give you the low down on what’s going on inside the male psyche. This will not be a one blog thing, it’s too wide a subject for it to possibly be. It’s going to be an ongoing commentary and analysis of men and the way they think. This will not apply to all men either. As with everything, there are exceptions to every rule, afterall, not all women think the exact same way, right? Speaking of which, I will also have to make some minor assumptions about the female pysche to make some of my points. Obviously I am no expert in any sense of the imagine, but I believe I have a little bit of insight on the matter. But please, if anything I say is so off-base or offense that you’re outraged by it, please tell me. With those disclaimers out of the way, we begin.
Men and women are different. Obviously this is not new development. Nor is the fact that they communicate differently. In fact there have been dozens, perhaps even hundreds of books written and studies done trying to figure out why this is. Deborah Tannen, in her book, You Just Don’t Understand believes men communicate to create and/or emphasize the power structure at work, while women communication to creat and maintain strong interpersonal relationships. Perhaps the most famous example being John Gray’s, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, where he argues that the opposite intimacy cycles of men and women are what make communication difficult between the sexes. Both of these, and most other scholarly arguments for why and how men and women communicate different have merit. But they’re all scholarly and burdened by official research and “facts.” In the coming months and maybe even years, I’ll give you my take via real life examples and stories to illustrate the inner-workings, or in some cases the lack-there-of, of the male brain.
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