Men vs women. Who was more complicated?

Bella said:
Men who exclusively wear white socks are more complicated. 🤭
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fuzzybuddy said:
I had a discussion about men vs women. Who was more complicated? I thought men were super uncomplicated. All you have to do is call a man a "handsome beast" and act like you mean it, and you'll have the ring, his heart, his car keys, and his house keys, by Thursday.
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I think men are far less complicated
 

debodun said:
I heard once that the way men think is like waffles. It full of little compartments and each hold their own syrup and don't combine with any other compartments. When a man thinks, he just thinks of one thing at a time. To think of something else, he has to abandon the previous thought. Sounds like this is the reason some men can't multitask.

A woman's mind is like a plate of spaghetti. Everything is intertwined and touching in multiple places which makes women seem scatterbrained and unfocused.
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I had heard that, that men compartmentalize their thoughts-feelings, whereas women react to the total of life's events as one.
 
horseless carriage said:
Carl Stutz nailed it when he wrote the song for Kitty Kellen, such inspired lyrics:

Blow me a kiss from across the room
Say I look nice when I'm not
Touch my hair as you pass my chair
Little things mean a lot
Give me your arm as we cross the street
Call me at six on the dot
A line a day when you're far away
Little things mean a lot
Don't have to buy me diamonds and pearls
Champagne, sables and such
I never cared much for diamonds and pearls
But honestly honey, they just cost money
Give me your hand when I've lost the way
Give me your shoulder to cry on
Whether the day is bright or gray give me your heart to rely on
Send me the warmth of a secret smile
To show me you haven't forgot
Now and forever, that always and ever
Little things mean a lot
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This song just tugged at my heart strings for reasons best left unsaid.
☹️
 
Women see a relationship as akin to growing a garden. They want to dig down deep among the roots and control growth and development by understanding what is going on down there.

Men see a relationship as similar to buying a new car. They really expect it to putter along for years without much maintenance or attention.
 
A man finds a bottle, opening it a genie pops out and says "I'll grant you one wish and I'm off, what shall your request be?"

Man replies "I'm scared to fly, but love Hawaii, I want a bridge to the island"

The genie stares at him and says "That's a tall order, the building, cement, structure, can't you ask for something else?"

"Sure" the man replies. "I want to know what makes a woman tick why she does what she does why she says what she says why she looks the way she looks"

The genie then stares at him and says, "So do you want two or four lanes?"
 
I've stated this before...

A man marries a woman hoping she'll never change...a woman marries a man hoping she'll change him.

I still think there's a ring of truth to this...not in every case...but in quite a few.
 
Both sexes are as complicated or as uncomplicated as we want to make them. For me, women are not complicated. Relationships are complicated. But as in most things, the levels of complication vary greatly. The perfect relationship is one that is not complicated, but nothing is perfect, so we must always make adjustments. Never try to be complicated just to be more interesting.
 
JustDave said:
Both sexes are as complicated or as uncomplicated as we want to make them. For me, women are not complicated. Relationships are complicated. But as in most things, the levels of complication vary greatly. The perfect relationship is one that is not complicated, but nothing is perfect, so we must always make adjustments. Never try to be complicated just to be more interesting.
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Some years ago we had an older couple at our table of the hotel and the lady said "men and women just don't match".
 
This is why men are staying single later in life.
They are realizing they don't 'need' women. Sure, companionship is good, but thats where it should end.
The downside for men getting married is devastating morally, financially, and from a practicality standpoint.
I have many women friends, been 'dating' one for 11 years. We both agree to never live together, get married, of share finances.
Men and women dynamics have changed drastically in the last 10-20 years
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I had a discussion about men vs women. Who was more complicated? I thought men were super uncomplicated. All you have to do is call a man a "handsome beast" and act like you mean it, and you'll have the ring, his heart, his car keys, and his house keys, by Thursday.
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I think us females might be more complicated. 🤣 LOL Men are straight to the point, don't beat around the bush. Women are more thoughtful and analyze everything and over think things. Plus our emotions get the best of us sometimes too.
 
debodun said:
I heard once that the way men think is like waffles. It full of little compartments and each hold their own syrup and don't combine with any other compartments. When a man thinks, he just thinks of one thing at a time. To think of something else, he has to abandon the previous thought. Sounds like this is the reason some men can't multitask.

A woman's mind is like a plate of spaghetti. Everything is intertwined and touching in multiple places which makes women seem scatterbrained and unfocused.
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That's a good way to explain it. (y)For me, everything is connected. 🤣
 
These first weeks of 2023 have been very challenging for me so i'm just not up to the kind of organized point by point response i'd usually make to this kind of question. Instead some thoughts that came to me as i read the OP and comments:
To the OP's basic question: It's an individual thing, complexity comes from the individual consciousness and how it has been influenced by current life experiences.

Yes, our physical brains have differences, chief of which is the size of the Corpus Callosum which is generally larger in females and is what allows the two hemispheres to communicate with each other. The greater communication between parts of the brain likely the reason women tend to see more connections between events/behaviors than men. Oh and supposedly, i forget why, men have better spatial reasoning (being able to tell by looking if an object or group of objects will fit into a specific space (backpack, moving truck, thru a doorway). Yet mine is excellent and has served me well. Hubby #3 quite stressed at how much better i was at Tetris too.

If i had a dollar for every time a man told me i think like a man when i out reasoned him (particularly about things thought to be more masculine domain--fixing something physically, solving an intangible 'problem', moving heavy furniture) i would have a very comfortable nest egg.

Have any of you thought about the difficulty we sometimes have being sure of gender online when someone has not listed on their profile and have not given clues like talking about giving birth or identifying their significant other by gender associated words like husband/wife?
 
A husband and wife walk into a store.
The husband points and says,"Look, there's where they keep the pots and pans."
3 weeks later, the wife told him how many men and women there were in the store, what they where wearing and what they bought. 😊
 
I think the question should be "Who is smarter, Men or Women". without a doubt, Women are not as smart as men. If they were smarter women wouldn't get married. They don't get paid enough to raise an idiot. Case closed!
 
Beezer said:
I've stated this before...

A man marries a woman hoping she'll never change...a woman marries a man hoping she'll change him.

I still think there's a ring of truth to this...not in every case...but in quite a few.
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I can't remember if it was Jordan Peterson or Ben Shapiro who said "Marriage was a great calming influence for men. It taught them to be a provider/protecter/guide and mentor"

It's not the woman who changes the male, but the "experiences" in the marriage. Vows, resolving problems, issues, celebrating triumphs and losses, learning it's a "Partnership" not a slave/master existence.

Marriage refines a man, he becomes more than just a boy.
 

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