Men Are Simple: The Diagram

Casey says:
Thu, 10th Sep 20093:43 pm 

Erich, I agree with that. Women think if they ask their guy to “mow the lawn” that he’s going to “take care of the yard” meaning, mow it, pull the weeds, edge it, etc. they think if they ask you to do the main part, that all the other little parts that are associated with the big part [the yard] are going to get taken care of too.

This is definitely the biggest problem between men and women. Men are simple minded and take things as they are (they don’t “read between the lines”, their sense of smell isn’t as strong, and they don’t see color as vividly) Women on the other hand are very broad minded. And if you don’t know how to work with what the others got then there are going to be issues.

Women also assume that if we tell you to “mow the lawn” and you do only that and then an argument ensues afterward because you didn’t do the other things, then the next time we tell you to “mow the lawn” you’ll instinctively do all the other things because you will have remembered the argument from last time. But men don’t work that way either. They don’t remember that, last time, an argument occurred because they don’t hold on to things, especially bad things. Where as women hold onto EVERYTHING. Women are detail oriented, most men are not. Not to mention the woman will probably get upset that you didn’t remember that you guys got into an argument about it before, or that you didn’t remember that when she says “mow the lawn” she actually means “do the yard” because she’ll take it as “you not listening to her”.

This doesn’t make men “stupid” and it doesn’t make women “overbearing” or “crazy” we all just communicate differently and we need to start learning how to deal with one another. Life obviously wasn’t meant to be easy.