Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Women

Women are weird. It's taken me so long to work out how to deal with them... But it's impossible. They have more signals than the variations sign language has regionally, and worldwide. How come every time a girl says "I'm fine" they're not? Why does "yes" mean "no" and "no" mean "no" but sometimes "yes, really" and sometimes "yes" means "yes" as well and "I don't know" sometimes means "no" (when you think it's "yes") and the rest of the time it's "yes" but because you thought she didn't really know and that for once she was telling the truth you upset a whole number of people for taking someone's word for once?!

The Bible isn't any help on women either. I thought maybe...Seeing as God created women and has written a lot on marriage and relationships in the Bible...There would be something he'd say about that kind of thing...But no! There is not one thing said about how women think. No examples, nothing. Plenty of examples about men and their mind sets and how they mess up, but the only stories about women are the prostitutes or the mothers. No one worth seeking after, really.

You tell them all of your concern about the fact that you can't understand them, and they say "but I can read you"...And that's just silly! Of course women can read men...Men are black and white. "Yes" really means "Yes", "no" really means "no", and "I don't know" probably means he hasn't understood the question. They will try and please a woman, and they will be mistoken for liking a girl a bit too much..."We should meet up" usually means "we should meet up"...Or "I'd quite like to get to know you better, you seem nice" not "I really like you and I'm going to ask you out for real so we can start dating, courting, and probably marry, but let's start with some food". If a man likes someone they usually avoid them until they're confident enough to tell them, and it's usually too late but they don't care because they don't have to worry about it any more!

It's been one of those weeks.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ah, what larks. I'm sorry, on behalf of womankind, for our wonderful intracacies... The brilliant thing is (God's great sense of humour), often we don't realise you're being straightforward - because we aren't - and we think you're really hiding something or don't love us anymore because we'd say something and mean something else and quite frankly you should be able to read the signals (afterall we've told you enough times)(a short course in deciphering sighs would be useful, I'm sure); add hormones to the equation and you come up with that classic conversation, shortly followed by crying and slammed doors:

us: what are you thinking?
you: Nothing.
us: No, really, what are you thinking? You can tell me.
you: Nothing.

And you're thinking, literally, of nothing; or maybe what it would be like to be a fly, but gutting to have such a short life expectancy, and we think you're thinking "you're too much for me; your vulnerability is now suffocating, you're just like your mother; I should have seen this coming."

Cue "you never communicate"; "why won't you talk to me anymore"; "do you still love me", and the aforenmentioned tears and loose hinges. Love it.

Anonymous said...

Tobes, mate you aren't the first to think that, and neither will you be the last! In fact i know for a fact that right now we are both in a place we we whole heartedly agree with what you wrote, and yet it is still completely and utterly unhelpful!!

Oh and i clicked some more so you owe me another pint :o)