Men stupid and women crazy
Back in the day (high school), a friend of mine and I were just talking, shooting the shit. Holly was her name. Somehow we got onto the track of her thinking that men do the stupidest things. She concluded more or less that all men must be invariably dumb (I think she was fighting with her boyfriend). I retorted by stating that this was natural and asked her to explain why women don't do dumb thing per se, but a lot of stuff that often doesn't make a lick of sense. I came to the conclusion that all women were insane. After going back and forth, we came up with a postulate that all men were, in some form or another, invariably stupid and that all women were, in some form or another, invariably crazy.
Holding everything else constant, we couldn't explain society's behaviour in any other way @ that time. So we just took it as a given, like gravity. As time went on, I used this template to explain much of what was going on around me, but occasionally there were rare exceptions. That's why I call it a postulate and not a law. I could never explain the abnormalities and so for the longest time never revised our conclusion.
Then one day @ work @ DHL, it hit me. I was just sitting @ my computer watching the day unfold, when an epiphany hit me like a bolt of lightening and the theory changed. Under the previous assumption we argued that men had perspective but lack of intelligence, and women has intelligence, but a fleeting view of reality. I realized that this was a convenient way of looking @ things, but just wasn't totally true.
So the new theory that I have from that day is as follows: Men and women have roughly the same level of intelligence. It's simply that women process information many times faster than men do. It was this that caused women to "seem" crazy because since they thought about things much more often, they sometimes overanalyzed and that caused them to see things that weren't there, second guess themselves, etc. After being surrounded by women forever, I've heard more than a few times when a girl's explaining something and my thought process would have ended a lot sooner than her. Also, men "seem" dumber because, relatively, they're thinking slower than women. That's why we can't think of convincing excuses on the spot, or why common sense things that women get mad @ us for oversighting don't hit us immediately- we don't give it as much thought.
This is all just another theory as well, not a fact or doctrine. And of course there are going to be exceptions to it as well. But it made more sense to me than the other theory. Any thoughts on this?
Holding everything else constant, we couldn't explain society's behaviour in any other way @ that time. So we just took it as a given, like gravity. As time went on, I used this template to explain much of what was going on around me, but occasionally there were rare exceptions. That's why I call it a postulate and not a law. I could never explain the abnormalities and so for the longest time never revised our conclusion.
Then one day @ work @ DHL, it hit me. I was just sitting @ my computer watching the day unfold, when an epiphany hit me like a bolt of lightening and the theory changed. Under the previous assumption we argued that men had perspective but lack of intelligence, and women has intelligence, but a fleeting view of reality. I realized that this was a convenient way of looking @ things, but just wasn't totally true.
So the new theory that I have from that day is as follows: Men and women have roughly the same level of intelligence. It's simply that women process information many times faster than men do. It was this that caused women to "seem" crazy because since they thought about things much more often, they sometimes overanalyzed and that caused them to see things that weren't there, second guess themselves, etc. After being surrounded by women forever, I've heard more than a few times when a girl's explaining something and my thought process would have ended a lot sooner than her. Also, men "seem" dumber because, relatively, they're thinking slower than women. That's why we can't think of convincing excuses on the spot, or why common sense things that women get mad @ us for oversighting don't hit us immediately- we don't give it as much thought.
This is all just another theory as well, not a fact or doctrine. And of course there are going to be exceptions to it as well. But it made more sense to me than the other theory. Any thoughts on this?
posted by Ray at 2:35 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home