
January 2nd, 2003, 10:19 PM
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Re: Advise
Hey guys. As Phil McGraw used to say on the Oprah Winfrey show...
"Men do not get it. And it is not that they almost get it, they just do not get it!"
In comparison to the females of our species, men are incredibly dumb.
Girls start experimenting about relationships almost as soon as they can walk. They play with dolls, tea sets and playout conflict situations.
What do young boys do? We play with toy cars & trucks and resolve conflicts by totalling a truck.
This carries through to adult life. Some girls continue to playout situations with real men.
And some men still play with (real) cars and trucks, resolve conflicts with each other with their fists and occasionally totalling a real truck.
We just do not "get" what is actually going on. Worse, we do not have a clue.
As a consequence of the different approaches in early childhood, women generally have much better verbal and relationship skills than men do. Some experts even believe that the advantage may be genetic as well.
In the past, women would use their superior interpersonal skills to keep the marriage together while the men would "bring the bacon home"
But now, women are no longer financially dependant on men for "the bacon". They can have their own well-paying job to support themselves and if worse comes to worse, there is always social welfare to fall back on. Also, a divorced woman no longer has the negative stigma of being a "divorcee" attached to her which was a major barrier to remarrying half a century ago. That's assuming she could get a divorce in the first place since it was very expensive and she had to have "grounds" for it.
So women no longer "need" a man for financial support, social standing or whatever.
They want something more...they want an interactive relationship!
Huh????
An interactive relationship? What is that?
And how do we have one, when we haven't developed the skills for an interactive relationship?
It is like playing SE4 against a baby brother who is only six years old.
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Inscription at the Delphic Oracle.
Plutarch Morals
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