We will converse on any topic, anytime.
In fact, we actually enjoy it!
Men, on the other hand, have long been known to be happy with total silence.
We ladies can go into minute details about anything while men's conversations tend to be filled with nods, grunts, and occasional groans.
I just don't get it. If I say to Dave, "Can we talk?", his eyes glaze over, he sighs heavily, and gets a stunned look on his face. If there is a sports event on television when I propose a discussion, he says "ok" but doesn't take his eyes off of the screen! Of course the way to test this is to say something like: "I noticed that your car was in flames down in the garage, is that okay?". If he runs down to check on it, great. If not, that is your clue that he isn't listening. : 0
I also think that most males believe that when a woman wants to talk there must be something wrong. Not true. We just like to announce that a conversation is about to begin. You know, kind of like fair warning.
We don't like to have to condense whatever we are talking about. Embellishment comes with our genetic makeup. The more descriptive words that we can use in a sentence, the better. Add a little drama and change your voice inflection and the whole thing is enhanced. Sometimes one has to go off on another tangent to fully explain something in more detail....but, be patient, we will come back to the original discussion as long as we can remember what we were talking about.
So, can we talk? : )
5 comments:
I can't be certain that what I'm going to say is a Universal Truth. But if it isn't, it's close.
I am one of the few people in the Entire World who start conversations just for the fun of it. 99.23% of the world starts a conversation because they want to manipulate the listener. They want a nod in agreement or the beginning of some form of compliance, which can even be a lack of action.
Those 0.77% of us who converse without seeking something are the slackers of the world. We're happy where we are; we don't care if we are moving forward, backwards, up or down or are totally stagnant. We talk because it's just another opportunity to be languidly funny.
Don't tell me that when a guy initiates a conversation with you you're not thinking, "Okay, what's this guy's pitch gonna be as he tries to get me into bed?" And so it is with men, when a woman starts a conversation: "Okay, what does she want?"
The art of conversation just to be amusing was on its way out. Thank goodness for Blogging!
Every day of my life I try to carry on a conversation with someone who cannot hear. It's real flustrating. After you repeat something forty eleven times....you go into the back room and talk to yourself....LOL
Okay, a slight correction... Yes, there are some people who will initiate or respond to a conversation without thinking about sex or some other form of compliance. But eventually, with any man, sex will become a variable in the equation.
If you were starving to death and a conversational option presented itself, wouldn't you at some point ask about food? See? It's that simple...
...nothing is "that simple" Bertsky.... : )
Well... I understand from Pistolero that it is that simple, men are only interested in sex, sports, and sandwiches... so perhaps Bert is right. If you keep the content of conversation to men to those 3 points, you can probably embellish and talk all you want. As with my Chris, he's the yacker.. talk, talk, talk... he doesn't want anything, except to have someone in the room so he doesn't appear to be talking to himself. Sadly, most of the time he is, because I'm thinking about sex, sports, or sandwiches.. =-).
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