Do you think that men are simple?

• Kollin wrote on 2012-04-15 16:08
  I was having this discussion with a friend. She said that the quickest way to winning over a man is through sex and food, because we are so simple. Makes me wonder if we are so simple, why are women not in charge. Perhaps that is why for the longest women were not allowed to have an education or any other rights, because we knew they would control us.
  
  For me, throw in sleep along with sex and food and you win. I will admit I am a simple person. :point:
• EndlessDreams wrote on 2012-04-15 16:10
  Religion has suppressed women's rights/education for the longest time. Women's right/education (and gender equality) is only a relatively recent liberal idea.
• Bride wrote on 2012-04-15 16:15
  I have no idea, I don't wanna generalize.. I've only dated one man and I consider him a pretty simple person. I like simplicity in a person though :)
• TA wrote on 2012-04-15 16:18
  Scientifically, "yes." It's based on the way our minds function. We just have a different way of processing information.
  
  The simplest way I can explain it is like this:
  

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  Men tend to think about one thing at a time, and that tends to be it. Sometimes, thinking about nothing at all.
  
  Women on the other hand, tend to think about dozens of things at a time, many times jumping from one to the next in rapid succession.
• Rin wrote on 2012-04-15 16:20
  You act like simplicity's a bad thing.
• TA wrote on 2012-04-15 16:27
  Oh and by the way, my yes answer, it is a yes in regards to thought processing, but not to individuality or intelligence, or any other aspect, really. Men actually tend to be much better at certain subjects because of it.
• MareneCorp wrote on 2012-04-15 16:29
  Simple? :lol:
  The majority of us are, yes. Pretty much only those idiots wanting sex are simple, but that's a growing population. I'll leave it at that.
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-04-15 16:35
  Well if I don't want anything aside of sex and food out of the relationship, then that's obviously a guaranteed way to get me. But since that isn't the case, it does not suffice. In fact you're very unlikely to even be able to lure me with that if I don't think that you'd be able to fulfill other critical criteria.
  It's a bleeding tautology that men out for sex will be easily won over with sex, but if she wants to tell me that men per se can get won over with that, then she better turn up with some seriously well-fundamented hypothesis.
  
  

  Quote from TA;839149:

  Scientifically, "yes." It's based on the way our minds function. We just have a different way of processing information.
  
  The simplest way I can explain it is like this:
  

  [Image: http://i.minus.com/ibuo74qErnU0KF.png]

  
  
  Men tend to think about one thing at a time, and that tends to be it. Sometimes, thinking about nothing at all.
  
  Women on the other hand, tend to think about dozens of things at a time, many times jumping from one to the next in rapid succession.

  
  So concentrating on things one at a time means being dumb and incompetent at choosing the other parent of your children and future life support? That "easy explanation" doesn't explain anything, you'd have to take the complicated approach.
  
  And I wonder how much of that black & white phenomenon is actually just a tendency~
• TA wrote on 2012-04-15 16:45
  You're assuming a lot there that I didn't say. Please don't assume things.
• BizarreJuju wrote on 2012-04-15 17:03
  Im kinda iffy on this subject. I hear people say "you can win men over sex" but wouldnt it be the same for women (some women)? I also think this "simple thinking" is based off the person's personality and if they choose to "think beyond".
  
  Then again I meet guys who think very complex and girls who have the most simple mind (to the point I ended up using her to joke around). Probably they are just rare to find or society taught people that way to think (Men=Simple / Women=Complex)
  
  I believe the physical structure plays off into the way they think. For a fact, men dont need to worry too much about their body compared to women (menstruation, breast, fashion, diet, few unnecessary hair growing on body, etc) that knocks out few things to worry about for men.
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-04-15 19:26

  Quote from TA;839156:

  You're assuming a lot there that I didn't say. Please don't assume things.

  
  Ah I understand now. I've been thinking you were referring to the OP's core issue of mating behaviour.
  
  I don't think a rather straightforward approach at cognitive thinking makes thinking "simple" though, and certainly not by extension "man" as such. That does seem like an inductive fallacy.
• Maenad wrote on 2012-04-15 19:34
  Men are complicated things. They're like a Rubik's cube that's in such a pattern that it's impossible to solve. Outwardly simple, but when you get down and try to work with them, you eventually have to give up.
• Xemnas wrote on 2012-04-15 19:43
  Oddly enough I'm always thinking of several things at once, which constantly makes me forget what I was planning to do. It's also really hard for me not to wander off in conversations or when I'm writing.(for example I want to keep adding to this post even though I have nothing else to say, I just feel it needs to be longer)
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-04-15 19:43

  Quote from Araria;839237:

  Men are complicated things. They're like a Rubik's cube that's in such a pattern that it's impossible to solve. Outwardly simple, but when you get down and try to work with them, you eventually have to give up.

  
  Most higher mammals are.
• Mentosftw wrote on 2012-04-15 19:57
  I think the whole reasoning behind the sex and food thing would be that if someone would be willing to do that for him, he'd probably feel it would be out of love right?
  
  We all want to be loved and no one wants to be lonely =.=