-
TA wrote on 2012-04-15 20:00
Quote from Sumpfkraut;839231:
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.
That's why it was a yes in quotations rather than just a yes. In a manner of speaking it can be true, to a point, but not so much like is implied by the OP.
-
RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-04-15 20:04
Hmm, they can be. There's a weird mix of things going on, imo.
Some people just don't know themselves and thus they think they're a lot more simple than they are, when in fact their actions kind of contradict that. I'd like to think some people are only able to function because they block out their thoughts or their thinking process never covers certain things.
Other guys go out of their way to make things simple and hold back what they know is very complex as they're attempting to use the method that gets the best results, rather than the one that is considered the most "honest/real" or the most morally acceptable. I find myself doing this a lot because I'm not terribly concerned with how I get somewhere so much as I am with how efficiently/economically I do it, the result, and what it means for the future. All that really means is that the middle point is almost meaningless, no matter how much it pisses people off, so long as there are no consequences/guilt. And I hate to say it, but it's more efficient to do many of the things we recognize as "bad" oftentimes.
And don't take what TA said in a bad way. Another way of looking at it is to say that more people should put all of their mental processing power into one thing at a time and really think about what they're doing instead of just thinking a tiny bit about a lot of things at once. If more people really put a lot of thought and focus into their actions, they would almost certainly be in a better place than they are now. See? Now it looks like men have the advantage. It's all based on perspective.
The problem is that people assume that either women are thinking of more things at once and thus must be thinking about them all on the same level as someone focusing on only one, or that because someone is thinking of a large quantity of things, they all must add up to be of greater quality than the one another person is thinking of. This is certainly not the case. If it was, women would be ahead of men by a mile in almost everything. They're simply different ways of doing the same things.
-
Loopulse wrote on 2012-04-15 21:26
Quote from Kollin;839139:
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:
That's quite sexist if I say so myself.
-
Chockeh wrote on 2012-04-15 22:58
I was going to say something, but food and sex will win me over.
-
Ithiliel wrote on 2012-04-15 23:01
I don't think men are simple.
-
Blue Shell wrote on 2012-04-15 23:14
If food wasn't a need, I'd sleep all the time.
-
Episkey wrote on 2012-04-15 23:34
It has nothing to do with sex or gender, but rather one's personal beliefs and morals.
So no, I don't believe men to be simple. Women aren't simple either.
Humans are complex by nature, even within apparent simplicity - there's an underlying complex reason for doing so.
-
Medusa wrote on 2012-04-15 23:36
i think a lot of men are more straightforward than a lot of women, making them seem simpler.
-
Second wrote on 2012-04-16 02:36
Reminds me of this meme
http://qkme.me/35kbjp
-
Zeo wrote on 2012-04-16 16:37
No they aren't. Men are just as complicated as women are too.
And if I have someone who want to date me just for sex and money... I'll instantly reject him. I want a boyfriend who can support me and be here for me whenever I need it, and I have that right now, so I'm satsified.
-
whocares8128 wrote on 2012-04-16 17:35
Quote from Second;839534:
Reminds me of this meme
http://qkme.me/35kbjp
I'm pretty sure all men are perverts though. It's the ones that pretend they aren't that have the weirdest perversions.
:smoke2:
The "dumb" part is something I still don't understand. It's like some "feminists" forget what it means to be a feminist.
[INDENT]"Equal treatment for women"
=/= "Women are better than men"[/INDENT]
-
Leopher wrote on 2012-04-17 08:27
Simple seems to be a comparative word. So, are men "simple" compared to what? Compared to women? I don't know. But compared to a frying pan, I'd say men are pretty complicated.
-
Kaeporo wrote on 2012-04-17 11:01
[video=youtube;DHzjgNoRmjg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHzjgNoRmjg[/video]
-
Elena wrote on 2012-04-17 14:43
Rather than "simple", I'd prefer the word "straightforward". Simple kind of implies they're easy, when really, they may just be putting up less of a front. Women can be paranoid about sheltering their feelings and put up more of a front because of that, I guess.
-
Milk wrote on 2012-04-18 20:27
Quote from Elena;840688:
Rather than "simple", I'd prefer the word "straightforward". Simple kind of implies they're easy, when really, they may just be putting up less of a front. Women can be paranoid about sheltering their feelings and put up more of a front because of that, I guess.
owo Im straight forward?
I say that I'm a lot more different then most generic men.