Careful, ladies, they can hear you… sometimes
Writing by treason on Saturday, 23 of June , 2007 at 11:31 am
We were at the park with the dog, watching a father and his three kids on the playground. The two little girls were running in circles, climbing, sliding, jumping, skipping – all the while talking to and over each other non-stop. Two little chatterboxes, never ever stopping to take a breath.
The little boy, on the other hand, was off by himself, staggering around the play structure, ricocheting off the metal bars, never uttering a word. Like many little boys, it is possible that he hadn’t yet figured out speech. My parents, for instance, thought my older brother was retarded because it took so long for him to finally say something that sounded like English. All the time that he was making those strange animal sounds, he was absorbing the world around him. He remembered tiny obscure details – probably in order to blackmail family members at a later date. As he grew older, raised around so many females, he learned to dismiss a lot of these details, so much so that he completely forgot that he was related to any of us. Meanwhile, my mother and sisters chatted away, their verbal skills having been mastered long before they could even walk.
This is proof that men and women communicate quite differently. It’s true – there have been countless studies. It’s just one more reason I’m not hoppin’ on the Hillary Train, just so I get to vote for the ovaried candidate. Women complain endlessly about the men who never listen to them and never hear what they say. I will go out on a limb here and say that this is only partly true.
It’s very likely that Hillary was in the room when she was telling Bill to keep his pants zipped and his cigars in the humidor, but somehow he didn’t hear her. Not hear Hillary? I know, I know. It’s like saying you didn’t hear the smoke alarm going off, but if you’re hearing something 24/7 you tend to tune it out. Much like the way women tune out their children. (Admit it, ladies. You go completely deaf, but the rest of us can still hear. Please address this ASAP.)
So we have these women complaining about men who don’t listen and never hear what they say. Republican Senator James Inhofe hears Hillary and Barbara Boxer discussing the Fairness Doctrine and engages them in a conversation. And now they’re pissed off and insisting that this never happened.
The same way women get pissed off when men look at them (you know that worried look they get? just like the one the poor dog gets after you find your favorite book reduced to bite-sized pieces?) and say: “I’m sorry… I have no recollection of that conversation, even though you say we discussed in detail for several hours. And I’m sure we did… my bad. Please don’t hit me.”
Do we really want a woman having these “imaginary” conversations with Putin, Kim Jong Il, Musharaff, Abbas, Karsai, and al-Maliki?
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