Exactly! (as I sit here choking on a Cheezit). Women read complexity into the simplest things...
Have you ever been around a group of women talking about 'their guys?' They replay to the group-- every move, smile, gesture, word (not sentence here-- EACH WORD!).The FBI isn't as clue driven and the CIA isn't as stealth at cracking codes. These women are totally determined to extrapolate every bit of unseen data that is the puzzle of the man in their life.
And sometimes, a guy is just a guy. And a girl is just a girl.
And sometimes, a guy is just a guy. And a girl is just a girl... and it's the dog who is farting.
Women start doing this at age four, at tea parties with their fathers, their teddy bears, and Leo the stuffed frog. By the time they get to sixth grade they are experts - by the time they are in their twenties, they are performing CIA-level psych-screening.
The average man in his twenties is still struggling to talk to Leo the stuffed frog.
Men vastly underestimate the complexity and depth of a woman's social programming. Women vastly overestimate a man's. The male brain is certainly capable of handling that level of complexity, but only for things like C#, EverQuest, and baseball statistics.
Most of us would laugh at the idea we are sending a woman a subtle signal about the status of the relationship by raising an eyebrow and squaring our shoulders away from her...we are probably just trying to sneak a glance at the hot bartender without getting caught. ;)