My wife says I never hear anything she says. Maybe gene therapy would help?
I’m told the same thing. I think it is a gender issue wherein my wife, as an example, does not speak to be heard, yet is quick to hold everyone accountable for what she supposedly said.
Selective hearing... I have that, too.
Get her some new jeans?..................
Gene therapy for bigger boobs?
I heard you honey, and no, I cant look up at your face.
At least I think that's what she says.
While most of us actually hear female voices more clearly, men’s brains hear women’s voices first as music. But it’s not music. It’s someone giving them a honey-do list. So the brain goes into overdrive trying to analyze what is being said.
Bottom line: Men have to work harder deciphering what women are saying because they use the auditory part of the brain that processes music, not human voices. Men’s brains are not designed to listen to women’s voices. It’s not the pitch of the woman’s voice, but rather the vibration and number of sound waves that cause the problem, notes Discovery News.
But guys have no trouble at all hearing each other because men use a much simpler brain mechanism at the back of the brain to decipher another man’s voice and recognize it as speech.
http://webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com/men/package.jsp?floc=DC-topb&name=fte/womenspeak/womenspeak