Posted on 07/13/2011 9:43:33 AM PDT by freespirited
If you've ever spent time telling a guy a story or asking him a question, only to get a blank stare in response, then you know that there's definitely truth to this claim that guys weren't designed to hear us speak. I had a similar experience at brunch this weekend when I was going on and on to a male friend about something I can't even remember anymore. When I got to the end of my rant and finally asked him if he agreed with me on the topic at hand, his answer was, "sorry, I really wasn't listening to a word you said."
Even though I was incredibly frustrated with him, he did bring up a good point, asking, "would you rather I lie and say I heard you?" This little exchange, as insignificant as it was, did make me wonder exactly what it is that makes it so easy for men to tune us out.
As it turns out, a study published in the journal NeuroImage sought to answer the very same question. Researchers found that there are major differences in the way male and female brains process voice sounds. Different brain regions are activated in men, depending on whether they're hearing a male or female voice.
Apparently, the vibration and number of sound waves in our voice makes it harder for men to decipher what we're saying. When it comes to processing a woman's voice, they use the more complex auditory part of the brain that processes music, not human voices. But the guys in the study could easily hear and understand other men’s voices as speech because that uses a simpler brain mechanism at the back of the brain.
So, next time you want to get angry and yell at a guy for "not listening," cut him a little slack – his brain just wasn't made to hear you. My suggestion would be to speak slowly and get to your point fast.
“Parents are not interested in justice — they want QUIET!” - Bill Cosby
What was that? I guess I can’t read it either.
I try - I really do.
But it’s almost impossible sometimes.
I go “Uh huh. Ohh! Umm. How about that? Ahhh...”
The War Dept. caught on to me years ago.
Now she stops in the middle of a sentence and says:
“WHAT DID I JUST SAY?”
Sometimes I can actually pull a word or two out of my subconcious.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Explains a lot of things.
Other rules that take a while to learn:
Women are attracted to a challenge, they don't know why and they will will never admit it. puppy-dogs with flowers acting needy terrify them.
Women will (generally) set their minimum standards on appearance based on what they can get. So your chance with that hot model is, well buy that lottery ticket
Woman all claim they want honesty and no games, and then they all lie (during courtship) and they treat all their romantic relationships as a HUGE game getting girlfriend advice for the next move, so learn to read between the lines
NEVER go to a woman for romantic advice, that is the death kiss
Do what now?
Or how about the voice on cars, “Door Ajar.....Door Ajar.....CLOSE THE DAMN DOOR, FOOL!”
The problem is that if I discuss this scientific study with my wife, I’m too likely to tune-out of the conversation after about 5 minutes.
What did you say?
LOL!
A Garmin, right?
I changed mine to a male voice.
“She” makes me want to smash my GPS with a rock.
:D
My wife says I never pay attention to her....at least I think that’s what she said.
CONGRATULATIONS. Very impressive indeed.
Many to most? Women seem to have a . . . genetic . . . NEED
to think with their mouth moving.
Kind of like they can’t think unless they are hearing their self generated wind blow.
Sometimes, it has been useful to note in the beginning that I have about a 1 min or 3 min or 5 min interest in a given topic or at a given time.
Somtimes it’s not the blather about little of any significance that’s so much an annoyance as it is the hostility that men fail to consider the “nothing” SOMETING CRUCIAL like the women seem to AT THAT MOMENT.
God must have been laughing for eons at the mystifying dance He set up between men and women.
I've noticed the same thing - I thought it was a job requirement or something that they had to have fast shrill teeny-bopper voices to be a newsreader, but maybe it's the technology like you say.
Either way, I cringe when they talk.
Once you hit them with the club and start dragging them back to the cave who cares.
if a baseball or football game or anything from ESPN is on, my husband doesn't “hear” me at all.
I get so frustrated I change his sleep number on his side of the Select Comfort bed.
My, my, my. Next I'll start pinching money from his wallet.
The essential difference between men and women and their relationships, on every a level:
“Women want to be understood, men just want to be accepted.”©Wuli 2011
“The male no doubt could sense this.”
Bwawawawwawawawaw...........
What was the 'condition' the Adam was initially created???? Something was taken from him to make the woman. So what are 'men' missing they love to itch about when they look across the table????? I am sure the Heavenly Father gets a good laugh at His creation, but it is about their arrogant folly and NOT what He set in motion.
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