From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Sat Aug 11 2001 - 10:06:23 MDT
Spike Jones <spike66@attglobal.net> asks:
> Observation: for some reason which I have never
> understood, women seem to grok men's feelings
> better than men grok women's feelings. Loree, someone
> who has been both may have a unique insight on this.
> Anyone else is welcome to comment on this observation.
> Does it ring true to you?
Easy. No problem. In caveman ancestor days, the males would hunt, mostly
silently, while the females would gather, and keep a continual
conversational stream amongst themselves as a monitor against danger.
The topic of conservation (then as now): men, of course.
Then again, I doubt males would have much feelings about anything
(except the joy of the kill and eating tasty red meat) were it not for
women. I wouldn't doubt that most if all not emotions derive from the
need for a female to have a protector when pregnant or toting small
children. The earliest forms of female manipulation of men probably came
about after the original father-protector was killed and another man had
to be convinced that somehow he was the father of her children and had
an obligation to protect them.
So there,
-Mike
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