Are women more sensitive?

[DAD68]

I live across the street from this couple and every weekday morning I hear her leave and she says to her guy "I love you" but I never hear the guy respond.
All I see is when the lady drives away, the guy flicks the porch light a few times.

Is that his way of proclaiming love?

What's the deal with guys being less sensitive?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

I live across the street from this couple and every weekday morning I hear her leave and she says to her guy "I love you" but I never hear the guy respond.
All I see is when the lady drives away, the guy flicks the porch light a few times.

Is that his way of proclaiming love?

What's the deal with guys being less sensitive?

He flicks the porch light a few times? He must be signaling the garbage man that the coast is clear for a 69 BJ session

 

[Boxlicker101]

I live across the street from this couple and every weekday morning I hear her leave and she says to her guy "I love you" but I never hear the guy respond.
All I see is when the lady drives away, the guy flicks the porch light a few times.

Is that his way of proclaiming love?

What's the deal with guys being less sensitive?

Generally speaking, women are more sensitive, but it's an individual thing. It's a matter of upbringing. I was always told: "Big boys don't cry!" and I took that to heart. Of course, girls were told to let it out.

Just because you hear her but not him doesn't mean that much. It's entirely possible he whispers of his love, thereby making it more personal, while she shouts to the world.

 

[penandpaper]

Not sure less sensitive is the right way to put it. Perhaps, less extroverted in response to highly emotional subject matter.

Remember, from day one men and women are treated differently. I know I may get some flack for that, but I'm talking subtle differences. People treat children differently based on gender. It seems to be innate. From the store clerk talking to your boy about his plastic football to the waiter at the fancy resaurant telling your daughter how pretty her pink dress is to the dad who tells his boy to tough it out to the dad who gives his daughter a hug when she scrapes her knee. If you raise them differently, you're goin to have them respond differently as well.

I'm sure there's a case for hardwiring as well, but it seems to me cultural differences can reroute some of that.

 

[CharleyH]

He flicks the porch light a few times? He must be signaling the garbage man that the coast is clear for a 69 BJ session

ROFLOL

 

[sr71plt]

Maybe he's just being more honest than she is.

 

[CharleyH]

I live across the street from this couple and every weekday morning I hear her leave and she says to her guy "I love you" but I never hear the guy respond.
All I see is when the lady drives away, the guy flicks the porch light a few times.

Is that his way of proclaiming love?

What's the deal with guys being less sensitive?

I don't think men in general are less sensitive than women. Every man I have ever known has feelings like me and research reports that women tend to cope better with the death of a long term spouse than men.

I think that 'some' men are more prone (perhaps because of the whole machismo culture that still exists (especially, but not exclusively in NA) to hold their feelings in. Saying I love you to someone you love (no matter your gender) should be easy. In this particular situation, I would love to think he flicks the lights on and off as either a personal in-joke or endearment that she is well aware of (we can't know their little jokes and endearments), but one thing is for sure, DAD68, you sure must spend a lot of time at your window.

 

[sr71plt]

but one thing is for sure, DAD68, you sure must spend a lot of time at your window.

Maybe, in Jenny's vein, waiting for "the signal"? (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

 

[CharleyH]

Maybe, in Jenny's vein, waiting for "the signal"? (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

*chuckles*

 

[rgraham666]

Men aren't more sensitive than women. Both genders cover a range of sensitivity.

The difference is that men that show their sensitivity are often looked down upon. By women.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Men aren't more sensitive than women. Both genders cover a range of sensitivity.

The difference is that men that show their sensitivity are often looked down upon. By women.

Not just looked down on, but taken advantage of.

 

[sadangel]

Men aren't more sensitive than women. Both genders cover a range of sensitivity.

The difference is that men that show their sensitivity are often looked down upon. By women.

Not just looked down on, but taken advantage of.

Not all woman are like this. Some of us appreciate a sensitive man. Some of us appreciate a man that can show emotions. That isn't afraid to cry. I'm one of them. At least I try to be.

 

[bronzeage]

I live across the street from this couple and every weekday morning I hear her leave and she says to her guy "I love you" but I never hear the guy respond.
All I see is when the lady drives away, the guy flicks the porch light a few times.

Is that his way of proclaiming love?

What's the deal with guys being less sensitive?

I'm not sure what definition of the word "sensitive" we are using.

Is the woman hurt by his lack of response and he doesn't care? Maybe he is so choked up to hear her say "I love you," and can't respond.

I don't see this anecdote as evidence of any degree of sensitivity, or lack of it.

The last time I cried in front of my wife, it scared the hell out of her. LSU managed to score in the last 40 seconds of the game to beat Alabama. She kept asking me what was wrong, wanting to do something.

Through my tears, all I could say was, "It's the Alabama game."

This was something to which she was completely insensitive.

 

[Guest]

I live across the street from this couple and every weekday morning I hear her leave and she says to her guy "I love you" but I never hear the guy respond.
All I see is when the lady drives away, the guy flicks the porch light a few times.

Is that his way of proclaiming love?

What's the deal with guys being less sensitive?

Why are you spying on your neighbors?

 

[NoJo]

Why are you spying on your neighbors?

I'd spy on you if you were my neighbour

 

[Guest]

I'd spy on you if you were my neighbour

I've been spying on you for a long time.

 

[sr71plt]

The last time I cried in front of my wife, it scared the hell out of her. LSU managed to score in the last 40 seconds of the game to beat Alabama. She kept asking me what was wrong, wanting to do something.

I'm always crying at sad or sentimental movies, and I turn and look at my wife and she's stoney faced.

You (the general "you," not you secificically, Bronze) want insensitive? My wife once got up in the morning (she had to be at work before I had to be there) and left a dead cat in the bed for me to find. Don't talk to me in sweeping generalizations about women being more sensitive then men.

 

[bronzeage]

I'm always crying at sad or sentimental movies, and I turn and look at my wife and she's stoney faced.

You (the general "you," not you secificically, Bronze) want insensitive? My wife once got up in the morning (she had to be at work before I had to be there) and left a dead cat in the bed for me to find. Don't talk to me in sweeping generalizations about women being more sensitive then men.

I don't want to sound insensitive, but were you keeping her around just for the material?

 

[NoJo]

I've been spying on you for a long time.

That's so fucking creepy and gives me a hardon

 

[Guest]

That's so fucking creepy and gives me a hardon

Me, too.

 

[sr71plt]

I don't want to sound insensitive, but were you keeping her around just for the material?

Well, she also had a good job (and, now, a good annuity), she fixes everything that's broken, she looks like a million dollars, and, most important, she has her thumb on all of the finances.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Not sure less sensitive is the right way to put it. Perhaps, less extroverted in response to highly emotional subject matter.

Remember, from day one men and women are treated differently. I know I may get some flack for that, but I'm talking subtle differences. People treat children differently based on gender. It seems to be innate. From the store clerk talking to your boy about his plastic football to the waiter at the fancy resaurant telling your daughter how pretty her pink dress is to the dad who tells his boy to tough it out to the dad who gives his daughter a hug when she scrapes her knee. If you raise them differently, you're goin to have them respond differently as well.

I'm sure there's a case for hardwiring as well, but it seems to me cultural differences can reroute some of that.

Let me help you out with GENDER and SEX. You seem confused.

Your sex is determined by your 46th pair of chomosomes; your chromosomes dont give a fuck about how PC you are. GENDER was invented by a nice perfesser for people who believe that PUSSIES AND TITS ARE WHAT LITTLE GIRLS ARE MADE OF, and LITTLE BOYS ARE MADE SNIPS AND SNAILS AND PUPPY DOG TAILS. That's is, youre nuthin more than youre sheet metal.

Going much further back, GENDER originally meant breeding cattle, then it became a euphemism for human coitus. Much later it was used to identify pronouns. About 1955 the perfesser was wanting a sexless word that people could use to arbitrarily define their non-biological sentiments about themselves, and he pciked GENDER becuz gender is used to define pronouns in English; words dont express biological sex.

 

[bronzeage]

Well, she also had a good job (and, now, a good annuity), she fixes everything that's broken, she looks like a million dollars, and, most important, she has her thumb on all of the finances.

Dude, you are working too hard for the money.

 

[lance gt]

If i understand it correctly, women run on emotions and men run on logic. Women will respond to emotional stimuli more than men as it touches their senses more easily and affects them greater in that degree. Men, being logical, will only respond if it makes any sense to them and br sensitized by how it affects them. Like Bronze watching Alabama win. It made sense to him that his team won because he was emotionally attached in a logical way and he cried. It doesn't have to make sense to a woman, it just as to make her emotional. Me personally, I can be just as sensitive as a woman at times and be just as logical as a man, just depends on what's happening.

 

[NoJo]

If i understand it correctly, women run on emotions and men run on logic. Women will respond to emotional stimuli more than men as it touches their senses more easily and affects them greater in that degree. Men, being logical, will only respond if it makes any sense to them and br sensitized by how it affects them. Like Bronze watching Alabama win. It made sense to him that his team won because he was emotionally attached in a logical way and he cried. It doesn't have to make sense to a woman, it just as to make her emotional. Me personally, I can be just as sensitive as a woman at times and be just as logical as a man, just depends on what's happening.

I run on alcohol, but not very far