Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Understanding Women Lesson 101

I have heard it so many times that Men do not understand Women. They discuss it with their friends, get exasperated, put up some silly defense against it but fail against the mighty mystery that women are. There are some who try to gather some field data from female friends, the so called "Academic" facts but alas, if only this was sufficient. It is obviously inadequate. Yet, for the benefit of few or many here are some interesting Did you know variety facts for academic purpose.


  • Women Do not like to be compared to other women, even if the name you mouth is a celebrity. Just do not bother comparing us. I am pretty sure this is not the day or age where you can compare us to "the birds, the bees, the petals, the pollen or what not." We may think you look a little like some cute celebrity but we like you even minus the Audi they drive. So just remember do not compare us. Especially do not compare our efforts to anyone else. If we say we don't like driving we mean it, even if your favorite blonde bimbo loves zapping around in her cute yellow Beatle, we don't. We would rather like if you made sure we had a chauffeur driven car.
  • If we call you every day, even to ask whether you have had your dinner, it means we care about you. Even if you don't lust after us like your favorite red haired neighbor, we wouldn't mind two nice words and some thoughtfulness.
  • If we buy you anything nice, accept it with grace and don't call us names for making the effort. Instead take it as a very elaborate hint that we like you & we want to find out whether you like us back. If you do, make an effort, gift us something nice, not necessarily expensive. If you do gift us something out of courtesy don't remind us every opportunity you get that the gift was really an obligation fulfillment. We are not like you. We get it that you don't like us. But we are too decent probably to show you the door.
  • If ask you to make time for us, we do not think we own you. We feel that we may have gained a tiny bit of right on your time. Please don't make such a big deal about having 12 hour long meetings and bad work weeks, we also work and there are pressures in our profession too.
  • If you make an effort and are nice to us for change and we appreciate it, please don't immediately make excuses to prove that the effort was no big deal and the formality of thank you is not necessary. When we say we liked what you did, you can at least smile back and say"My pleasure."
  • If we agree to spend some time alone with you, it means we trust you. Please don't try putting moves on us even if they are really good. We like you already, don't try so hard. Just make us feel comfortable and you will find you can relax too.
  • When you know we like you or are falling for you tell us that you are engaged, or married, in case we were not paranoid enough to ask you. Forgetting to tell a woman that you are already with someone else, and leading her on is pretty up there, with psychotic behavior and repressed personality disorders.In short it is weird.
  • If you have us as friends, be thankful that you have someone who understands you even though you don't believe it is possible.
Hope that was helpful. Basic premise of writing this is that Men actually care enough to bother understanding women.

2 comments:

Suchismita said...

A very well written 101, for all intents and purposes. Hell, why do they call us complicated when we have such little demands?

Rwitabhadra Chatterjee Dasgupta (RITZ) said...

love ur style of writing. and agree to most of it almost.men in their bid to understand women, create such scenes, that it would almost make a few mini series'. if women are difficult to understand, then i can safely say men are impossible to understand. and men might make an effort here and there to understand women, but women have to understand men, in every unspoken syllable of theirs and almost in every step they take. loved the way u addressed the issue.