How do we understand men?

By JB
India
May 31, 2009 2:00pm CST
Well, they say women are hard to understand. But I feel in some ways, men are hard to understand as well. It's not particularly about anything they say or do, but it's just that men and women tend to think a bit differently. So how do we understand men. A lot of men say that they are pretty simple creatures. But to women (atleast most of us), the very fact that they are simple is so complex!!! So how do we figure out what they are trying to convey in those many unspoken words and how do we understand what they feel or want?
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@jcc51189 (78)
• United States
1 Jun 09
My girlfriend and I have his discussion often. I say that men are simple minded, we are not that complex. I see women as being too complex, sometimes annoyingly so, but since I assume they are all like that I accept to tolerate it. I have come to the conclusion that I will never perfectly understand women. I think women think too critically of everything, so when something that is simple to understand comes along, they want to over-think it, which they should not, but they do anyways. You want to believe that men are more complex than they really are but they are not. This will probably never be resolved so what men and women must do is just have discussions about this when it comes up but understand that they will never agree on a solution.
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• India
1 Jun 09
I agree that women do tend to over-think on things. I've been told that pretty often and at times when I try to put myself into a man's shoes, I do feel pretty stupid. But I would rather not want to over-react and get into some issue. I would rather want to step back and think like a man when dealing with a man. Is there something particular that can be done? Is there some particular emotion or feeling in women that needs to be supressed in order to think like men in certain situations?
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
1 Jun 09
Some women can be quite simple but they are all different from men, that is the nature of the species. Our socialisation ensures that we are totally different since both genders are brought up to be totally different. The only way to understand any other human being is to communicate. That way we can each learn what the other likes, desires, wants, needs, thinks etc. The key to relationships is to respect each others needs and learn to compromise where possible to fit together.
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• China
1 Jun 09
I am a man ,i don't know why you feel that the men are hard to understand, actually,many men are very simple?direct,they would directly tell you his ideas and feeling. Do you have a bad luck and just meeting one man who hard to understand? or he just have a bad mood?
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• India
1 Jun 09
I agree with you that men are much simpler creatures. But the very fact that they are simpler is what makes it so complex. Women have a different thinking pattern - we pick up tiny little feelings and things that happen around us. Men are not that sensitive to their environment. No I havent had a bad time with anyone. I enjoy a pretty good relationship with all the men that I know. But through the years I've noticed that it's quite hard to bridge the gap in understand from both sides and I would like to know how the male thought pattern goes.
• Philippines
1 Jun 09
It will be a neverending quest of understanding men and it will take thousand years I guess to fully uncover the truth behing a man's brain, body, heart and those emotions that they do hide especially from us and even from themselves. They are so complex that made men very challenging to handle and made men and women attract to each other. They are not hard to understand, it is just they are not as expressive and emotional as women can be.
• India
1 Jun 09
Is there any way to draw them out where it comes to their emotions or things they dont express?
@jellymonty (2352)
1 Jun 09
I'll tell you why men are difficult to understand.. THEY ARE FROM MARS!! A planet that only has single highways, not able to multi-task and always forgetting the important things we women consider valuable!... They only think with what we thought was a brain but no.. it that thing in between their legs!!
@Archie0 (5652)
1 Jun 09
I can definetly see how that can get annoying, he is acting like a boy, instead of being a man and takin charge of what he wants, I understand he probly doesnt want to pressure you, but you can only take so much, as for what you should expect he might be more comfortable with knowing that you actually do have feelings for him, maybe then he will lighten up alittle, If not then it comes to what you can and cant deal with. good luck!!!
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@icesmile (7160)
• Romania
31 May 09
Never we can t understand man as they can t understand us. They act as instincts, we act as feelings, they are more realistic, we are more dreamers. Is a big difference how they think, they like to know clear things, we want to understand all words meanings. Is and will be hard to understand one other
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• India
1 Jun 09
So is there some mid-point where both men and women can meet up and say "hey - I understand you..."?
@roseyroser (1059)
• United States
1 Jun 09
It can be very hard to understand men. I agree, it is because men and women are very different. I wish I could be a guy for like a day and see how they think. Steve Harvey wrote a book called "Act like a lady, Think like a man". It's a very interesting book. I have no idea if it's true or not, but since the author is a man who has had experience with lots of different people, he may actually be right!
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• India
1 Jun 09
Wow. I'm going to get myself that book. Sound like just the one I need. Thanks a ton...
• India
2 Jun 09
Maybe this article might shed light on this matter. http://www.wikihow.com/Understand-Men
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
1 Jun 09
They are just as strange to us as we are to them. The only way to learn what they want etc is to talk to them about it and work out a way to live together. That is what my partner and I did. Communication is the key and it is the only way to succeed. The only thing that works is to learn what each person likes and dislikes and honour it. It can be simple things like liking quiet in the morning. I do not think this is a particularly male thing but every person is different and you have to work out their individual needs.
• Canada
31 May 09
I think the reason women can't understand men is because they are just too simple. I think it's hard for us to wrap our heads around the fact that it is possible to be so simple. Women are always looking for a hidden meaning in mens words, when really they are just straight forward and telling the truth, or lying. We take what they say and do and how they think and try to make something else of it instead of just accepting thats how it really is. But with females there is generally much more going on, and thats why guys can't understand women. They don't get how someone could be so complex and confusing in everyday life. But thats the beauty of being different, lol.
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• India
1 Jun 09
It's great to be different. But wish there was a guide book by the numbers to help each understand the other....
@Dorrdavy (275)
• Jamaica
1 Jun 09
i must admit, they are not very hard to figure out.
• China
1 Jun 09
people always like that,no matter men or women ,life is always like this.isn't good?
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@rexertea (117)
• India
1 Jun 09
Well, woman are harder to understand but Men are more harder to understand, if you are not able to read his body language. Man say so many things, they may say lie with an open body language, and girls often fall to that. What I have found out is that when women are not in love with a man then she reads a man a bit better.As soon as she falls in love, woman do not want to read that man, simply because they do not like to think any negative about him and that's where things go wrong.
• India
1 Jun 09
I'm a man from India and I wish to respond to your question. Man and women often tend to show what others want to see in them, when a person likes or loves an individual he or she often misses this mask. Men are generally less complex then women, they often come out in the open when you get to know them, but people who pretend to fake a relationship are often not easily understood. The best way to understand a person is to know their past, it can be their family and friends and experience in their life, this gives lot of insight into one's feelings and reactions to events in life. One should to devoid of any emotions when understanding or judging a person (emotions often cloud our judgement)and again this depends on our own state of mind and our intellectual ability.
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@NXiong (2)
• United States
1 Jun 09
i think both womens and mens are hard to understand i don't know why but that the ways how life just is??!!! neither is rite or wrong!!!
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@NXiong (2)
• United States
1 Jun 09
i think both womens and mens are hard to understand i just don't know why but that the way how life go!!!?? neithere is rite or wrong!!!