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I think it's fair to mention that seeing as men have more muscle mass...they feel the need to move around more. I think it's like this from birth.
I remember teaching Sunday school to 5 or 6 grade school boys, and learning that if you give them something to do with their hands while they're supposed to be listening to you, say like coloring, they will actually absorb information better, than trying to insist that they sit there with hands on the table.
To me, that seems to correlate with what we're talking about here. Maybe men have a fundamental need to MOVE. Females...not so much.
Maybe because women do do it everyday or instead of doing something productive.
I'm thinking married women and/or mothers. Who has time to play video games for 3 hours.
To me, interacting with others is much more productive than trying to kill the opponent on a video game.
Then give me some real examples of men discussing personal situations with their friends!
While generally speaking they don't do so as much as women...... it happens all the time.
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I worked in construction during my mid twenties to early thirties. For years, spent the majority of my time around men.
Men often get together to do things such as watch a football game, but they often get together at a bar as well where other than the occasional pool or dart game is mostly about talking.
Women get together to do things as well, as others have mentioned. But they also get together to talk.
The difference is what they talk about.
Women talk about their lives, and what's going on with the people in their lives.
Men tend to talk about less personal matters. How a hockey team is doing, what a good year some quarterback is having, what happened on a job they were on last month, ...
I once worked side by side with a guy for several months, at lunch in the dry shack with him every day, saw him at the bar on a regular basis, ... never once did he mention that his Dad was dying of cancer and his heart was breaking.
I cannot imagine working with a woman for more than a few days and not hearing about this.
Men mostly "parallel play" when they get together. Playing sports or video games together doesn't involve a lot of talking but they are comfortable just spending time together in things side by side. Men don't sit and "chitty-chat" or pour their hearts out like women.
Women prefer more intimate settings, such as sitting at a table in a restaurant so they can interact and talk about anything and everything. Visiting in one's home is usually too noisy to talk when their husbands are around, or they have no privacy to TALK ABOUT THEIR HUSBANDS LOL.
To start, I know not ALL women are like this, but nevertheless, I have noticed something and would appreciate input. I have noticed that, for the most part, when women get together they will usually just sit around talking but really don't get together to do activities. Now sure that's fine and all, but I find it curious why that is, as in for example, with me and my guy friends we get together to do all sorts of things; play video games, go bowling (part of a bowling league), putt-putt, camping etc. etc. And while we all have jobs and some are married with kids, we can still call each other up and say "hey, want to get together and do x, y and z?" and usually don't have a problem finding guys to do so.
Or like last Saturday, bunch of bros came over, we played a few hours of video games then one of them said something about putt-putt and we all thought it was a great idea and we just all hopped in my car and off we went, after that I suggested some bowling and we did that, then all went home.
Yet it really doesn't seem as if it's really the same with women. Now, again, if they just want to talk that's well and good, but you look at say when women have girl's night out, they may go to a nice restaurant or something but still, they're really not doing that much different than when they're hanging out at home. Perhaps it's just me, but doesn't seem as if it happens as often among women where kind of like my example where say women get together, talk and then one might say "Hey, let's all go bowling, or play putt-putt" and they all just get into a car together and go out for some different physical activities.
Again, not saying it's bad, just an observation I find interesting.
I'm a woman; when I was single, I had time to "do stuff," and when I got married, I did not...I used to listen to music, make tapes and CDs of music, read, go to events, etc. I just do not have time for that now. i do find that when women are invited out as a group, it is for MLM such as Avon.
It's not really "isolating" when you're playing with friends, like in a game me and my friends play you can have up to 8 players and it's a blast. And I can have face to face conversations with others WHILE playing.
Sorry--but getting together to play video games? I think my sons did that a bit in high school.
I once worked side by side with a guy for several months, at lunch in the dry shack with him every day, saw him at the bar on a regular basis, ... never once did he mention that his Dad was dying of cancer and his heart was breaking.
That is sad that he was not able/not comfortable to share what was going on in his life.
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