Something women are better at than men

Outlaw Pete

Folding stuff. Every women I've ever known was great at the old folding.

Shirts, T-shirts, doesn't matter what, they could fold it all up as neat as stuff laid out in Debenebehams (too lazy to Google the spelling, you know the place, opposite Arnotts).

So what do you think women are better at doing than the mens are at doing things than?

jk23

Ok a few random ones here!
Organizing things, studying, smiling, standing up for friends, intuition and being intimate or affectionate

Remembering what needs to be picked up at the supermarket. He cannot accept that he's bad at it.

I can ask himself to get three things, say milk, bread and tea. He'll refuse to write it down because his memory is supposedly fantastic, then he'll come home with milk, bread and shoe polish or onions or bran flakes or something. He's a world class vacuumer though, exceptional.

bloodless_coup

Virtually nothing

Hitman3000

Whinging.

jk23

jk23 wrote: »

Ok a few random ones here!
Organizing things, studying, smiling, standing up for friends, intuition and being intimate or affectionate

I'd agree with the organizing and studying. I do all the organizing for trips, household stuff and all the financial stuff. I'd be faster and more thorough at that kind of thing generally.

Might just be my own experience but I've found girls to have a more methodical approach to studying.

GLaDOS

Handwriting

Rubberchikken

Spelling Debenhams;)

I agree on the folding. Must be a dna thing.

freshpopcorn

Having babies!

jk23

Candie wrote: »

I'd agree with the organizing and studying. I do all the organizing for trips, household stuff and all the financial stuff. I'd be faster and more thorough at that kind of thing generally.

Might just be my own experience but I've found girls to have a more methodical approach to studying.

Yes I think lads get more distracted easily and forget to study whereas a girl/woman will set aside a certain amount of time no matter. That is a generalisation but I have found this to be true!

I think it’s a combination of neatness and the ability to remember multiple things at once that helps with the household and financial stuff

Do you think women cope with break ups better?...

qwerty ui op

Their much better at not becoming a mass murder

Try_harder

Multiple orgasms

Tell me how

Talking.

Women can talk amongst each other about anything (or nothing), with gusto. I think it's a learned behavior from observing the ladies in their lives and I believe they really benefit from it.
I was right beside 3 girls (about 12 or 13 years old I'd say) queuing for the shop at a match and I couldn't help but notice how they kept talking about mundane things like class mates their siblings on and on. I was so close I could overhear and what struck me was there was no purpose as such to the conversation. They were each interested in what the others were saying but it was largely irrelevant. They could just as easily have been a group of ladies of any age. It was just random inane conversation amongst friends.

Guys would be asking specific questions or telling a specific story but then standing in silence. We can't seem to talk with the same ease. It's like there has to be a purpose to the conversation, and once that's resolved, the conversation is over.

I think this genuinely helps females in terms of making connections and offloading some issue's which, in guys, could (and do) lead to mental health or socialising problems.

jk23

jk23 wrote: »

Do you think women cope with break ups better?...

Short term no, but long term yes. A woman will fall apart in the immediate aftermath, have a mini breakdown but then start to pull it all together and think it all through and start to move on after a period of being alone.

A man will act like nothings happened and go out and get busy with someone new or drink a lot and apparently forget her in five days, but still somehow seem to be more permanently damaged from the trauma, hurting and distrustful for a longer period of time.

Complete generalizations based on nothing but my own observations, of course.

jk23

Candie wrote: »

Short term no, but long term yes. A woman will fall apart in the immediate aftermath, have a mini breakdown but then start to pull it all together and think it all through and start to move on after a period of being alone.

A man will act like nothings happened and go out and get busy with someone new or drink a lot and apparently forget her in five days, but still somehow seem to be more permanently damaged from the trauma, hurting and distrustful for a longer period of time.

Complete generalizations based on nothing but my own observations, of course.

Again it’s a generalisation but this usually is true, the woman usually gets all the hurt and pain out during these few days(ice cream and girl friends over!!) while a man will bottle it up and show he is fine!

This leaves a lot of unresolved hurt and issues going forward for some not all men.

Billy86

Candie wrote: »

Remembering what needs to be picked up at the supermarket. He cannot accept that he's bad at it.

I can ask himself to get three things, say milk, bread and tea. He'll refuse to write it down because his memory is supposedly fantastic, then he'll come home with milk, bread and shoe polish or onions or bran flakes or something. He's a world class vacuumer though, exceptional.

To be fair I've an ex who seemed determined to buy three-quarters of the ingredients for 6-7 different meals, somehow managing to get everything within 48 hours of it going out of date. Every. Fecking. Time

Food waste wrecks my head, so I feel your pain on that one.

Billy86

Billy86 wrote: »

To be fair I've an ex who seemed determined to buy three-quarters of the ingredients for 6-7 different meals, somehow managing to get everything within 48 hours of it going out of date. Every. Fecking. Time

Food waste wrecks my head, so I feel your pain on that one.

Don't even talk to me about the sell by dates. He never looks, never.

I was talking to my mum on the phone a few months ago and she told me my dad was out buying a kayak, which I thought was pretty cool. So I called him later and asked him kind he got and he told me he bought a generator instead. He has no use nor need of a generator, he just thought it was a good idea. This kind of thing seems to be a male preserve.

Women are better at sticking to the mission statement.

J Mysterio

Candie wrote: »

Don't even talk to me about the sell by dates. He never looks, never.

I was talking to my mum on the phone a few months ago and she told me my dad was out buying a kayak, which I thought was pretty cool. So I called him later and asked him kind he got and he told me he bought a generator instead. He has no use nor need of a generator, he just thought it was a good idea. This kind of thing seems to be a male preserve.

Women are better at sticking to the mission statement.

He's prepared for the zombie apocalypse now though.

On the break-ups thing I think it's the case that divorced men lose years off life expectancy while it makes no difference for women.

prinzeugen

Candie wrote: »

Don't even talk to me about the sell by dates. He never looks, never.

I was talking to my mum on the phone a few months ago and she told me my dad was out buying a kayak, which I thought was pretty cool. So I called him later and asked him kind he got and he told me he bought a generator instead. He has no use nor need of a generator, he just thought it was a good idea. This kind of thing seems to be a male preserve.

Women are better at sticking to the mission statement.

Is this guy your dad?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cL7jyXCQ2Zc

Longer deadly version

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S-8GeEHR0mc

StupidLikeAFox

Tell me how wrote: »

Talking.

Women can talk amongst each other about anything (or nothing), with gusto. I think it's a learned behavior from observing the ladies in their lives and I believe they really benefit from it.
I was right beside 3 girls (about 12 or 13 years old I'd say) queuing for the shop at a match and I couldn't help but notice how they kept talking about mundane things like class mates their siblings on and on. I was so close I could overhear and what struck me was there was no purpose as such to the conversation. They were each interested in what the others were saying but it was largely irrelevant. They could just as easily have been a group of ladies of any age. It was just random inane conversation amongst friends.

Guys would be asking specific questions or telling a specific story but then standing in silence. We can't seem to talk with the same ease. It's like there has to be a purpose to the conversation, and once that's resolved, the conversation is over.

I think this genuinely helps females in terms of making connections and offloading some issue's which, in guys, could (and do) lead to mental health or socialising problems.

This is a very good point. It's interesting that you say there was no purpose to the conversation, describe it as inane and mundane, but in reality making conversation this way is a great skill and beneficial in the long run as it helps you get things off your chest in a way which a lot of men cannot do.

Gross generalisation, but lads need to have an opinion on something before they talk about it, women can chat away about things and form the opinion later.

Billy86

Candie wrote: »

Don't even talk to me about the sell by dates. He never looks, never.

I was talking to my mum on the phone a few months ago and she told me my dad was out buying a kayak, which I thought was pretty cool. So I called him later and asked him kind he got and he told me he bought a generator instead. He has no use nor need of a generator, he just thought it was a good idea. This kind of thing seems to be a male preserve.

Women are better at sticking to the mission statement.

Well yeah I'll admit the random bullsh*t buys are something I find myself at at times too. But in my defense those dozen picture frames were going cheap, and think of all the possible uses I could get out of them!

scudzilla

Candie wrote: »

Remembering what needs to be picked up at the supermarket. He cannot accept that he's bad at it.

I can ask himself to get three things, say milk, bread and tea. He'll refuse to write it down because his memory is supposedly fantastic, then he'll come home with milk, bread and shoe polish or onions or bran flakes or something. He's a world class vacuumer though, exceptional.

Unless he's like me, went to Lidl a few months back for some messages on her instructions, came back with a trumpet, ONLY a trumpet, she went nuts, told her i'd got excited.

**Trumpet is still in back room, played once

Billy86

[Deleted User] wrote: »

On the break-ups thing I think it's the case that divorced men lose years off life expectancy while it makes no difference for women.

prinzeugen

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

This is a very good point. It's interesting that you say there was no purpose to the conversation, describe it as inane and mundane, but in reality making conversation this way is a great skill and beneficial in the long run as it helps you get things off your chest in a way which a lot of men cannot do.

Gross generalisation, but lads need to have an opinion on something before they talk about it, women can chat away about things and form the opinion later.

That is true about older males. I wish a friend of mine had talked.

I have heard male late teens having random discussions on the bus about everything and anything but there is a social media timebomb waiting to go off.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Rote learning.

prinzeugen

prinzeugen wrote: »

Is this guy your dad?

That's not my dad, but he does speak to the universality of the shopping impulse control issues of dads everywhere.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Folding stuff. Every women I've ever known was great at the old folding.

Shirts, T-shirts, doesn't matter what, they could fold it all up as neat as stuff laid out in Debenebehams (too lazy to Google the spelling, you know the place, opposite Arnotts).

So what do you think women are better at doing than the mens are at doing things than?

Apart from men who have served in the military.

They have folding down to a complete science .

scudzilla

scudzilla wrote: »

Unless he's like me, went to Lidl a few months back for some messages on her instructions, came back with a trumpet, ONLY a trumpet, she went nuts, told her i'd got excited.

**Trumpet is still in back room, played once

You should definitely blow your own trumpet once in a while, for the sake of it.

And to remind her of the consequences of sending you to the shops alone.

AskMyChocolate

Having their car-keys taken from them by a barman for their own good.

AskMyChocolate

Remembering birthdays.

Overheal

Look better in a bra

AskMyChocolate

Overheal wrote: »

Look better in a bra

Forced transvestisism again Overheal? "That's the fourth time they've done that to Mr.Sweeney." "Oh, he wouldn't like that." :pac:

Overheal

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

Forced transvestisism again Overheal? "That's the fourth time they've done that to Mr.Sweeney." "Oh, he wouldn't like that." :pac:

Oh I didn’t say forced.. :eek:

freshpopcorn

Driving out of Dáil Éireann!

Yer Da sells Avon

Driving in general.

Overheal

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

Driving in general.

ginandtonicsky

jk23 wrote: »

Again it’s a generalisation but this usually is true, the woman usually gets all the hurt and pain out during these few days(ice cream and girl friends over!!) while a man will bottle it up and show he is fine!

First few DAYS?? I'm female and it's taken me the guts of a year plus to get over an ex. Breakups are a process for both men and women and not any quicker or easier for either imo. Much like a bereavement.

i would agree that men are more likely to be left with unresolved issues though, as i'd say women are more inclined to self-reflect and analyse the relationship and not be completely turned off the idea of romantic love and trust and what-have-you from then on. i know far more commitmentphobic / relationshipphobic men as a result of difficult breakups than i do women.

Yer Da sells Avon

Overheal wrote: »

Taking fewer risks and causing fewer accidents = better at driving.

suicide_circus

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

Taking fewer risks and causing fewer accidents = better at driving.

If safety is the number one metric then yes you're correct.

Heres Johnny

Car park carnage

Irish Guitarist

Playing the harp.

tabby aspreme

Hiding chocolate

cantdecide

Concentration and cognition in general. Men tend to be more distractable.

cantdecide

Tell me how wrote: »

Talking.

Guys would be asking specific questions or telling a specific story but then standing in silence. We can't seem to talk with the same ease. It's like there has to be a purpose to the conversation, and once that's resolved, the conversation is over.

I think this genuinely helps females in terms of making connections and offloading some issue's which, in guys, could (and do) lead to mental health or socialising problems.

This is the power of men's sheds. Not always wanting to cry into a cuppa doesn't mean men are defective - men just often require a different forum and format to get things off their chest.

Tell me how

StupidLikeAFox wrote:

This is a very good point. It's interesting that you say there was no purpose to the conversation, describe it as inane and mundane, but in reality making conversation this way is a great skill and beneficial in the long run as it helps you get things off your chest in a way which a lot of men cannot do.

That's my point.

Wibbs

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

Taking fewer risks and causing fewer accidents = better at driving.

Nope. Women have slightly more accidents overall and more accidents per miles driven than men. The biggest difference as far as damage, injury and insurance companies go is that women have less extreme accidents. IE they have more "fender benders" as the Americans say, but when men have accidents they tend to be bigger, cause more injury and cost more.

ginandtonicsky wrote: »

First few DAYS?? I'm female and it's taken me the guts of a year plus to get over an ex. Breakups are a process for both men and women and not any quicker or easier for either imo. Much like a bereavement.

+1. Women™ may appear to get over relationships more quickly because the majority of breakups and divorces are instigated by the woman, so when the hammer falls they appear to be in more control. So the grieving period might last say a year for both, but the woman is more likely to have been mourning for and detaching from the relationship for six months before the split actually happens, so they look like they're bouncing back faster.

i would agree that men are more likely to be left with unresolved issues though, as i'd say women are more inclined to self-reflect and analyse the relationship and not be completely turned off the idea of romantic love and trust and what-have-you from then on. i know far more commitmentphobic / relationshipphobic men as a result of difficult breakups than i do women.

I'd agree with that G&Tsky. In my experience anyway far more women remain open to someone new, even after some really bad, even abusive relationships and they tend much more to fall fully back in. They can reinvent their emotional state and history. I have found that generally speaking men rarely get back that clean slate state and hold something back.

I have found women in general more emotionally resilient. Oh they may be throwing emotions all over the place, but they keep on trucking. I find women in general more life practical too. They're generally less queasy about the blood and guts of life with it.

Tell me how

cantdecide wrote:

This is the power of men's sheds. Not always wanting to cry into a cuppa doesn't mean men are defective - men just often require a different forum and format to get things off their chest.

Some men can do it, yes. Some can even without a man she'd. But, women, I believe are much better at it. Generally speaking.

Jimbob1977

Nagging. Wives or girlfriends take over where Mum left off. It's like a tag team.

Baking

Knowing where everything in the house is located

Soft furnishings and decorating

Talking about emotional stuff... and not bottling it up like men

Non-physical bullying (cutting off friends for trivial reasons, targeting others for no reason, Mean Girls stuff).

Spending exorbitant amounts on shoes and handbags.

Missing entire punchlines or plots.

Cleopatra_

Having lovely boobies.

Communicating and talking about all of their feelings.

In my experience women seem to be better at reading body language and taking social cues.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Talking incessantly throughout a movie, then having to ask about plotlines that they've missed.

Interrupting a conversation to point out that there is a dog nearby.

Plaguing you for the remote and then pissing around on their phone for the duration of the programme they wanted to watch.