FriendBurst Blog

“What does she want from me? Does she think I’m a mind reader or something?”

“He just doesn’t understand what I need. He’s so insensitive.”

So, how many times have we either made these statements or heard them made by someone else? If not word for word I bet you’ve said or heard something pretty close this at some point in your life. Yup,  men and women are different in more ways than just how nature and are chromosomes made us.  We are truly hardwired in different ways. Heck, a bestselling book was written on the subject of how the sexes differ in their ways of thinking and communicating (I tip my hat in thanks in borrowing the title) It’s a mystery that has been discussed for as long as their have been men and women….which as we all know has been a PRETTY LONG time.

I am a female, at least that’s what it says on my birth certificate and I usually get a daily confirmation of it when I get dressed every morning. And while that automatically makes me a member of some universal “sisterhood” for the most part, I have very few and far in between female friends. I don’t really know why this is, it’s just always been that way. Since my early childhood I have always found it much easier to become friends with boys and to this day, most of my closest friends are male. Because of this, it gives me the inside track on how many guys “think” and have some kind of understanding as to why they do what they do. And because Mother Nature has chosen for me to be a woman, I know how a woman thinks and why so very often  men  think we’re crazy. (Between you and me…..I think we’re a bit crazy sometimes, too)

As I make observations very often in my daily life as to how the two sexes intermingle and the lulz that can sometimes be a result of this interaction, the idea has often occurred to me to write all of this stuff down. Maybe it will help someone, maybe it will make you laugh, maybe it will make you cry, or maybe it will make you throw up in your mouth a little. Who knows! I sure as heck don’t! All I know is I have too much material to just keep to myself and not enough female friends to tell it all to (and we all know that most of you guys would rather have root canal than endure a girlie “chat fest”, you strong silent types you) so I decided to try my hand at a blog series saluting and lampooning the differences between us. Maybe we’ll solve some mysteries between the sexes and maybe we’ll open up some topics of conversations. No matter what happens, I think it will be a fun ride that I hope you will join me on it.

So welcome to “Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, & both can be a pain in Uranus” (or Mars/Venus/Uranus, for short).  Enjoy your stay and men, if you promise to leave the seat down for us ladies, I promise we wont run out of bacon.