Do we really want to think like a man? Men drive us crazy basically because of how they think; women drive each other crazy enough, do we really want to add a man’s mentality to the situation? I have recently tried this philosophy of thinking like a man and acting like a lady; let me tell you, it’s not as fun as you might think. Because I kind of have a guy’s personality and sense of humour and I happen to be a commitmentphobe (have you figured out why yet?), I thought it would be an easy task. It’s not. I ended up over thinking like a girl, and acting like a man (don’t ask, one day I will tell you this story I promise). The problem is men don’t really have an overall plan with how they think. Women are far too logical to not put too much thought into something, which is exactly how men think. They tend to take things much more lightly than women do, and women tend to over think the shit out of absolutely everything (this is quite a skill of mine). Let’s take a few situations and compare how men and women might think and act.
A guy thinks one of his lady friends might like him. “I’m going to wait until we’re drunk and pull it out of her*; she likes me for sure, I think she’s hot so I’m going to kiss her. Oh shit, she asked me if I like her too; sorry girl, I just thought you were hot. I feel weird around you now, by the way. I wish you never told me how you felt when I kept bringing it up. ”
A girl thinks one of her guy friends might like her. “I’m going to friendzone him so hard that he’ll get the hint. I’ll never bring up that he might like me and if it he doesn’t get the hint I will run in the opposite direction. I don’t want to lose him as a friend.” (Ok, I don’t know if every girl runs in the opposite direction when someone likes her, or if that’s just me…)
*Hahaha, pull it out of her. Dirty mind, don’t judge.
A guy is texting a girl for a while and they are flirting and it definitely seems like they like each other (I don’t actually know if the guy in this situation likes the girl, because guys are dumb and lead you on anyway, so let’s pretend he doesn’t). “I’m going to text her all the time for two weeks, facetime her when I’m drunk for 3 hours and then take her out. Oh no, she likes me. It totally seems like I like her too (but who knows, I’m just a dumb guy). I’m just going to immediately text her one word answers eight hours after she texts me and hope she gets the hint (I’m guilty of this, but I didn’t lead him on). She asked me if I’m actually interested; I’ll tell her I led her on and I’m not looking for anything. That makes all the sense.”
A girl is texting a guy who asked for her number at work but she isn’t super interested (he had a wingman so she couldn’t say no without feeling like an asshole). Right from the start her replies to his texts are few and far between, without flirtation so he doesn’t get the wrong message. “I’m really not interested in this guy, and that usually never changes after I go out with someone. I know this is bad but I don’t want to ignore him because I hate when guys do that to me but I have to decide if I should give him a chance knowing it probably won’t change anything. He’s really nice I’m going to take a week to decide this (I’m a dumb girl sometimes, we all make mistakes). I’m going to be honest with him without him asking; he said he kind of figured that out, which means I didn’t lead him on.”
In each situation, I handled it better than a perfectly sane man and I am an emotionally damaged, sometimes crazy, cynically sarcastic girl. That means I win (if we’re keeping score, that’s Me-2, Men-0; although, I’m still single so the win is kind of symbolic here…). The very act of thinking like a man makes it impossible to act like a lady; because we act based on how we think, we would have to act like men to think like men. Therefore, I have decided this particular philosophy is bullshit and in my experience, if you think like a man you will just attract other men thinking like men. Like, for example, you think you want something casual and not serious and no strings attached, then you find a guy who is thinking the exact same thing. But when you revert back to being the emotional being you are, he doesn’t and you end up sad. And that’s how we lose, ladies. We don’t want to lose.
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