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I have heard that;
Men do one thing at a time correctly.
whereas;
Women do many things wrong concurrently incorrectly.
What is the truth.

2007-10-04 10:51:23 · 32 answers · asked by interested_party 4 in Social Science Gender Studies

ooops. forgot to switch off the the e-mail responce.

the spelling and double negative was a deliberate ploy!

2007-10-04 11:35:45 · update #1

32 answers

OK, so...what happened?

Well, it goes like this.... Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, a group of women with a chip on their shoulder existed. They called themselves - phlegminists - and liked to pretend to the world that they were far superior to men, that's an entire class of people.
While they jeered the men - as a class - they complained about stereotyping and objectifying women, which seemed like a plausable cause. So, slowly over time, men marginalized their objectifying and tried to take account of the phlegminist POV's. However, as men tried harder and harder to please the phlegminists, they moaned & whined more & more, eventually trickling their complaints into the most pitiful & insignificant degrees of problems. Taxing tampons, for example. They complained that women should not pay tax on such items, while ignoring that everything else in the world was taxed. Well, duh!
One of the tricks that phlegminists used was to take a legitimate study and only release portions of it or take sections and misquote them, alternatively, they frequently created their own studies which were worded to specifically marginalize recognition of men in any form, aside from badly. For example, when the first studies on D/V were made, they purposely made house calls after 9am, and before 5pm, knowing that most men would be out working while the women would be mostly in the home. Upon completing their study, they found that hardly any men at all had reported an incidence of violence while women reported a higher level. The reports did not account for the fact that barely any men were able to participate in the study, but that was not relevent to phlegminists - they had an agenda to keep!!!

Simarly, another study suggested were 'better at multitasking'. What this actually translated to, in layman terms was:
Women can talk on the phone, while writing it down (e.g. secretary), or make the kids' breakfast while reminding them to pick up their homework for school that day, and perhaps shouting upstairs to Dad to remind him of his Drs. appointment that afternoon.
That was all.
So, in the natural phlegminist mentality - they set about their agenda. They went around loudly proclaiming their superior skills of 'multitasking'.
Many women heard this, and were indeed glad that they had a skill to compete with men, and perhaps be 'better' than men.
However, what feminists didn't say - and thus tricked the average person (both male & female) was that it referred to basic tasks (like talking & writing) and not important tasks, like trying to figure out the economic situation of their home, while also preparing a two week break for the family, and ensuring all the security measures had been taken, as well as calling on neighbours to keep an eye on the home, and ensuring the pets were fed, and so on and so on.

Thus, there is truth to the claim that women can multitask - but it is not quite the same way phlegminists would like to pretend.

Generally, this is why guys just prefer to do one task at a time. KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid). If you have a complicated task - it's better to give it your undivided attention. If you are willing to compromise your attention to detail, it could cost you a LOT. (e.g. working with electricity, phone goes off, you pick it up, start talking, 10 minutes later you're lay on the ground - dead).

ETA: Bwaahahaha - feminists showing their bias instantly. I'd only wrote "..." and already recipient of 3x thumbs down! Lmfao @ losers.

2007-10-04 10:54:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4 6

I think women tend to try and do more things at once, whether they are good at it is probably more down to the individual.

I'm not sure what kinda things the theory is based on.

I am female and unable to focus to a high degree on what my hands are doing and hold a conversation with someone for example... i couldn't write about one thing and talk about another at the same time.

But i can tap my head and rub my tummy at the same time lol

2007-10-04 10:58:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4 0

Yes men can usually sustain concentration on 1 thing at a time(trying to multi they tend to fail),woman can multitask while holding concentration much easier.

2016-05-21 01:04:01 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

My wife can drive and build a shopping list at the same time ~ whilst failing to negotiate an exit from the roundabout she's on.

When I'm driving on an unfamilar stretch of road and in heavy traffic, I require a modicum of assistance......

'Which exit do I need?' I'll ask.

'Sorry, what do you mean?'

'We are on a roundabout and I'm watching the traffic to negotiate a safe exit. But I need you to tell me which exit it is that I need to take. It is your sister's place and you have been there before'

'The one YOU just passed, I think.....!'

Well, that's one scenario of a few.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Oh, what a lovely house."

"I know, you said that the last two times we came past here."

"Did I. When was that?"

"Yesterday."
~~~~~~~~~~

Ok, I exaggerate ~ just 'slightly' ~ to provide a gist of the power of the multi~tasking mind.

Sash.

2007-10-04 13:52:06 · answer #4 · answered by sashtou 7 · 2 0

You're probably going to get a lot of this, but it really depends on the individual. I've heard that women are generally better multi-taskers than men, but really, people would be no fun if we could just lump eachother together like that.

2007-10-04 10:56:49 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 1 1

Both. However, women can do one thing at a time correctly, or two or three simple things at a time correctly, like men (although men have a disadvantage in the latter, and an advantage on the former).
The ones who do many things wrong concurrently incorrectly are women who think they are superior to men (nowadays feminism), and use all their "superiorities" at a ridiculous degree.

2007-10-04 10:59:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 3

Some tasks require laser like focus and single mindedness. Other tasks can be successfully multi-tasked. Men seem to be better at focus, women seem to be better at multi talking. That is the truth.

2007-10-04 12:44:17 · answer #7 · answered by ninebadthings 7 · 1 1

Anyone can do many things incorrectly at the same time.

Men and women can both do multiple things correctly at the same time if they can focus and keep their mind straight.

Personally, I can't stand only doing one thing at a time unless it's sex. Feels like I'm wasting time unless I'm doing a lot all at once.

2007-10-04 10:56:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

Most women have done so much for so long with so little that now many are qualified to do anything with nothing.

2007-10-08 04:17:24 · answer #9 · answered by masince1986 6 · 0 0

Yeah, right. They'll put the kettle on, then go and do something else. Then they'll come back and make the tea with tepid water.

2007-10-06 04:31:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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