Why do women always boast about multi-tasking? Washing dishes whilst making the dinner aint rocket science?

Question

Or brain surgery. Or any of the other complex, male-dominated professions which women could only dream of entering

Curls: Are you sitting on the dishwasher while it cleans the dishes? :-)

Answer 1

Idiot in the worst way. Bro get a grip, you sound like some bitter man who just dislikes women. Quit knocking women and learn to appreciate them and who knows you may get a woman who happens to be a neurosurgeon that cooks, cleans and as Passion Curls stated "masturbate" all at the same time lol!!! Passion that was great.

Oh and me calling you an idiot is a compliment considering the other things I would like to say. I would've called you a douche bag, but some women use them and I feel that I shouldn't use that word as a derogatory term.

Peace mofo

Answer 2

You evidently don't understand what multi-tasking is. Nothing to do with male-dominated professions. Are you feeling a little inadequate tonight????

Answer 3

Obviously you've never done it so how would you know? Understanding how not to be a chauvanist pig isn't rocket science either & yet you still haven't figured that out.

I wish I could give Gilbert B about 10 thumbs-ups - I think he sums up the general attitude about you pretty well!

Answer 4

Just last night (I'm a male by the way), I had to get into it with my roommate (another male), because he cannot comprehend doing more than one thing at a time. I was installing a new OS on a computer in my bedroom, folding laundry, and cooking dinner while watching the World Series. When I would leave the immediate vicinity of the TV, in the living room--for even a minute--he would shut it off. He kept shutting doors, putting things away, turning off lights. Then I would have to bang around and find the kitchen light switch so I could stir my dinner or fold clothes. Why? Because to him, I should only be in one place, doing one thing, at a time. As he saw it in his darkly compartmented mind, I was merely wasting electricity (on lights and the TV, every time I stepped away from them) and making messes (a spoon on the counter, used for stirring, yet unattended for 2 minutes, to him is indistinguishable from a pile of week-old dishes in the sink).

I think there's a real problem here, and it goes beyond mere chest-beating over multi-tasking. There's a problem with men refusing to recognize and respect the different ways in which people complete tasks, and think, and function generally. It really annoyed me that my roomie couldn't take 3 seconds to simply look around and see that I was doing all these things, and all in roughly the same period of time, and so he need not have imposed his structure of lights-turned-off and "messes"-cleaned-up. (I'm actually very clean and neat).

I don't want to me cruel to my roommate, or non-multi-taskers in general, but the proof is in the pudding--women--and people who think and work like they do--get more done. Monotasking men might be able to do great things when they can be left alone for hours on end in a dark room to figure stuff out, but their overall contribution to the functioning of society, is in my opinion, far less, both in sheer usefulness, and in quantity. Women raise families, and keep homes and businesses running so men can sit in their lonely corners. If there were no women running things so men could sit and ruminate on one-thing-at-a-time, then the men would have to do something else less tech-y, like go hunt dinner or grow their own grain or build a fire, or maybe just sit and waste away. I have seen many times in my life that men go to pieces when they don't have a partner.

This is frequently believed to be due to facile emotional explanations like "loneliness." But in my observation, men's crises are often precipitated through the removal of the structure that women provide men, through their direct efforts in maintaining complex systems (homes and families).
One guy I knew, after he left his wife, lost a lot of weight. He said it was because he was "depressed" (even though he is the one who left), but it was in my observation because he was utterly unable to feed himself--he wasn't eating enough calories, because he didn't really understand how that whole shopping-preparing-and-cooking-and-cleaning-up thing worked.

Women ARE entering complex male-dominated professions, and women are at parity (or even surpassing men) in numbers in many professional schools in the western world. Brain-hemisphere functioning has nothing to do with their previous exclusion. Women didn't do these things before because 1. Somebody had to take care of the family and home; and 2. Women were deliberately and systematically excluded by men from many spheres of activity. Women have only been permitted to vote in this country for less than a century. 100 years ago they weren't permitted to do many things. When typewriters first came out, it was thought that only men were mechanically inclined enough to operate them correctly; therefore, men were the first secretaries. But when men were required to act as nannies to men in the office, suddenly women were good enough for the job.

Answer 5

Maybe they are not boasting. Maybe they are only venting on their necessity to do as many things at once as possible.

Perhaps some help from her significant other and some appreciation from the world for what they contribute to a household.

Answer 6

All, it sounds like someone had a mean mommy and now he is feeling sorry for himself. If you have a problem with us women go talk to your parents they are the ones who did this to you. Go tell your mother these things tell her how you feel not us because we don't care.

Answer 7

Nobody multi-tasks worth a crap. It has been studied extensively, especially since "multi-tasking" became a business buzzword meaning "we want you to do more jobs simultaneously".

And there is no meaningful statistical difference in how ineffective this multi-tasking is between the sexes, but people tend to be less productive and make more mistakes when they attempt to perform more than one task at a time.

There have been many, many cognitive studies all pretty much reaching that conclusion. It's myth, and it's sexist.

http://www.physorg.com/news94104969.html

"among human subjects in multitasking studies, University of Michigan psychology professor David Meyer says, "the two sexes typically come out about the same, on average." Even among air-traffic controllers, the Top Guns of multitasking -- of whom nearly one-fifth are women -- researchers don't see differences, says the Federal Aviation Administration's Carol Manning."
http://www.careerjournal.com/columnists/workfamily/20030321-workfamily.html

Answer 8

That's nice.

Now let's see you clean my apartment, do the laundry, pay the bills, empty the dishwasher, and cook dinner all in one fell swoop. Oh wait...that job at Burger King is already too tough for you. Nevermind.

Answer 9

the truth is that some women let the side down


there are also some very clever women about


it's a fact though that you (and I) cannot think about more than one thing at a time and not get muddled or sidetracked


most women can do this with ease

Answer 10

I am sorry you put your mother through all this work.. drop the bong... dry up and ... and if you still are pissed about you mom doing all that while you sit on your fat lard end....just feel bad when she stops paying for your internet bill..get a job...you lazy freak..