men are like waffles, women are like spaghetti

Yep. Today we get to talk about FOOD! Yay! We all like food, right? Of course that's right! It's also a pretty basic fact that men are attracted to women and women are attracted to men. (I'm ignoring the homosexual revolution for the minute because that is wholly and entirely unrelated to this particular post.) But hey - guess what? I have a shocking statement for you.

...Wait for it...

...Wait for it...

MEN AND WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT. 

I mean, who woulda thunk, right? We all have the same number of chromosomes; the same organs for respiratory, circulation, blood filtering, digesting food; the same type of brain; the same number of limbs (ARMS AND LEGS PEOPLE, ARMS AND LEGS...no perversion of that statement allowed :P) ; the same number of heads (1)...the list could keep going.

Well...actually, not really. As it was, it took me about ten minutes to come up with that short list. Because men and women are VERY different. They're as different as...well, as waffles and spaghetti. Men are like waffles, women are like spaghetti. Hence the title of the post - and of the book of the same name. I have never read the book, but I intend to - as soon as I have time. (HAH!)

So why are men like waffles and women like spaghetti? To answer this, I have another question: how do guys and gals think? Guys are focused. They direct their energies towards one thing and have a very hard time multitasking. It's like they have little compartments in their brain. They have to fill each one with syrup. One at a time, mind you. And it must be perfectly filled.

Women do NOT compartmentalize their brains. Yes, we might separate "school" from "work" from "kids" from "wedding", and have our dates pretty well figured out, but we're much more like a plate of spaghetti. We are all over the place. You can have several noodles overlapping and intertwining with each other. You can't follow one noodle when it's in a pile of spaghetti. That noodle leads to another noodle, which leads to another, which leads....and on and on and on.

Which leads me to what kinda prompted this post. I was having a conversation with my boyfriend - who comes from a more conservative background than I do - about this little issue. It's called "modesty". Yes, I dress modestly - no low-cut shirts, no cleavage hanging out, no short skirts, no short shorts, no bikinis, no skin-tight clothing, etc. The women in his family only wear skirts and no jewelry (other than wedding band). A little bit more radical than my outlook, but that's ok.

We were discussing a view held by some EXTREME conservatives (no, I'm actually not an extreme conservative, just a liberal extreme conservative). No sleeves that rise higher than the wrists. On ANYONE. Guys or girls. Nor are guys allowed to wear shorts, and women must wear skirts at least to their ankles. On the women, I can somewhat understand this view. Men are visually motivated, and too much skin can be a trigger for lust. I do think this is a little overboard, but I can understand it.

I do not understand the men being forced to follow this as well. Heads up for all you guys - for the most part, women don't care! Sure, lots of gals want their guy buff and tan, complete with six pack, but quite frankly, skin on a guy doesn't set women off. We are not nearly as likely to be visually stimulated in that particular way. I'm not saying it's not possible, but quite frankly, wearing a short sleeve shirt and shorts is NOT going to cause an issue.

If only people would realize that men are like waffles, but women are like spaghetti...

-enna