Observations: My Observations of the Women in My Life

A guidebook on women for my son and other curious people.

This book is a compilation of my observations about women and their behavior. For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated with the differences between men and women, but only recently have I begun to record my observations. I do not hold myself out as any kind of expert, but merely an observer.

Although I am not a scientist, I have tried to approach the topic of womanly behavior in a somewhat scientific manner. What I mean by that is, because women are so baffling to me, I have found it necessary to observe women and their behavior from an oblique angle, much the same way that a nuclear scientist might study atomic particles. The scientist can never actually see or hold an electron or a quark or other atomic particle. He can’t literally climb inside an atom or put an electron in a cage. He simply must conduct scientific experiments that enable him to indirectly observe the results of various interactions. From the results, he can extrapolate the nature and potential behavior of those particles. He will make hypotheses to predict other behavior, but not all of them will turn out to be correct. Some of his experiments are costly failures, while others may lead to small gains in knowledge. A precious few experiments lead to breakthroughs in understanding. Through it all, the scientist attempts to use his experiments in order to predict the behavior of his subject. That behavior, while perhaps predictable, may not be explainable. Other times, predicted behavior does not occur due to some unknown or uncontrollable factor or worse yet, a degree of randomness in the system. Some of the predicted behaviors may be counterintuitive or mutually exclusive, yet somehow they all co-exist. Men who have spent a lot of time around women will wonder if I stopped talking about atoms and began talking about women because women are much like atoms. Oftentimes they are unpredictable, complex, counterintuitive, or even seem to be on the verge of flying apart into a million pieces, yet they ultimately function in such a way that they hold not only themselves, but also everything together.

I would not try to suggest that my observations of women are 100% accurate. Generalizing about anything is a little risky. There are undoubtedly many exceptions to my observations. For every observation, there will at least one woman that will be completely the opposite, yet she will embody many of the other traits and behaviors that make women unique from men. I KNOW I do not completely understand women nor do I think all women are alike. I simply recognize that women are very different from men and, as a result, their behavior is baffling to us, so it is incumbent on us to try to gain knowledge of them because we have to deal with them constantly. Less

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