The differences in the way men and women think is a constant source of amazement to me.  Here’s a recent example:

Last week, we gave away tickets to Celine Dion, who’s coming to Atlanta in January, and the stage production of Mamma Mia, which is at the Peace Center this week.  We were bombarded with calls!  We got a call from one young lady who normally gets up at 10:30 AM (no, I don’t know what she does for a living!), who got up at 5:25 AM all last week just to have a shot at the Celine tix! 

In all the hundreds of calls we got about these two shows… not one guy.  Not a single male caller.  Now how can something SOOO popular with one gender, get a collective yawn from the other?

I’ll give you another example- when the Momma Mia movie came out several weeks back, I knew my wife would wanna go see it.  And just on the off chance that she would expect ME to go, instead of one of her gal pals, I actually MADE A LIST of things I would rather do than see the Momma Mia movie! (I won’t reprint it here, except to say that it included drinking out of the Reedy River!  Yup.  I felt that strongly about it…)  

Here’s one more example- Greer and some other local communities recently passed water restrictions that include a recommendation for a 5-minute shower.  I don’t know one guy who has said to me, “How do they expect me to get everything done in there in just 5 minutes?”  We don’t even think about it as abnormal.  However, I have heard that very comment from a number of coworkers – all of them women.

Anyway there’s been a growing trend lately, especially in academia, of pretending that men and women are the same.  That our only differences stem from our social precepts.  People who believe that should stand on a street corner and hold up a pair of Celine Dion tickets!

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