Poll: Are Girls more Complicated than Boys?

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Evil Top Hat

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On the one hand, Women tend to be much more sensitive and caring as people. On the other hand, most of the great philosophers that have ever lived have been Men.

You can't generalise, people are too complicated and brilliant to be able to say that one group is any more complicated and brilliant than another.
 

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I don't know if you call insane, complex, but guys get a bad rep, we definitely do not think about sex 24/7, we're a bit deeper than that.
 

Agayek

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NeutralDrow said:
Oh, I hope not. The only "tough choice" in that case would whether or not to post in the thread anyway and complain/laugh over its exclusion. I mean, "political correctness" is already fairly meaningless anyway, but defining it as "having some impression of the world beyond common stereotypes" is going a little far.

This isn't even an "equality" thing. Who exactly would be the superior in this sentiment, the complex or simplistic?
I'd say the simplistic, but that's just me.

As for the political correctness thing, I would say that he might have a point, insofar as most people, especially those in the demographic of the escapist, have been raised to/believe in "equality", and a lot of people's kneejerk response is "Everyone is always equal in everything because fuck off". I could see people clicking the "the genders are equally complex!" thing purely because of that. Some people may genuinely believe that, and honestly I'd agree, but I can see people choosing that option purely because of the "Everyone is always equal in everything" concept (which is blatantly untrue).
 

Mackie Stingray

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I'm not sure I like the answer I've given. Issues surrounding girls are more complex, regardless of how complicated or simple any given person may be.

If a boy gets a girl pregnant, it seems to me the questions are straightforward. Will he be an involved father, or not? Will he take responsibility, or not? Will he seek for her to get an abortion, or not? Will he be a good father... That's where things get really complicated.
For a girl, however, there's additional questions. The choice of carrying the child to term is hers, unless nature takes the matter out of her hands. She must navigate for herself the moral and ethical questions surrounding carrying or aborting a fetus, caring for that child, and potentially being supported or abandoned by those who advise her one way or another.
There's sometimes a power imbalance in relationships. This usually favors the male, though less often nowadays. Nevertheless, this means there's more cause for a woman than a man to search for the signs of a potentially abusive relationship. This isn't a question of responsibility, but of stakes.
A miscarriage can be as emotionally traumatic for a loving potential father, but a potential mother who miscarries is absolutely stuck with potential ramifications, and clearing them up or ruling them out.
For boys, violence often is the cause and solution to a problem. Violence is simple, just physics unbottled in the other person's face. For girls, violence is less common.

Obviously this depends on the boy or girl in question. Some girls are violent. Some boys aren't. Some girls have simple troubles, or know how to simplify their lives, while some boys are drama kings who thrive on attention any way they can get it, or perhaps they simply don't know how to navigate social circles.
Nevertheless, I feel that in general the problems of boys are simple but life-threatening, whereas the problems of girls are complex but they are more likely to survive them.
 

scorptatious

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It really depends on the person and their experiences

Me? I am a guy and I find women slightly complex. But mostly because I don't know what's it like to be a woman. That and I've never been in an official relationship.
 

Draitheryn

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It is of my opinion that women are more emotionally complex as a whole, but individual males vary more greatly than females so even though we are more simple in nature emotionally, the variance leads to a whole new complexity.

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Also men dont concentrate on one thing at a time, we often wander in our own minds and think of 30 things a minute, whereas women seem to be better at focusing.
 

ace_of_something

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funguy2121 said:
This is Omar a Rodriguez-Lopez.


Stay with me on this one.
He's the lead guitarist for the noise-rock/prog/psychedelic/latin/big rock/post-punk outfit The Mars Volta. He also composes every line of music except for the vocal melodies. With the band and on his own, he usually puts out over a half a dozen albums a year, of some of the richest, most complex, compelling, powerful music I've ever heard. He has said that he feels despair as soon as he's done recording and mixing a song or an album, because for him the process of creation is what inspires him.
Wouldn't it make more sense to compare two prog rock musicians?
Besides, he may be a musical genius but the man still enjoys a fart joke... though I haven't spoken to him in like... 11 or 12 years? I do recall how he and cedric refused to play until people put out their cigarettes.
Hmm maybe he IS complicated.
So maybe he's changed.
 

iDoom46

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I think women are more complex, even if its by just a bit.

Sure, guys are more complex than the media seems to make us think they are, thats a given. But women have hormonal mood-swings that can make them love something one day, and hate it the next.

And that's not just me saying that, that's science!

And from a literary standpoint, women get even more interesting; dealing with things like gender roles, maternal instincts and duty to family, sexuality and the expression of said sexuality, dealing with the perceived concepts of beauty and femininity, and so on. All topics reserved for female characters (and the odd, non-stereotypical gay male character).
 

badgersprite

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No. I don't think either is more complicated than the other. It's just that, if you are a boy, you find it easier to understand how other guys think, or if a guy acts weird and crazy, you chalk that down to him and his personality rather than saying, "God, why are boys so weird?"

Similarly, if you're a girl, you find it easier to understand how other girls think, and, again, if a girl you know acts in ways you don't understand, then you associate that with her being strange rather than saying, "Women are so complicated!"

It's only when you start looking at the other gender that you start really thinking, "This boy/girl acts in ways that are different from me. All men/women must be like that! Why are all men/women like this?!"
 

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I'm a guy and I think that women tend to, tend to be more complex, emotionally. Most girls I know get riled up about reasons that most guys I know find bizarre. It's harder to keep girls happy, I think. Maybe it's not for girls to keep girls happy, but they seem to fall out with each other a lot more often than guys do, so I'm not so sure.
 

pixiejedi

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Personally I'm a chick and I don't get my own kind. I don't know if that makes them complex but maybe a little bit.

Hell I don't get myself half the time but that is probably to do with my messed up Brain and psychological problems.

This is of course from personal experience mind you, I have only one female friend. The mean girls picture of ladies rings true. I'm not good at picking on my friends and doing things to them behind their backs. I do kind of think they have more emotional needs and that can be attached to societal influence. Girls have been directed toward wanting to be a princess who is saved and a loving mother. From what I know and have seen that doesn't produce well rounded independent people. This is from growing up in the US in the late 80's and 90's mind you and of course things differ from person to person

I would love to see the world as unbiased as many of you but I haven't had bizarre guy issues. My dude friends are consistent.
 

Kevak

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I would say it depends on the person or group in question, some are complex, and some are stupider then a retarded three year old with ADDOS (Attention Deficit Diso- Oh Shiny!)
 

KaiusCormere

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I'm a guy, and I think that people range from complex to simple regardless of gender, but that cultural influences create tendencies. I think there's a cultural tendency to encourage guys to be "simple" and not think about and develop their understanding of themselves and others. However, I am sure this is not inherently biological, as historically in cultures with more intellectual values, we valued other traits and developed them more strongly.
 

Twilight_guy

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Aside from minor biological differences, like more connective brain tissue in women that lets them multi-task better, the sexes are equal. Therefore I think they are equally complex. (If they aren't then feminists can't exist).
 

Axolotl

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Both equally complex, the human brain is literally the most complex structure in the universe and the person that rults from it is equally complex.

Every person who has ever lived is an intricate web of hopes, dreams, fears, hates, loves, goals and neuroses. The overwhelming majority of people are unable to truly understand themselves. Men tend to play with their cards closer to their chest but that should not be confused with being simple.