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I think maybe the difference might be that ours doesn’t shoot out at you in a dangerous manner 
And seriously…gallons?!
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Now this may be TMI, so skip if you feel the need.
In my opinion 69 isn’t an activity for trying to get either partner to orgasm. It’s a warm up. If orgasm is the goal I personally think it is a whole lot more erotic as well as practical to just give or receive… and the physical position for that is a lot more condusive to getting hands into the act for additional fun.
Which brings to mind another porn myth that I’ve never understood the basis for… what the heck is the attraction to “no hands” oral being better than using them?
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And as for something that females seem to know that men don’t get. Listening to a problem the other has, just to allow them to express it. It’s taken years and I’m still working on it. I’m male, I hear a problem I start to try and break it down and find a solution. It is a major effort on my part to keep to “Awwwww, that is really terrible, let me give you a hug.” and not start asking questions and trying to find a solution.
-Doug
Something men experience that women have no idea about:
You’re in a bar, gas station, somewhere, and need to go to the bathroom. So you walk up to the urinal, zip, flip, and start your business. You notice a little black bug flying around in the urinal. And, in the words of Bill Cosby, “you decide to declare war on this bug.”
Like Bill said, it’s a great video game, but I’ve never known anyone who managed to drown one of these bugs, and you always get mad when you run out of ammo…
Okay, I think this is in the spirit of the OP…
One thing that I (as a guy) don’t comprehend that women do is the ability/need/desire for their outward appearance to reflect their inner mood. E.g., when a woman dresses to go out, it often seems like a drawn-out affair of “Well, this sweater isn’t really me right now.” Whereas a guy will simply throw on a shirt and some slacks and be done with it.
I don’t think it’s a case that women care more about their appearance than men. Rather, I think it’s a case that women want their outfit to match their mood at the moment – and that’s a concept that I think most guys don’t grasp.
Does this make any sense?
I’m a guy and I dress to match my mood.
Oh my goodness, yes. I did room checks before break last semester… I’m sorry, but guys need air fresheners in those packets-o-freebies that we get at the beginning of fall semester. What do you all do - or have - that creates that “funk d’homme”?
As for what guys don’t get about girls - erm. First off, it’s hard for them to comprehend why we want to just curl up in a ball and tell the world to kiss off on the first day of that “special time.” Also - the compulsion to be skinny that many of us have at one time or another. My SO lives on a guys’ floor, and they all chuckle about how much weight they’ve gained since starting college… meanwhile, my best friend and I go bust our butts at the gym, marveling at how good we feel, thinking about it, and then complaining miserably about how this is all going to come to naught since the holidays are coming up.
Quadzilla: The smell is almost always caused by dirty socks, the ones we leave laying around for women to pick up. I have a theory: while Alpha Males have outgrown the need, somewhat, to lay down scent with urine, we still need to mark our territory somehow.
“Something women don’t get about men, but men will.” Ah.
This seems to break down into two things: physiological phenomenon and gender-specific behavior irrespective of body parts. I’ve think I’ve got a couple.
Most heterosexual guys from age, say, 13 to 19, live in some state of unease/dread/terror with the “Sudden Unwanted Earnest Male Erection” – also known as ‘Sue Me’. That’s when YOUR BOY (fellas, help me out here) doesn’t really need all that much stimulation to get sprung and picks the absolute worst times to reveal his majesty: Gym class. English class during standing oral reports. The lunch line behind that girl with the cute ass. During the SATs. Low necklines, clingy sweaters, tight jeans are the usual culprits – hell, eye contact with cheerleaders have done it for me – hell, that happened to me in the presence of my best friend’s sexy grandma. Ladies, you may be aware of this phenonemenon to some degree, but I’m convinced you don’t realize the breadth.
Max Torque: While I swan the bug-on-the-urinal thing, even more universal to my experiences is the ‘Curse of the Tan Pants.’ More elaboration than this is neither warranted nor necessary if you have a Y chromosome.
Behavior quirks:
When a group of guys go out to clubs, and while we’re checking each other over, if one of us could really use a breath mint, or has a piece of toilet paper stuck to his shoe, or his zipper’s undone – we won’t tell him. And we’ll send him on ahead first. Guys, more than women, enjoy setting each other up for potential humiliation.
zen101: You’ve misquoted Chris Rock somewhat. He said, “Guys lie more often, women tell the biggest lies.” A guy’s lie is, “I was at Steve’s house.” A woman’s lie is, “The baby’s yours.”
Now this might be just me, but if you’ve gotten some GOOD loving from a woman, does it really, really, really turn you on when she decides, spontaneously, to wear the shirt you wore the night before? Even if it’s just to go to the bathroom or something?
Lesbians are to men as BLANK is to women.
There is no analogy for this. I know that my women friends are perplexed by men’s appreciateion of hot lesbians getting it on.
I can only speak for myself, but perhaps I’ll have a fellow or two chime in to back me up on this. I believe that the amount of time a man spends in the bathroom is generally proportionate to the number of people vying for his attention. If you have kids, or a particularly demanding significant other, it’s just a man’s way of declaring that they’re on “home base” and cannot be interrupted until the fan is switched off and the door is opened. I think it’s a place of relative seclusion where a man can gather his thoughts or just read a book without being asked what he wants to do for dinner that night. I may be opening myself up to some abuse here, but that’s my version of the extended bathroom use. I will say, however, that I’ve never known ANYONE who has done three hours in the bathroom at a stretch. I think betenoir may be overstating for effect.
I do know that many women will spend much time in the bathroom as well, but it seems to be a general back and forth type of activity that I associate with the horrific and completely unnecessary proliferation of female personal care products. The honey guava face peels, and frosted cranberry body sprays, etc…
Something WOMEN experience that MEN have no idea about:
You’re in a bar, gas station, somewhere, and need to go to the bathroom. So you walk into the rest room and it’s totally filthy. It’s so dirty that you can’t even bring yourself to do that “squat above the seat” thing your mom taught you. So you walk back out and just hold it until you get home.
Oh yes I do. I once had to take a shit in some bus station in, damn, don’t even remember exactly where. Somewhere in Virginia, a smaller town. (I acvidentally ended up on some damn local bus that stopped at every diddly-shit town in VA.) I went into the bathroom, and Goddamn! (Literally, God should have damned this bathroom.) Two of the three toilets didn’t have seats anymore, and they were covered with dried, caked urine and other mystery contaminants, and one or two were missing stall doors. The place looked like a bathroom that could only exist in a post-apocalyptic war zone. As I walked out, I noticed the plaque that read something like “We care about keeping our bathrooms clean and sanitary. If you find that it is not to your satisfaction, please bring it to our attention.”
So yes, I held my shit, and got back on the bus.
However, women are of course bound to experience this kind of situation more often.
Good post, Askia K. Hale.
It’s true - I really can’t imagine going to middle/high school each day and hoping that I don’t get a visibile erection during the day. It never even crossed my mind that the boys were going through this.
Of course, in fifth grade, a friend of mine started her period and left a chair covered with blood smears before a teacher finally told her what was going on. Now how’s THAT for humbling? So that’s what I was afraid of - being SURPRISED.
The erection thing is definitely something that damn near all men experience that women have never dealt with.
Here is something that I’ve noticed. Men can take a shower with a bar of soap and some shampoo. Razor if they are going to shave in there. Why is my bathtub full of products??
As for the analogy: Lesbians are to men as (blank) are to women.
Well, I’m a gay woman so Lesbians are to men as lesbians are to ME. ha ha ha. Um…but keeping with the spirit of the analogy… I was jokingly going to say “shopping” or “clothes” but I suppose it should be a sexual thing and you’re probably right - I don’t think we understand the guy obsession with lesbians. My guy friends used to actually bug me to kiss my (now ex) girlfriend at the bars which made me so self conscious, I could hardly look at her.
Tibs
I run into this all the time -Why is it, when something is obviously bothering a woman, that the answer to the question “What’s wrong?”, is ** always** “Nothing.”? Am I then expected to run a situational analysis of everything I did (or didn’t do) over the past 48 hours, to figure it out? I don’t have enough patience for that;** just tell me!! **
You know this is one that I missed earlier and only noted when I came in here after the weekend to see that the only stuff I put in here that was corrected was silly stuff about women. No one noted that not all men do the drag racing thing, or that all men don’t realy feel the need to show off, etc. But certainly everything I posted as some sort of general rule must be wrong sometime if not most of the time just as all generalities are. This leads me to another general rule:
guys are pretty much ok with making fun of ourselves but for some reason a lot of us are convinced that making fun of women is a bad thing.
dolls seem to be ok with making fun of guys too but also don’t get on too wel with making fun of women.
I guess that means we are all alike and in the same way. 
awww.
Really people. tsk. Oh, and my first line is from the top selling humor book “Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus”. For some reason they never have this hillarious work of fiction in the humor section at the bookstore but it belongs there.
As for the clarification of the OP: There is no difference and there is nothing about a man that a woman can’t get or about a woman that a man can’t get. Usually we choose not to get it or it may not seem to be worth the effort (probably true). Men can now carry a child to term (artificially implanted true, but then this was pioneered by “host mothers” who are female) and women can “write their name in the snow” (poorly unless they have incredible aim, but still I know many men with bad aim if the urinal at work is any indicator). What’s left? I like “guy stuff” and I listen to “chick music”. I own a lot of shoes, I also own a lot of camo hunting gear. I hawk lugies in the winter and shop in open markets in the summer. I know that my thread count is and I know what my timing should be.
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Well actually for some fellows it does not so much shoot as it does arrive. Could be age or could be nature, I dunno’. Also some women do quite a bit of shooting on their own (or, rather, with a bit of assistance). And “Gallons” may have been an overstatement I can testify under oath if need be that typically the amount of fluid I “present” is less than the amount of fluid most of my female partners have in the past “presented”. Here is a link to further illuminate: http://www.doctorg.com/FemaleEjaculation.htm Adult content but not explicit and professionally discussed.
As a matter of comparison, one lover I was “providing for”, launched a stream over my shoulder from my couch on one side of my living room to hit (and stain) my speaker sitting against the opposite wall. The living room was not huge, but that was a bit over 8’. I personally have never managed anything more than 2-3’, so my guess is that women are capable of some pretty impressive velocity.
Ya think?
Hey there, Zen101 - I think that my OP is still not clear. I apologize - I must be wording this very oddly. I don’t quite mean things that men and women simply don’t understand because they don’t give it enough understanding.
I’m talking about experiences the one sex finds fairly commonplace and the other sex finds completely out of place.
Like: Urinating in front of someone on a daily basis.
Not: The desire to watch NASCAR.
Tibs.
The bold is only there to help other posters.
That was urine, dude.
I get it, but I don’t think it works. You can take the urin thing for example. Women in prison do it.
Like I said, pregnancy is no longer a barrier. I own uncomforatable shoes and I used to wear makeup. women work and are under pressure to support the family and so on and so on. So whats left? I can’t think of anything that a woman has done or does that a man can’t do or hasn’t done. Same thing for men with the possible exception of impregnating and then again maybe doctors who do the inseminations or the implantation of fertilized embryos have a creation trip like men do when they find out they are daddies?
Maybe the question should be “whats left that men and women still have not shared or had in common?”
Absolutely true, in my experience.
I think men tend to crave more private time than women, and the only truly private room of the house is the bathroom.
Zen101, I have noticed that men and women both make fun of men more than they do women. But do my part to try to restore balance. 
And although I’ve not read it, “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus” has always sounded to me like a very sexist book. Even the title tries to reinforce stereotypes: Mars, the god of war; Venus, the goddess of love and caring. Ick.
The only other thing I have to add is an observation that many women (in my experience) don’t seem to understand that it’s perfectly ok for a group of guys to get together and just not talk. They aren’t mad at each other, they haven’t exhausted the topics for conversation; they just might not talk.