ANSWERS: 71
  • Why do women buy things without telling us?
  • We don't....what was your question?
  • It's the high pitched female voice. The vibrations make our brains near useless for a few seconds and the information is lost.
  • Usually because it isnt important to them.
  • Which men? I don't.
  • We probably dont care, selective listening
  • Because they were not listening to begin with.
  • its not just men, women are just as guilty! if you man dont is cause you just walk up to him and start talking instead of getting thier attention first.
  • I'm sorry...did you say something?
  • Actually, I find that my boyfriend listens to me more than I listen to myself. I also have guy friends who remember little things that I tell them. Maybe the men you're talking about weren't really interested in what you had to say. It might sound harsh, but it's a possibility. Let's just hope they have a bad memory, though, because you don't seem like a bad conversationalist.
  • it's not just men .. i have no attention span so half of what is said to me just flies over my head
  • Because we have priorities.
  • Because we weren't listening to begin with. I tell my wife that if she wants me to retain what she tells me she needs to spend less time getting her point across. A human being will follow what another is saying for about 1 minute. After 1 minute the human stops listening and starts thinking about his or her responce to what is being said to him. Keep it short and keep it sweet.
  • Selective hearing. People hear what they want to hear, or prioritize what they want to hear, and the rest goes in one ear and out the other. . . .
  • Because they're not really listening
  • Alzheimer's
  • Because when 95% of what you say is crap, it's hard to sort out the 5% that matters. (I'm gonna get it for this one.)
  • Men listen when it is in their favor or USEFUL information........he could care less about your mom, bank account, car tires, shitty boss, best friend woes, or if you changed diapers or not that day. He WILL listen when it involves dinner plans, big financial purchases, SEX, MORE SEX, and well.....SEX. And yes....I am a 30 year old woman never married with 7 older brothers.....I know how you SOB's think...LOL.
  • Is it possible that stories are dragged out and every little detail is included? Get to the point first. Then if he is interested, give more details. If not, at least you got your main message across. Just remember, sometimes less really is more.
  • You need to recognize that not ALL men forget what you tell them. I have a boyfriend that remembers everything I say to him. Big or small. But the majority of the time either they are not listening or it doesnt involve them and they arent interested.
  • I don't forget things that are important. Be relevant or expect to be ignored.
  • I'm sorry. Did you say something?
  • we don't ...we just put the pap and dribble in the waste basket where it belongs
  • Because women say way too much thats not worth memorizing in the first place. EDIT:Yes thanks for the -5, I'd like a comment as to why. What I said was entirely correct.
  • Because you have to listen to remember and many are tuned out and turned off when it comes to listening.
  • They exercise a lot of critical thinking. They also have very important problem to study and figure out. They also have a lot of difficult and important decisions to make, so they are using their mind all the time. And most importantly and mainly they gotta pull a lot of BS and that requires a lot of mental dedication when the mental resources are limited. So you kind ladies got to cut them some slack.
  • It's called selective hearing!
  • Well its because men tend to have to work more then women at their job so they have a lot on their mind at one time
  • don't know,was the question again?:)
  • I wish mine would He can still remember the things I said when I was three.
  • They have selective hearing and they don't tend to empathize well, so they just think listening isn't important.
  • I'm sorry, whats the question? :)
  • That's pretty judgemental. I think women can be just as careless/forgetful, and men can be just as droll in conversation.
  • Convenience!
  • If a guy forgets what you told him, it could be he wasn't really listening in the first place. Or maybe he doesn't have the greatest memory, but should remember the important things (birthdays,etc...). It could be also that he might not care enough to know. Most of us guys might ask how is your day, we are expecting a great, good, bad type of answer. Not a minute by minute of your day. And after a long day or working he might just want to sit/lay down and relax, not talk for hours.
  • If it isn't sports statistics, food, beer, or sex, they hear nothing. So in order for them to remember what you tell them, they have to first hear it.
  • because the were never listening.
  • They have selective hearing and are in their own little world.
  • Some men dont forget anything. I am a female and I forget to retreive my grocery list that I have made and "forget" half of the items that I have placed on it.
  • It's called selective amnesia.
  • because you tell us so many other things
  • Some may not be listening. But I've had a guy a month after I told him something, quote it back word for word... Prolly should have checked him for a tape recorder. Some guys just don't have the attention span to listen to certain things that have nothing to do with them. Hell, I don't even sometimes. So I sympathize with them in getting this bad rep. You have to think about what it was you told him. If you're talking about something he doesn't care about, there ya go. If it's something he should care about, you wasn't talking while he was playing video games or watching tv, were you? That's a big factor too.
  • It was unimportant to him, he didn't have clarity in the question and was to lazy to ask you to repeat yourself.
  • They only have so much hard drive space.Some things just have to be deleted to make room.(or so I was told)
  • because they dont listen with their brains because their brains are between their legs hence why they forget what you tell them lol.
  • excuse me? Um women forget what I tell them. I asked my housekeeper to bring me a Courvarsior.....nope.
  • Wow. I feel really lucky, because the men in my life KNOW that they have NO choice but to listen to what I say, otherwise they're in trouble (especially my boyfriend). I kind of forget what they say sometimes...
  • Because we have inferior man-brains! It's something I deal with every goddamn day! We're not perfect like women, and that's why we love you and hate you! Jack
  • There is a microscopic gene present only in the male species that interferes with the ability to listen. It is a default gene approximated to be at least a million of years old, which enables the male of the species to watch something entertaining without being disturbed. It used to be something as simple as fire but now is as complex as television. Bottom line, the male brain is programmed to delete unnecessary information to store more room for fun and interesting things
  • almost all men are the same. they are not listening at all...or just part way so they say okay and nod there head to make you happy.
  • Because they were not listening. I've been guilty of such a thing. I tend to have quite a few masculine mannerisms. I remember a boyfriend of mine who was on the receiving end of a woman pretending to listen (that would be me). Makes me wonder if he thought "Now I know how a woman feels." Probably not. He's the type of person who's motto is "why me?"
  • Cuz they were either not listening.... OR...what I've realized... They DID listen but didn't deem it important enuf to retain the information.
  • Because when there mouth is moving their lien
  • Because the pay no attention to what you are talking about. You say did you hear me they will say yeah and the next time you ask them about it. They will say you didn't tell me that.
  • I don't remember last time I forgot something.
  • "Gender differences in memory: A series of experiments looking at memory performance in men and women has revealed that women did better at verbal episodic memory tasks, such as remembering words, objects, pictures or everyday events, and men outperformed women in remembering symbolic, non-linguistic information, known as visuospatial processing. But women were again better on tasks that require both verbal and visuospatial processing, such as remembering the location of car keys. Women were also better at remembering faces, especially female faces. They also remembered androgynous faces presented as female more accurately than the androgynous faces presented as male, suggesting the reason is that women pay more attention to female than to male faces. Women also performed better than men in tasks requiring little to no verbal processing, such as recognition of familiar odors. But environmental factors, such as education, seem to influence the magnitude of these sex differences. The findings appeared in the February edition of Current Directions in Psychological Science." Source and further information: http://www.memory-key.com/news/2008/news_2008Feb.htm#Gender
  • I don't. I have a pretty good memory.
  • Not all men are like this my brother has a good memory :)
  • Well i can assure you .. that is ENTIRELY beyond me !!
  • Research indicates that when it comes to remembering things, men are more likely than women to have mild cognitive impairment. Seriously. Though we ought to pretend we dunno they have it in them.
  • Because we have a horrible memory or some guys may be like in the movies when a person's talking and the person is "dazing off" and doesn't listen to a word they just said.
  • For the same reason women do.
  • Because you're a dingy twat.
  • I was once told the surest way to get a man to listen to what you say is to inject the phrase blowjob into the conversation a few times. It works.
  • The same reason woman would forget, maybe they weren't listening to begin with.
  • Perhaps they are not interested in what you have to say.
  • I think its because they want to know how serious you are...if you tell tham 5 times they consider it...and 10 times they know your serious and 15 times... they realise hell will break loose otherwise....
  • Oh, that's a big myth. C'mon, you look GOOD in green!
  • they have selective hearing
  • Some by choice, some are just a bit more absentminded. Others did not forget but they lie about it. Personally I remember things I consider important. Birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, and other symbolic things are very low on my list of priorities or not there at all. Also if its not anything enjoyable, practical or profitable according to my own personal filter, I tend to forget it as well. Selective retention.

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