Women Are Strange Creatures.

Question: Why can girls be so weird?

I really don't understand why some girls think it is necessary to go everywhere in a HUGE group. Or why girls can have such a hard time just saying what they really think. After giving this a little thought, I can completely understand how some guys are so confused. Heck, I don't even know why I sometimes do some of the weird "girl things" that I do.

For example, we can be sooo tricky. To me at least, it seems like girls are much better at gathering information, and creating and executing elaborate plans to gain that information. It is now starting to make sense to me why most of the journalism students are female. Most of us are already practicing the information gathering skills the industry demands. I don't think men realize what lengths some women will go to, to find out what they want to know.

For example, my friends and I have googled a good number of their possible love interests. We have monitored blogs of the person in question, clicked the links on their pages to find out what their friends are like, or looked up their ex-girlfriends to see what the competition is.

I guess sometimes it is the other way around too. We've looked up their ex-boyfriends, hoping to find that their lives are much worse off now that which ever one of my friends who used to date him isn't in it any more. We check out the new girlfriend, hoping she's a hideous, morbidly obese swamp monster. It has never turned out that way, but we can usually point out enough flaws (most of which we are probably just imagining) to determine that our friend is indeed prettier and the new girlfriend is a definite down grade.

Maybe I'm way off base here, but I don't think guys do that kind of stuff.