Well Kate, in all honesty, I did not say women are impossible! I think the little visual aid I posted did show , in a perhaps amusing manner, the glory of women - and I admire women greatly, on the whole (Miley Cyrus , not so much at this particular time).
I once read a Saul Bellow novel, a long book, in which the forward action of the plot moved about .000000001 of a second in time (it seemed) BUT every little step forward in the plot was described in terms of all the ‘side-issues’ that were the point of the book - all the romances, the life lessons, the characters, the families - all that stuff together explained the slight forward movement.
The ‘side-issues’ are what women would call the real point of the book. I found it exhausting to read and kept thinking, with each ‘diversion’ from the plot - “Oh, what fresh hell is this?”
The ‘diversions’ were female in the best sense - the inner workings, the stories, the feelings, the ‘life-stuff’ that women seem to sense in even the simplest statements of their friends and lovers. I will say something to my wife, and she will return a question that appears to not even have a bearing on what I said. She will explain it, and I never, on the basis of my straight-ahead-male-thinking, would have gotten there.
IMO women have a richer understanding of the world.
We men are not just knuckle-dragging neanderthals, or mere trousered apes, of course - I mean we still have our place, however tenuous that may be - don’t we - but a world without women - what would be the point?