It's Not Men Don't Listen, It's All in How We Hear

Breaching this subject right after Valentine's Day seems like questionable timing. But when it comes to addressing topics others might find problematic, I live by the old saying: If you can't be bold, be stupid.

Hence, I'd like to talk about interaction between males and females; what experts refer to as "relationships."

Specifically, I've been doing what is known as "research" into a problem between men and women that probably dates to prehistoric times -- the complaint from females that their significant male has Guy Attention Deficit Syndrome (GADS).

It seems a majority of women assert that during verbal exchange (also called "conversation"), their male "tunes me out" or "doesn't pay attention to me."

Difficult as it is to believe, my wonderful wife Karen suggests that I suffer from GADS -- she suggests it at least once a day, in fact. So, it was pursuit of harmony at home that prompted my research into this difference between men and women.

What I've discovered is startling, but it's based on SCIENTIFIC FACT that was accumulated by REAL SCIENTISTS.

Ladies, if you're trying to have a conversation with your man and all you get back is a blank stare or a series of "Uh huhs" and disassociated head nods, it's not an indication your man isn't listening. The problem isn't GADS, it's a genetic difference in the manner in which men "hear" women.

According to very smart people at the University of Sheffield in England, the male brain (if your man has one) is not wired to listen to women. We're talking structural differences in the gray matter, not selective disinterest or insufferable rudeness, as many females suspect.

The University of Sheffield's Web site notes that when researchers played recordings of male and female voices for a test group of males, they found that the men deciphered male and female voices in different parts of their brains.

Men apparently process female voices in the auditory section of the brain, which also handles music.