girls are weird

You ever notice how at big parties, you frequently get conversation migration such that the women and men separate like oil and water? Sure, there's some mixing, but for the most part, you get little clumps, organized by sex.

I've been in several situations in the last few weeks where it was me and a gaggle of women, and it's made me realize that the conversational style of the sexes is vastly different.

Sure, guys talk about cars and farting and robots, and women get bored with us. Everyone knows that.

What's bizarre is how women talk. (Well, bizarre to me and my penis).

Often in groups of women, there's this completely unordered stream of consciousness type conversational flow, where anything that any girl says can remind another girl of something, and they just start talking about it. Often in mid sentence. While the other girl is talking.

And they don't seem to mind, or think this is rude at all!

I can't really wrap my head around this. I'm used to conversations where a topic is raised, and people give their opinions about it, or raise points, and then once everyone has said their piece, or it's clear that no one is going to change their mind, another topic is raised. If someone else has something to say, they mentally file it into a queue, and they use this as the next conversational topic when a lull arises.

Let me give you an example of how the conversation appeared to me recently:

Girl: "What do you think about X?"
Me: "Well, I think that..."
Girl1: "OH MY GOD I LOVE THAT RESTAURANT!"
Girl2: "Yeah, it's great, but I don't like their curry"
Girl1: "You know who has great curry? This other place"
Me: "Uh, anyway, like you just asked me, I think..."
Girl2: "Jesus, what is that guy doing!" (regarding another driver)
Girl1: "Look at that beautiful dog!"
Girl3: "HELLO DOGGY!"

and so on, and so on...

I'm not really able to let go of the linear nature of my mind, and just let conversations flow from moment to moment, whatever stray impulse hits the brain of people around me. It's not ordered, and it doesn't allow for very much depth.

Not only that, but sometimes I get the impression that they're not actually listening to each other. They all feel the need to talk and have other people listen, but they are somehow able to all do it at the same time, and feel satisfied. Or maybe they've mastered the art of listening while talking.

It's very strange mental wiring. And it never seems to happen one-on-one, it's a phenomenon of multiple women, like a specialized protocol. I'd love to see the RFC for that one.

If you'll excuse me now, I've got to go find some dudes, I just saw a video of a farting robot that I need to show them.