A lesson on how to talk to women…

As in, …. ‘every guy (especially in Tech School) needs a lesson on how to talk to women’….

Common refrain. From many women. In college especially. Especially in Tech colleges….

Which makes me wonder, why don’t women need some lessons on how to talk to men? Especially tech-college guys? Why is the art of being able to talk to women such a treasured commodity?

Now Mword, here’s one of those rare MCP posts, and you are allowed your rant, but here’s the question….

Is it because women assume that they should be wooed, and not vice versa? Ahem, hang on, weren’t we talking equal opportunity here? And speaking of tech colleges, isn’t the issue primarily that of supply and demand? Basically that girls are fewer to be found in tech school, so there’s this associated prima-donna status, and we Indian males are oh so openly desparate (and from my limited experience I say, so are the women, just a little more covertly so, that’s all…)…

On the same point, ther is a common refrain that tech college guys are boring. I would beg to differ (and with some amount of pride I say that I have some credibility here, I have rarely been called boring, by women or men); and I will mention that there are a host of interesting tech-school guys waiting to be found.

So you would like your man to hold a conversation with you on books or movies or similar stuff; here’s the question, ladies. Can you hold a conversation on football? Or trekking? or guitar tabs? or cars? or heaven forbid, motorbikes? Seriously, who is boring here? Can you hold a conversation with a guy? Or is it only the guy’s responsibility to hold a conversation?