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Men!

I'm surrounded by them....frustrated by them...intrigued by them...

Did I mention frustrated by them? I happen to work in a male dominated business. My social circles, particularly here in Texas, are male-dominated and it just so happens that this geographical region seems to be male dominated (at least very much more than what I've experienced in Canada).

Now I sit here in this male dominated region of the USA about to spend a weekend with a group of men, while working in a male dominated industry, that is taking place amidst a male dominated sporting event and hoping all of us live to tell about it.

The nature/nurture debate aside, I certainly try not to buy into most stereotypical categorizations, but I have taken enough seminars and training sessions on the biological and physiological characteristic differences between men and women to respect that we are indeed wired differently.

So what's a girl to do? Granted, I can stand my own and I do - but in all honesty I find myself thinking time and time again the words: "and they say we're difficult to understand?"

My female friends and I often have this conversation. We find it somewhat amusing that we get pegged as mysterious or difficult to figure out when in fact we can finish each other's thoughts when only as much as two syllables being spoken. As pragmatic as men can be they seem to, in our feminine view, not be able to see what's clearly written with white chalk on a black board.

More than once lately I've found myself somewhat amused as I watch a man I'm having a conversation with sit there with the turning wheels of his brain clearly visible while he's trying to dissect every word I'm saying when in fact it's all laid out before him in black and white. There's no hidden meaning and if they don't know exactly where I stand on something if they'd just ask they'd get a direct answer immediately. For some reason they think we're masking identities when we're baring our souls.

Yes, I suppose its a given that their view from the other side is equally as amusing, intriguing and frustrating.

Take for instance my fifteen year old son's absolute confusion around why a women go to the restroom in pairs in public places. "Men don't ask their friends to go with them." he tells me. I shake my head at how quickly he's grown up and how far he has yet to go. I carefully give him a brief insight into a woman's world for his own benefit. I explain to him that its akin to

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