I think the fact that women have to deal with potentially dangerous situations from a very young age on (harassment, cat calling, walking home alone in the evening while having a vagina etc) plays a part in this as well. They learn very early how to tell when other people, particularly men, are angry or tense or…

Wait there is something about not putting guacamole on a burrito? Because that's incorrect.

Time to get QUESO!!!

Suspend beef, not guacamole! That would be a much bigger win for everyone involved, I can't believe it's even a question to get rid of guac before beef. It's kind of ironic actually - climate change is at the root of the rising costs, yet they're keeping the menu item that contributes most to more climate change. Get…

. . . thanks to hotter temperatures that will affect California (where delicious avocados come from).

My problem with the "I can't read your mind" issue is that when it's about regular life stuff, communicating it makes me feel like my partner's mom and/or a nag (and we all know women who don't expect their mind's to be read get accused of this). If I need to constantly ask you to take out the trash, help me with the…

"I've always wondered why it seems like women tend to be most guilty of this."

I noticed that every time my husband and I gathered for weekends at the in laws that he and his brother were not chipping in. I always made certain to make one meal for our hosts and other guests, and to make an effort after meals to pitch in.
It chapped my hide, I was always surprised at the differences in how we were…

My husband's timing for cleaning is always about 30 seconds after I'm flaming pissed and do it myself. "I was just about to do that!" Were you "about to do" for the last four hours?

Huh? If you're having a party at your house, surely you know what's happening? How can you find it "already clean?" Did you leave your house at the end of the party, so you didn't see the people cleaning up? In any case, I was referring more to any social gathering where clean-up isn't a specific person's…

This is absolutely true. Women are expected to take care of people, and men aren't trained the same way. Even in 2014, if I'm at a dinner or a party, at the end, the men are all sitting around joking with each other, and the women are helping to clean up. Thoughtlessness is more tolerated in men than women.

I can tell by the look in someone's eyes the second they stop listening and start formulating their reply. Then I stop talking and exit the conversation as quickly as possible. Nine times out of ten they are going to interrupt me and shout me down to get their two cents in before they get sidetracked by another…

I think that's part of it, and I think it's also that women are taught to anticipate the needs of others. We're taught that we should clean things before they are brought to our attention, to be prepared with a beverage or a snack if someone might want one, etc. It's apparently part of being a good…

To take your point a step further - women do get that message from others and can unfairly expect men to intuit everything. But I think we women can also have those same unfair expectations of ourselves. I can't imagine, as a woman, if I ended up in the scenario in #2, complaining to my friends about it. I would feel…

Guess What!

My issue is that the article finishes with the conclusion that "Empathy is the most important skill," but a lack of empathy is sometimes the problem that causes number 2. So of course you could say to your partner "I've been looking after the baby all day and I'm throwing up, could you stick around and look after me"…

The old "This is what I hear you saying." thing really is great. Paraphrasing back what your partner has said lets them find out whether they actually got their point across like they meant and heads off confusion early in the discussion.

Talk to the hand isn't one?