The difference between boys and girls, vol. 1 (first draft)

These are stark generalizations. If you are a member of alleged boy v. girl categories and feel the description is highly misrepresentative of the group, please comment. If the description merely does not describe YOU, then you're just that cool and can't be put into cookie cutter category. Feel free to edit/add.

1. Planning
Girls like to plan. Boy's don't. Sure there's the wayward evening that boys like to conjure up and buy some beer for in advance, but for day to day events, they generally don't like to plan. And don't think it's necessary. Girls like to hang out and have planning meetings over coffee. Girls send emails organizing their social schedule for the week to make sure they're on the same page and to sort out any time conflicts. Girls like to organize their schedule for the day in their head, so that they get home from kickboxing in time for a shower and blowdry, and so they arrive ON TIME to wherever they're going. Girls like to round up the crew up to ten minutes before the necessary departure time to arrive somewhere ON TIME so that last minute running upstairs, shoe tying, and which car are we taking can be taken care of. Girls like to think about who's going to ride in which car with whom, so that no one feels left out or uncomfortable. Girls think about multiple upcoming social events so they can plan their outfits accordingly. Boys find it unnecessary to waste any precious cognitive resources on these issues.

2. Eating
No, this isn't a boys eat and girls don't. Everyone eats, and everyone should eat. It's HOW they eat. Perhaps this should be embedded within the planning section. Girls like to eat on a schedule. It's more than liking to eat on a schedule... girls NEED to eat on a schedule. And when I say NEED, I mean we'll get a bad headache, nausea, and low tolerence for anything remotely irritating if we don't get our three balanced meals a day. That means, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Or on sleeping-in weekend mornings, brunch and dinner. And when I say brunch, I don't mean 4pm. And when I say breakfast, I don't mean 4pm. This doesn't mean that girls necessarily eat more than boys. Boys don't deal with breakfast and could go the entire day without eating. Only to break that day of fasting with an enormous helping of [Carl's 6-dollar burger/grilled steak/block of cheese].

3. Lying
There are some situations in which lying is necessary, and it could be argued that it is a constructive way of handling the situation. I am not talking about these situations. Outside of that, boys lie. Girls don't. Girls don't think it's worth it to lie because it leads into crazed spirals of deception unnecessarily. Boys don't like the guilt or crazed spirals either, but they still lie. And because girls don't lie and boys do, girls give other people (especially girls) the benefit of the doubt in not lying. Boys don't. They wouldn't put it past anyone to fabricate a detailed story to lie when the lie is unecessary.

to be continued.