The truth?

To start this one off, I give you another good one by Oscar Wilde:

"She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the
secret of their charm."

The secret of their charm or of their demise, I often wonder.

It seems to me that men and women live in a web of miscommunication. It's not much different from the "whisper down the alley" game we used to play when we were children. The woman says something clearly on one end, and on the other end, the man receives some garbled mess of language that he can't quite make out. (Actually, throw a foreign language into the mix and it gets even more complicated). But let's analyse this a bit more. How clear is the woman REALLY being? What are her intentions? In "whisper down the alley," you say a clear statement, but by nature of playing the game, you know that what you say will probably be received wrongly in the end. So subconsciously, do you, perhaps, choose a more difficult phrase to say-- one that can be misconstrued in all sorts of ways to prompt an interesting response at the other end?

In the game of relationships, do women and men do the same to each other? If we issue a completely clear statement, we are bound to it in many ways... and if we are not completely sure ourselves, maybe we don't necessarily want the other person to receive our communications so clearly after all. So then whose fault is it for the misunderstanding?

Being a woman, it's hard to fault my own kind ;-) But sometimes a bit of self-reflection is worth mentioning. So apologies to all of you, who over the years (you know who you are), have sometimes been on the receiving end of my baffling, blown-up, or completely bastardized statements of "truth."

Anyway, it was Eve who tempted Adam with the apple in the first place, wasn't it?