What is your experience with this?

[ElboRuum]

I, occasionally, am flabbergasted by some of the "theoretical underpinnings" that women (some, not all of course) have of male behaviors that differ from their own. Some of these theories are so far afield of anything resembling common sense and reason that I wonder if they've every actually sated their obvious curiosity with something as simple and as revealing as an actual direct question to a male.

Or if they have, did the conversation go like this:

Woman: "Why do men do/like/need to XYZ?"

Man: "Well, I can't speak for all men, but I'd say most men do/like/need to XYZ because PDQ or LSMFT, while the rest possibly do/like/need to because of OMGWTFBBQ."

Woman: "Hmm. No, that can't be it. Thanks anyway, I'll keep looking."

Now, before you ask, let me give you what the specific inspiration for this is. I was reading a post which I generally agreed with (and do still), but the poster offered up a psychosocial mini-treatise on some male behavioral phenomenon that left me kind of shaking my head in just how far off the mark it was. I can, and do, routinely, try not to let this kind of riffing bother me when the point is otherwise solid, but the remark left me wondering: "Where are you getting this tripe from? Did you actually ask anyone male before you decided to offer it up this way to see if it held any water at all?"

I just find it simultaneously amusing and disheartening.