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    The Multi-Tasking Myth


    You know what I'm talking about, we've all heard it our entire life, you know, the one that goes "Women are multi-taskers", well to me, this is a myth, a lie that's used to make it appear that women do a lot or are over worked.

    I have asked countless women in the real world and the Internet this question, what is it that women can multi-task (doing two or more things at the SAME time) that a man can't, barring biological barriers?
    I have yet to hear a genuine answer to this question, but for fun I want to tell you some of the responses I've received;

    "Cooking, washing clothes and ironing". Well, the oven is cooking the dinner, the washing machine is doing the washing, only the ironing is being done by a human, plus, men can do that too, with the greatest of ease.

    "Dusting while singing to my child". Ridiculous, singing is hardly a task, but even if it was, a man could easily accomplish this.

    "Talking on the phone while smoking a cigarette". Seriously, this is what one woman told me, and of course, even if those were tasks, a man could do it.

    This is my favourite ever reply, "Giving birth while screaming". So screaming is now a task, and obviously men can't have kids, so it's unfair to call that a task, but if it is, it's one that couldn't be achieved without men taking part in the first place.

    I am sick and tired of this "fact" being taken for granted by women.
    So, can you think of a situation where a woman can multi-task where a man can't?
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    Re: The Multi-Tasking Myth

    My mother can talk bullshit while doing something entirely different. Does that count?

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    Re: The Multi-Tasking Myth

    "Most of what everybody knows is backwards."



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    Re: The Multi-Tasking Myth

    I can't multi-task for shit. I usually need to concentrate on one thing at a time but I prefer it that way because it means I do a more thorough job. When I worked in a call center the women I worked with could multi-task pretty well, most could talk and type something completely different at the same time. It sounds easier than it actually is.

    Try having a conversation with a friend then post a reply on here, not easy is it?

    Anyway my point is that even though they could multi-task better than me my overall call handling was way better because instead of trying to rush through everything by doing two things at once, I took my time and in the end was better off for it.


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    Re: The Multi-Tasking Myth

    The history of the world is the story of men multi-tasking.

    Civilization, art, chemistry, poetry, medicine, culture, science, language, architecture, physics, automation, technology, mining, farming, astronomy, electronics, industrialization etc, are just a few examples of how men have been succesfully multi-tasking for thousands of years without a fuss, creating something tangible which has benefited all of society.

    Now women, influenced by meaningless feminist buzzwords such as multi-tasking - in the absence of anything quantitive that parallels mens achievements - are laughingly boasting about undertaking several feeble acts simultaneously that seriously wouldn't tax most chimpanzees. As with any such claim, you have to look at 'the reality' before you buy the myth.

    This 'fevered' predisposition of society to incessantly praise modern women for undertaking some of the most simplistic of tasks, is reminiscent of how one praises and encourages a child. It's somewhat patronizing, and does nothing to promote genuine innovation amongst women.

    Squawking on the phone, whilst holding junior, and watching Oprah isn't multi-tasking. Nor is telling your husband another mans child is his, whilst keeping a straight face.
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    Aye.. Tis strange.. Most true multitasking women do involves talking while doing something trivial..

    Such as when they use both sets of lips at the same time..

    They do have an uncanny ability to focus on two simultaneous conversations though without getting them mixed up, I will give em that!!

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    They did a test on mulit-tasking and they were slower than those who focused on one tasked and finished it. Flipping from one topic to the next is entertaining at gossipfests, but the mind then lacks depth in any one of the topics, as one doesn't spend the time looking at it closely (as in a brainstorming think tank). This is why chit-chat is flippant and masks a lack of knowledge by hitting all the right notes (fashion) while not ascertaining whether an idea is true and deserves following.

    Women's brains are more designed this way with connectors between different paths of the brain, but lack the ability to go off into areas not found in the hub of the fashionable (Kim, Seikie & my wife are exceptions). This is how being fashionable reaffirms this kind of brain for the constant rolling through the inconnected parts of the brain strengthens the connectivity of all issues (whether they should be connected in mentally gymastic ways is not important to the person with this brain).

    I'm sure you have noticed this when effeminates talk. If you listen on many occasions you will start to notice they will start at the begining of their pathways with something fashionable, and then go over the same ground each time. The exception to this is with people in their pragmatic zone.


    By going through the pathways again and again, especially if something is fashionable, they reaffrim the pathways in their brains thus the egg and the chicken argument. They connect say, "How building a house is connected to the spirit of the house??"

    This is why many want all their grievances lumped into one grand theory or conspiracy, like the Manitoban Marko, as there just can't be vested interests combined with a main leadership in government screwing males (complex theory), it has to be the Jews + business+ feminist+ Russians+ distorted religious forces all working in a patchwork of sneakyiness (where the less proof you have the more sneaky and powerful they are to stop any evidence, or enough evidence getting out, to prove anything).

    Traditional religion is different and complex in that they connect things to evilness, and thus are not saying there is a group of people doing this as much as it is inside each of us (which I agree with).

    This need to connect things and change topics constantly is both the reason our society has followed feminism, wants more of it, AND ALSO WHY MOST MRAS LIKE TO DO THIS AND NOT STICK WITH EVEN ONE TASK UNTIL IT IS DONE!!!!! Gambling on short term fixes is an exampe of this, as it is exciting and can toss funds and time at fashionable ideas in the ranks- and passes as logical when it is fashionable.

    Effeminate brains succeed by reckonizing when something has become fashionable and then copying it with more emotion and hysteria, as to prove it was their idea in the first place (I was hip before you were hip).

    They then can rival the orginator of an idea, instead of working with them, because the are selfish and ambitious. They then go all out, with indirectness, to win.

    This can be seen in many inventors who think of an idea, make it and then have someone else make money at it (as the inventor can die poor but famous). Their mind is logical, not ambitious and Machivellian to a fault.

    In MRA circles you can see men like this as they inflame others to compete, by creating slites or making them up. Their lack of having anyone to really work in deeds, over the long term, shows their true effeminate nature of acting as part of the group as they develop cliques to get others to do things for them. They don't give & take, they only take.

    I know, I know, women gather and appear to have better unity, it is just in what they get done you can see their true lack of unity (or if there is a real threat and then they will abandon one another fast, with great rationalizations). We are suffering from the state funding such effeminate types (with our money), and so we see every act as so solid because fo so much backing. They must pay huge sums to get the smallest of things done, and this is all coming to an end as the well is running dry.

    We suffer in the MRA cause by men who claim to be against what is wrong with of state, but in fact were brought up by mom and act as she has taught him in this multi-tasking effeminate brain run amuck.

    Your thoughts on one focused topic?

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    Re: The Multi-Tasking Myth

    The myth of "multi-tasking" assumes that femiale superficial attention to several things is actually focusing attention on each of the things. It is rather the lack of ability to focus on anything.

    By comparison, men have an ability to focus deeply on a topic until it is thoroughly understood and even to go deeper beyond what was previously known. Men can also lose focus and be aware of more than one topic or item if we stop focusing on anything.

    In schools, girls are able to sit quietly and listen to the teacher for hours. Boys are unable to sit for periods without physical activity. In some sense boys are UNABLE to single task on the school work, where girls are quite able to single task.

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    Re: The Multi-Tasking Myth

    Of course women are better at multi-tasking than men are. When women drive they talk on their cell phones, brush their hair and put on make up. We men can only focus on the road.
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    Quote Quote from AKUUS View Post
    When women drive they talk on their cell phones, brush their hair and put on make up. We men can only focus on the road.
    But, I thought being female meant that they are automatically safer drivers than ALL men on the planet. I must have fell for that bullshit when some dungaree-clad, Dr Martin-wearing beaver eater with a bog brush hairdo spouted it, silly me

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    I think it's a myth.

    However, my daughter can talk on the phone having a three-way conversation with her friends while playing "Guitar Hero" on expert at the same time without missing a beat.

    I can't do that.

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    my daughter can talk on the phone having a three-way conversation with her friends while playing "Guitar Hero" on expert at the same time without missing a beat.
    God, I can't get past medium, but I'm using a keyboard as a guitar, that's my excuse. I assume she's using a phone she doesn't have to hold. Damn, I'm jealous of your daughter's GH skills, what age is she?

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    Timo is right. Only the feminised mind goes for that crap and most of the west has had its minds addled.Men, it is widely ‘felt’ - 'known', 'intuitively' - can only do things one at a time.

    This is so well known, it is almost an embarrassment raising this criterion at all. A bit of a shoo-in. Let’s keep it short.

    Men need to concentrate and find it takes effort to pay attention to several things at once and do things correctly, in logical order, to prevent mishaps.

    Women do many, many, many, things, simultaneously. With ease.

    All absolutely precisely. Effortlessly.

    She does not need to concentrate.

    She ‘intuitively’ 'knows’ the logical order.

    And anyway, she 'knows' that 'correct' is a political issue. Patriarchal. She NEVER makes a mistake.

    She tries not to worry that 99.7% of the World’s airline pilots are men who need to multi-task but can't and that's why they have Air Traffic Controllers to do half their work for them. Just look at those terrorists in aeroplanes who were so crap at multi-tasking that they crashed into those buildings. A woman terrorist wouldn't.

    Just think about something simple, like listening.

    Men, it seems, have ‘difficulty’ listening. They just can't hear when they are doing something else. Every woman 'knows' this but insist on testing it every day. Especially when he is watching Rugger.

    He has to concentrate and pay attention. He can only listen to one person at a time. Without talking himself. Can't multi-task, you see.

    Men have to focus their attention on the other person. Some even have to hear all that the other has to say (They WAIT until the other person has finished talking. ! Imagine that.) before they fully comprehend what they are saying. Often that is not possible anyway. Some people take a while to get to the point and often what they are saying is unstructured gibberish.

    Men have a real struggle integrating the tone and pitch, the words and associations alluded to; and excising all the ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’ that people use to confuse or when they are on brain-in-neutral, auto-mouth.

    In these circumstances he has to be very patient. (Sometimes it is just too much and he switches off for a moment or two. Like re-booting a computer). You can see it happen. If you aren't doing something else at the time.

    He has to try hard to read the emotions underlying what the other person is saying so that he can fully grasp the nuances of meaning.

    She, however, does not have to do ANY of these things. She can listen and talk at the same time, to vast numbers of people, all talking at once. Whilst watching TV and painting her toe nails.

    She’s friggin' Astounding !!!

    Five women talking all at once is a conversation. If a man speaks, he is interrupting.

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