<p>Living here in the city, I have ample opportunity to people-watch, especially while they’re eating. There seems to be a lot of public eating going on around here!</p>
<p>One thing I’ve noticed is the difference in eating styles between men and women. When eating something out of a bag, like chips or nuts, women will dip their hand in and pick out the chip/nut with their fingers and put it in their mouth. Men will usually shake some out into their hand and then pop/cram the whole amount into their mouth. I thought this was a cultural thing, but my S & D ate like this when they were less than a year old, when they first started learning to feed themselves. S would grab a fistful and cram, D would daintily pick up one at a time.</p>
<p>Another eating one— I saw a guy eating in a restaurant in the window seat, on view for all passersby, and he was just shoveling the food into his face like he hadn’t eaten in a week. Can’t imagine any woman doing that!</p>
<p>Men rub their faces, often vigorously. Never seen a woman do that, reasons having to do with makeup no doubt.</p>
<p>Men touch their “privates”, a lot. You’ll never see a woman do that either!!</p>
<p>Men like to eat nuts in the shell, especially peanuts.</p>
<p>Anyone else notice these differences? Any other examples?</p>
<p>I’ve always done that - I guess that proves it; I really always was a girl!</p>
<p>No offense intended, and I know this is meant to be lighthearted, but this sort of generalized observation does bother me. Maybe it dates back to those awful 4th grade bullying games of asking boys how they looked at their fingernails or the backs of their feet, or how they crossed their legs, and then tormenting them if they “did it like a girl.”</p>
<p>So I think I’d better stay out of this thread from now on.</p>
<p>"One thing I’ve noticed is the difference in eating styles between men and women. When eating something out of a bag, like chips or nuts, women will dip their hand in and pick out the chip/nut with their fingers and put it in their mouth. Men will usually shake some out into their hand and then pop/cram the whole amount into their mouth. "</p>
<p>Wow - I never thought about this. My wife always complains that I stuff popcorn or potato chips in my mouth and I should take my time to enjoy it. She has even given me lessons on how to eat snacks.</p>
<p>Hmm. Our male dog stuffs his face–the bowl is empty in a matter of seconds. Our female (same breed) daintily eats the tidbits one at a time. The piggy male lies there sadly watching her finish, as if he thinks she got more to eat than he did, since it takes her several minutes, to his ten seconds.</p>
<p>Have you ever watched guys take off a t-shirt? They reach both hands behind their head, grab the shoulders and collar of the shirt, and draw it over the front of their head.</p>
<p>Women withdraw each arm from inside the shirt and then stretch the neck-hole carefully over their head, not to mess up their hair.</p>
<p>It’s not (for me anyway) about the hair, it’s about not smearing makeup on the edges of the shirt-neck. If I don’t have makeup on, I cross my arms in front and pull the shirt off over my head from front to back.</p>
<p>A lot of differences in habits among people have a functional reason, like not wanting to smear makeup on a shirt collar. That also explains a lot of habits older people have.</p>
<p>I used to notice an older guy at work who would crinkle up his nose when he looked at the material on the bulletin board. I never thought much about it until I got bi-focals. Then I discovered that if you crinkle up your nose, the magnifier part of your glasses raises up a tiny bit higher and you can read more of the page…lol. Now I notice a lot of people doing that little nose-crinkle thing.</p>
<p>Of course, that doesn’t explain the potato chip eating habits…</p>
<p>I really hate that touching of the privates habit that a lot of guys seem to have. Dave Barry jokes that men root around as if the Hope Diamond is in there somewhere. So true.</p>
<p>Also, why is it that when you talk to a woman and she’s looking right at you, she actually remembers what you said, but when you talk to a guy and he’s looking right at you he will swear later that the conversation never happened?</p>