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On page four you asked: "why on god's green earth do guys only listen to other GUYS about girls???"
While on the one hand your query is predicated on a generalization, I can say the the flip side is a valid question as well. I don't think I could begin to tell you how many times I've been around two female friends of mine "dissecting" emails, texts, calls and other "signals" from the men in their respective lives. I keep my mouth shut for the most part, only daring to interject when I believe their analysis is so dangerously off point that they're compromising what I believe to be their stated goals. Ahh, the looks and verbal rebukes I get time and again....only to then have them regale me with tales of woe after a misunderstanding of some sort.
While I wholeheartedly endorse both genders looking to friends of the opposite for dating advice, I'm compelled to point out another flawed implication in your post....namely that men and women are homogeneous. We're surprisingly diverse and complex despite the similar wounds we share from our dating experiences.
