@MentORPHEUS I should have elaborated more - "continuity of experience" is not soley applicable to women but the new generation of men growing up on smartphones as well. I can't tell you how many times in my life I have to not only OPEN to have a conversation but LEAD the entire conversation even so far as to END the conversation. otherwise they'll stand around and you can read their body language that they are making THEMSELVES awkward.

I grew up with TV too like most guys here and I remember getting older and thinking how brainwashed people were to associate their entertainment with real life. As if they were living a script from a movie or TV show. Or if something didn't go just right on a date with a woman like they would expect from a movie, then it wasn't "how it was supposed to be".

But now TV is dying. Hollywood knows this. And all the monopolies are cashing back into online streaming. But the take away is that the "new brainwasher" is the internet and our phones. Nothing we didn't already know but the KEY DIFFERENCE between movies and the web is that "continuity of experience" that is undoubtedly shaping their minds in the same fashion that daytime TV used to! I can see a future of "schizos" - we see it happening right before our eyes! I wonder now just how deep this schizo/continuity concept goes. Something I will be thinking about.

@RedRum It was a good post, and the web browser was an apt metaphor. However, these are not groundbreaking observations revealing an emergent new TYPE of female behavior, it's more a pivot into a new technological environment that facilitates a higher DEGREE of social and intellectual puddle-jumping by women.

@GayLubeOil and his friends spend a lot of time and effort trying to drive away people older than themselves, perhaps because they have witnessed firsthand decades more of human behavior, and are better able to discern what is actually new/different, and what is cobbled together to support a specific narrative.

Women have ALWAYS tended to live scatterbrained lives in modern times, evidenced by behaviors from "stream of consciousness" writing styles to inability to sit through a show or concerto without blurting out whatever brain fart pops into their head, thus missing crucial plot elements or movements, then dismissing them as "just background noise."

An interesting discussion would include what elements of this near schizoid female behavioral pattern arise from NATURE versus NURTURE. For example, during most of human history selective pressure for women to switch to an entirely new life when taken as a war bride. Also how during modern times women are not culturally incentivized to learn how to systematize information outside of a "story" about the people involved in discovery and inventive processes.

This tendency is both exploited and reinforced by advertising targeting women. Car commercials are a current example; those aiming at women emphasize the "real people" and the things they might do with the car, and invite them to the website to learn more about the people in the commercials' STORY.

I lived in the era before the internet, when there existed a few TV channels and households had ONE land line phone shared by all users. It manifested in different ways in that environment, but women back then also tended to have the attention span of a gnat.