Men and Women. My wife told me about a comparison she had heard. Women are like spaghetti on a plate; men are like waffles. A woman's thoughts are in touch with lots of things at once, intricately coiled, and you never know where the end will be. A man's thoughts are compartmentalized. Thus, a man is bothered when a woman starts off by talking about the plumbing and ends up talking about her niece's wedding; he wants to separate things out and resolve one problem at a time.