While I realize that taking offense at a man’s opinion, his feelings, and at his answers to a direct question is a woman’s prerogative, I would like to submit that this is an irrational and counterproductive female behavioral pattern due to men’s preference for avoiding unnecessary emotional conflict.
Not only is this offense-taking unnecessary, manipulative, and annoying, but it absolutely guarantees that any man with even a modicum of self-control is going to leave you entirely in the dark about his opinions, his feelings, and even what is going on in his life. I’ve heard many women complain over the years that their husbands and sons are increasingly closed-off to them, and I’ve yet to observe any of them recognizing that they, and their behavior, are the culprit, and that this habitual reserve on the part of the men in their lives is an obvious reaction to their proclivity to take offense so easily......
