Women and Men - Equally Creative?

[TipRoast]

 

[TipRoast]

Very nice article on creativity.

What is creativity? And how can we teach it?

Creativity is pushed as one of the future skills that every student needs, but what exactly is it, and how can you teach it? Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath explains all

www.tes.com

 

[imapig]

Women are brilliant Homo sapiens and masters in psychological warfare. If you were once married or is married, you will understand what I mean. 🤣

 

[John Locke]

Women are brilliant Homo sapiens and masters in psychological warfare. If you were once married or is married, you will understand what I mean. 🤣

I was married a long time ago, you know the story.

Disaster doesn't even cut it.

However, I find nothing gender specific in the psychological warfare department.

A tendency to feel the need to say things like, men are this or women are that, very much does a disservice to both.

We are all beautifully unique, individual human beings. Not a single one of us are exactly the same.

I hold a deep respect and admiration and love for many of the women who are in my life to this day.

Not all of them to be certain.

At least from the view from my stump, men and women have different challenges in life.

 

[Flagg the Wanderer]

I was married a long time ago, you know the story.

Disaster doesn't even cut it.

However, I find nothing gender specific in the psychological warfare department.

A tendency to feel the need to say things like, men are this or women are that, very much does a disservice to both.

We are all beautifully unique, individual human beings. Not a single one of us are exactly the same.

I hold a deep respect and admiration and love for many of the women who are in my life to this day.

Not all of them to be certain.

At least from the view from my stump, men and women have different challenges in life.

Dude...that sounds like dumb shit some b!tch would say before I shut her whore mouth and make her get me a sammich.

 

[John Locke]

Dude...that sounds like dumb shit some b!tch would say before I shut her whore mouth and make her get me a sammich.

How you got enough sex for like 32 kids is beyond me.

What am I talking about?

You guys must be rocking this stuff.

Me in the infernal and eternal "Friend Zone" almost always.

😅

I've got plenty of cash.

Teach me, please.

 

[Flagg the Wanderer]

Dude...that sounds like dumb shit some b!tch would say before I shut her whore mouth and make her get me a sammich.

I love that the board knows me well enough that I didn't even need the coffee guy, and I can't say that getting the bug-eyed omg guy from piggy of all people didn't feel good.

 

[deec77]

Dude...that sounds like dumb shit some b!tch would say before I shut her whore mouth and make her get me a sammich.

Arent you the one with many kidos lol I would never have it any other way... Respect...

~Dee~

 

[Hawg73]

I do a fair amount of woodworking, but I tend to do decorative/artistic stuff more than, say, furniture, and I like it very much when
I come up with an idea so that the project is mine and not a copy of something. In short, when I get a creative idea and it works
out well. I can draw, paint, carve and cut with a lot of detail and sometimes I can get a bit lost in the process of making something
unique just to see if I can create something that I can see in my mind, or somebody else thought of and challenged me to make it
real.

For instance, I followed a set of plans and made a Christmas display piece of a Polar bear (about 9 inches long) walking on ice
carrying a saddle bag loaded with an elf, a Christmas tree and various gifts and toys. It was fairly difficult and it came out nice, but
I started thinking that I wanted to do my own version to add to it. Maybe do a collection of an offbeat kind of Christmas delivery
if I got around to it. And it kept rattling around in my head. What did I see in my head?

So, I've been working on a stagecoach sleigh driven by a weird elf being towed by a big Yeti. Don't ask me why, because I don't
really know. I had no plans to work from and that made it more interesting because it was harder. I'll post a pic when it's done, but it's been a fun project
and my overall skill level gets better because I pushed myself in a different direction. My Wife loves Christmas and that was part of the motivation. And I wanted
to top the first one which some professional came up with and classified as "advanced". Am I capable of doing that? I think so, but we'll see
when it's done.

The point of all of this is that I definitely have a creative side and like using it because it's one of the things I've discovered that I can both do and
get something out of it. But, sometimes people will get a little weirded out by that as if it is not something a straight male should be doing. Which doesn't
bother me much at all, but I do notice it when it occurs. Both females and males can get a little uncomfortable and tell me, in their own way, they don't get
it. And they don't have to.

For instance, my Brother in Law is a construction worker, who sort of enjoys giving me a good-natured-but-edgy hard time. That's how he rolls. His usual
shtick is along the lines that real men don't waste time doing arty stuff and I should buy some guns or something. Anyhow, I had made several handmade Christmas
gifts for my Wife's Sisters including a wooden, dimensional sunflower wreath for BiL's Wife and everybody was impressed at how it came out. Sunflowers are
her motif/thing and I knew she would love it.

Anyhow, he later sent me a series of texts telling me how great it was and I think it was because he felt guilty that he gives me shit and I made something
that beautiful for his wife. And it clearly involved a fair bit of effort. Now, I'm a reasonably normal guy who likes beer football and a ton of other stereotypical
guy stuff, but I don't find it a major problem do do stuff that involves flowers. Or Elves. Masculine and Feminine isn't really part of my thought process. I
just like seeing what it is that I can do, because sometimes, if I'm not careful, I might surprise myself.

 

[imapig]

I do a fair amount of woodworking, but I tend to do decorative/artistic stuff more than, say, furniture, and I like it very much when
I come up with an idea so that the project is mine and not a copy of something. In short, when I get a creative idea and it works
out well. I can draw, paint, carve and cut with a lot of detail and sometimes I can get a bit lost in the process of making something
unique just to see if I can create something that I can see in my mind, or somebody else thought of and challenged me to make it
real.

For instance, I followed a set of plans and made a Christmas display piece of a Polar bear (about 9 inches long) walking on ice
carrying a saddle bag loaded with an elf, a Christmas tree and various gifts and toys. It was fairly difficult and it came out nice, but
I started thinking that I wanted to do my own version to add to it. Maybe do a collection of an offbeat kind of Christmas delivery
if I got around to it. And it kept rattling around in my head. What did I see in my head?

So, I've been working on a stagecoach sleigh driven by a weird elf being towed by a big Yeti. Don't ask me why, because I don't
really know. I had no plans to work from and that made it more interesting because it was harder. I'll post a pic when it's done, but it's been a fun project
and my overall skill level gets better because I pushed myself in a different direction. My Wife loves Christmas and that was part of the motivation. And I wanted
to top the first one which some professional came up with and classified as "advanced". Am I capable of doing that? I think so, but we'll see
when it's done.

The point of all of this is that I definitely have a creative side and like using it because it's one of the things I've discovered that I can both do and
get something out of it. But, sometimes people will get a little weirded out by that as if it is not something a straight male should be doing. Which doesn't
bother me much at all, but I do notice it when it occurs. Both females and males can get a little uncomfortable and tell me, in their own way, they don't get
it. And they don't have to.

For instance, my Brother in Law is a construction worker, who sort of enjoys giving me a good-natured-but-edgy hard time. That's how he rolls. His usual
shtick is along the lines that real men don't waste time doing arty stuff and I should buy some guns or something. Anyhow, I had made several handmade Christmas
gifts for my Wife's Sisters including a wooden, dimensional sunflower wreath for BiL's Wife and everybody was impressed at how it came out. Sunflowers are
her motif/thing and I knew she would love it.

Anyhow, he later sent me a series of texts telling me how great it was and I think it was because he felt guilty that he gives me shit and I made something
that beautiful for his wife. And it clearly involved a fair bit of effort. Now, I'm a reasonably normal guy who likes beer football and a ton of other stereotypical
guy stuff, but I don't find it a major problem do do stuff that involves flowers. Or Elves. Masculine and Feminine isn't really part of my thought process. I
just like seeing what it is that I can do, because sometimes, if I'm not careful, I might surprise myself.

You can’t fault a man that loves to play with his wood.

 

[TipRoast]

I do a fair amount of woodworking, but I tend to do decorative/artistic stuff more than, say, furniture, and I like it very much when
I come up with an idea so that the project is mine and not a copy of something. In short, when I get a creative idea and it works
out well. I can draw, paint, carve and cut with a lot of detail and sometimes I can get a bit lost in the process of making something
unique just to see if I can create something that I can see in my mind, or somebody else thought of and challenged me to make it
real.

For instance, I followed a set of plans and made a Christmas display piece of a Polar bear (about 9 inches long) walking on ice
carrying a saddle bag loaded with an elf, a Christmas tree and various gifts and toys. It was fairly difficult and it came out nice, but
I started thinking that I wanted to do my own version to add to it. Maybe do a collection of an offbeat kind of Christmas delivery
if I got around to it. And it kept rattling around in my head. What did I see in my head?

So, I've been working on a stagecoach sleigh driven by a weird elf being towed by a big Yeti. Don't ask me why, because I don't
really know. I had no plans to work from and that made it more interesting because it was harder. I'll post a pic when it's done, but it's been a fun project
and my overall skill level gets better because I pushed myself in a different direction. My Wife loves Christmas and that was part of the motivation. And I wanted
to top the first one which some professional came up with and classified as "advanced". Am I capable of doing that? I think so, but we'll see
when it's done.

The point of all of this is that I definitely have a creative side and like using it because it's one of the things I've discovered that I can both do and
get something out of it. But, sometimes people will get a little weirded out by that as if it is not something a straight male should be doing. Which doesn't
bother me much at all, but I do notice it when it occurs. Both females and males can get a little uncomfortable and tell me, in their own way, they don't get
it. And they don't have to.

For instance, my Brother in Law is a construction worker, who sort of enjoys giving me a good-natured-but-edgy hard time. That's how he rolls. His usual
shtick is along the lines that real men don't waste time doing arty stuff and I should buy some guns or something. Anyhow, I had made several handmade Christmas
gifts for my Wife's Sisters including a wooden, dimensional sunflower wreath for BiL's Wife and everybody was impressed at how it came out. Sunflowers are
her motif/thing and I knew she would love it.

Anyhow, he later sent me a series of texts telling me how great it was and I think it was because he felt guilty that he gives me shit and I made something
that beautiful for his wife. And it clearly involved a fair bit of effort. Now, I'm a reasonably normal guy who likes beer football and a ton of other stereotypical
guy stuff, but I don't find it a major problem do do stuff that involves flowers. Or Elves. Masculine and Feminine isn't really part of my thought process. I
just like seeing what it is that I can do, because sometimes, if I'm not careful, I might surprise myself.

Thanks for posting that, Hawg. A fine addition to the thread, you poofter.

 

[TipRoast]

Two creative people, a woman (Linda Manzer) and a man (Pat Metheney).

The story of the Pikasso guitar

The 42-string acoustic guitar made famous by jazz legend Pat Metheny.

guitar.com

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[John Locke]

I do a fair amount of woodworking, but I tend to do decorative/artistic stuff more than, say, furniture, and I like it very much when
I come up with an idea so that the project is mine and not a copy of something. In short, when I get a creative idea and it works
out well. I can draw, paint, carve and cut with a lot of detail and sometimes I can get a bit lost in the process of making something
unique just to see if I can create something that I can see in my mind, or somebody else thought of and challenged me to make it
real.

For instance, I followed a set of plans and made a Christmas display piece of a Polar bear (about 9 inches long) walking on ice
carrying a saddle bag loaded with an elf, a Christmas tree and various gifts and toys. It was fairly difficult and it came out nice, but
I started thinking that I wanted to do my own version to add to it. Maybe do a collection of an offbeat kind of Christmas delivery
if I got around to it. And it kept rattling around in my head. What did I see in my head?

So, I've been working on a stagecoach sleigh driven by a weird elf being towed by a big Yeti. Don't ask me why, because I don't
really know. I had no plans to work from and that made it more interesting because it was harder. I'll post a pic when it's done, but it's been a fun project
and my overall skill level gets better because I pushed myself in a different direction. My Wife loves Christmas and that was part of the motivation. And I wanted
to top the first one which some professional came up with and classified as "advanced". Am I capable of doing that? I think so, but we'll see
when it's done.

The point of all of this is that I definitely have a creative side and like using it because it's one of the things I've discovered that I can both do and
get something out of it. But, sometimes people will get a little weirded out by that as if it is not something a straight male should be doing. Which doesn't
bother me much at all, but I do notice it when it occurs. Both females and males can get a little uncomfortable and tell me, in their own way, they don't get
it. And they don't have to.

For instance, my Brother in Law is a construction worker, who sort of enjoys giving me a good-natured-but-edgy hard time. That's how he rolls. His usual
shtick is along the lines that real men don't waste time doing arty stuff and I should buy some guns or something. Anyhow, I had made several handmade Christmas
gifts for my Wife's Sisters including a wooden, dimensional sunflower wreath for BiL's Wife and everybody was impressed at how it came out. Sunflowers are
her motif/thing and I knew she would love it.

Anyhow, he later sent me a series of texts telling me how great it was and I think it was because he felt guilty that he gives me shit and I made something
that beautiful for his wife. And it clearly involved a fair bit of effort. Now, I'm a reasonably normal guy who likes beer football and a ton of other stereotypical
guy stuff, but I don't find it a major problem do do stuff that involves flowers. Or Elves. Masculine and Feminine isn't really part of my thought process. I
just like seeing what it is that I can do, because sometimes, if I'm not careful, I might surprise myself.

Beautiful and perfect.

You just nailed it.

 

[John Locke]

Thanks for posting that, Hawg. A fine addition to the thread, you poofter.

Poofta?

Haven't heard that one in a while.

😂

 

[BostonTim]

Really a small thought we are individuals. I imagine that women and men are creative in their fashion. I imagine their creativity as different and thus not equal. Regardless as to how you may view creation, I just see both genders as simply ESSENTAL complimentary components to the plan, whosever's plan it may be.

 

[John Locke]

Really a small thought we are individuals. I imagine that women and men are creative in their fashion. I imagine their creativity as different and thus not equal. Regardless as to how you may view creation, I just see both genders as simply ESSENTAL complimentary components to the plan, whosever's plan it mayfists.

Yes, completely agree.

That's what I was getting long-winded about at 3 am in my post above.