To supplement the advice given to NEVER correct a woman who says, “Correct me if I’m wrong.”
Here are five other important X-linked characteristics:
1. The “we need to talk” gene. Everyone subjected to it knows it’s the “No, SHE needs to talk and talk and talk” gene.
2. The “I’m not telling you any problems I have so you can analyze them and devise a solution because, if you try that, then you will only have increased my number of problems” gene.
3. The “I know a 45” wide sofa at its narrowest dimension will fit through a 36” wide door set in the left hand wall at the very end of a hall narrower than the length of the sofa and opening onto to a stairway with a landing halfway up and if you hold up a tape measure and say it’s not possible then that only means you don’t want to do it” gene. I have seen EXACTLY this one and the proof she offered that it was so was that another guy didn’t want to move it, either. Later the other guy laughed and laughed and say, “I know! The only way that sofa was going to get through there was in pieces and I told her that” after which she asked me.
4. The “after you’ve gotten your guy hooked on trim, find out what things he really likes to do and then figure out how many ways you can use that fostered dependency to manipulate him or just destroy every simple pleasure in his life that doesn’t revolve around you” gene.
5. The “remember every single effing thing he’s ever said or done or should have said or done or ever failed to say or do and then bring it up when you need to distract him because he’s about to win an argument or because he’s actually right or because he’s feeling too good or just because” gene.
As to the criticism of men not wanting to stop to ask directions:
Maybe the guys are just averse to the possibility of the direction-giver being a woman who needs to talk who will tell them they should have turned this or the other way at any of many previous points along a variety of earlier routes who may very well be combining those X-linked characteristics with that of faulty spatial reasoning in an attempt at gender-affirming tag-team action with another member of the sisterhood standing right behind the guys and preparing for her a covered dish heaped with “objective” evidence to use when getting back in the car to keep the ball rolling.