Women

Women are complicated. Everyone knows this. It doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman, other women are hard to deal with. On the surface, they seem like such simple, predictable creatures. The closer you look, though, the more tiny facets shine forth, the more little nuances you hear, the more details you have to pay attention to. Their complexities extend far beyond any man's.
Women have to be taken seriously at all times. It does not pay to be ignorant or naive towards women. It will end up poking you right in the back, and then you will realize that you did not pay close enough attention, and now you're paying for it. I don't think there is ever going to be a clear-cut way to pinpoint women's behavior, but I think I've come up with a pretty worthwhile analogy that would help us understand women a little better.
Women are like patrons of an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant. They all come to the buffet with different ideas, different mindsets, yet they have the whole world to choose from. They are all kinds of women. And they all want something different. Maybe there are women who all they want is power, so they load their plates up with steak, or other protein-heavy foods, and they get a really beefy diet, so that by the end of the meal, they are the most powerful women in the restaurant, and they've out-eaten every other male or female in there. Maybe they even walk out with a free meal.
Perhaps there are women who only want sex, so they go back plate after plate, just getting dessert. What that does to their diet, their body, and their personality, they won't know until after they've ingested it. It tasted so good when they were eating it, but they'll have to deal with the consequences.
There are women who want nothing, and so maybe they just get a plate with a couple peas and mashed potatoes or something, just enough to fill them up.
Maybe there is a woman who only wants a man, a companion, and so she just grabs a plate and a single hot dog bun, but no hot dog. And maybe she scans the whole restaurant searching for the guy who is sitting there alone eating his hot dog with a knife and fork, because he can't find the appropriate bun to match him.
Maybe there are women who go through the buffet thinking they know what they want, and so they scarf down something, but find that it's not actually what they wanted, and end up throwing it up twenty minutes later. Maybe there are the women who don't find anything that they like, and they create a smörgåsbord of their own and eat something they made for themselves that nobody else could have made any better.
Maybe there are the women who go through with eyes bigger than their stomachs, and they get too much, and they end up sitting at their tables pushing their plates away because they just can't take any more. Maybe there are women who all they want is food. And they just keep eating until they get kicked out of the restaurant. They can do that, they're at a buffet, after all. Maybe there are women, who all they want is a good, healthy balanced meal, that will leave them content.
The point is, for all these women, the buffet is the same. The same options are being offered for everyone, it costs the same $5.95 for everyone who enters. But what you get out of it is totally up to you. Life is the buffet and you have an infinite amount of choices. But you have to choose wisely, because sooner or later, you're going to get full, and you're not going to be able to go back to that buffet for a long time.