The utility of solipsism

Evidence that solipsism knows no age limit, just in case you think it's likely that she's going to grow out of it one day:

A 4-year-old stray cat that was rescued from the streets of Rome has inherited a $13 million fortune from its owner, the wealthy widow of an Italian property tycoon. Maria Assunta left the fortune to her beloved kitty Tommaso when she died two weeks ago...

One of the hardest things for men to understand or even recognize its significance is female solipsism. What this means is that most women view everything from their own perspective. And by everything, I don't mean everything that directly or indirectly involves them, I mean everything. This, for example, is where the Team Woman concept comes from. As most observant individuals recognize, women aren't team players and habitually sabotage their female friends and relatives.

(No, you're not fat, in fact, you're TOO skinny... have another piece of cake! It would look so cute if you cut all your hair off. And definitely break up with your CEO husband who used to be a pro athlete, you can do so much better than him!)

And yet, a man can't make a negative comment about lesbian Finnish women with PhDs in Mongolian Horse Milking without straight American women who never went to college leaping to their defense and taking great personal umbrage that anyone might dare to suggest that Dr. Piia-Noora Kiviniemi-Damdinsüren could be anything less than fabulous. This is because even though a woman has absolutely nothing in common with Dr. Kiviniemi-Damdinsüren and possesses absolutely no opinion whatsoever on Mongolian Mare Milking, she nevertheless identifies with the other woman and therefore feels that your negativity towards the doctor is actually somehow an attack on her.

This is, of course, insane. But it is the way women naturally think, which is why it actually makes a degree of sense for a wealthy, childless woman to decide to leave millions of dollars to a cat she picked up off the street instead of choosing to do something that might benefit at least a few of the 7 billion people on the planet. The important thing is to grasp that this solipsism isn't a problem once it is understood, nor is it something to be criticized or confronted. It is simply there to be utilized in various ways. For example, a solipsistic woman allows for some truly subtle negs, as she can't reasonably object to comments that quite clearly have nothing to do with her, even though she feels they do, thus making deniability is not so much plausible as complete and material.