Why Is It So Hard For Men and Women To Listen To Each Other Get our free mobile app So if you missed our chat, it had to do with conversations that we find boring and asked the listeners what topics they tune out. Your answers ranged from "someone's else pets" to "my girlfriend's day at work." For me, the bigger question is: Why don't men and women listen to each other? Yes, we know the other is talking but we don't hear each other sometimes. We hear things that we are personally interested in like our favorite food and sports. I had a conversation recently that was going very well and the next thing I know, it was in the ditch. I'm not sure how it got there so fast and the harder I tried, the worse it got.