Does she want more? Man's constant misreading of nonverbal ques

I found these two great cartoons about how society tends to feel that men have more trouble with the reading of non-verbal communication that women seem to.

 In this photo the woman has in mind that get nonverbal means that she needs help with homework. However, the man is reading her non-verbal to mean that she is intrested in him and he seems to be playing out a whole future for them (haha). Granted she might be sending mixed cues to get him to do her homework.

The next photo hits a little closer to the subject.

This photos shows that the woman obviously does not want the man to speak to her or have anything to do with her, yet he is open and friendly as if he might be about to advance toward her. This cartoon is a better represntation of what it seems that society tends to feel about a man misreading verbal cues. I was watching a law and order episode a moment ago that really sparked my idea for this blog, however I was unable to find the clip! In the episode a man had kidnapped a young girl and told police that they were in love because she always smiles and says hey to him. That is a bit of an extreme in the idea of misreading nonverbal communication. However, it actually happends more than we think! Someone smiles and is nice and open and then someone else takes the gestures to mean more than they really do. Take it for what you want I just thought it was interesting that nonverbal communication was the first thing that popped in my head during the episode :)