First, let us look at life as a playground. When little girls play, they are given dolls and toys attached to emotions. They are taught to love, play nice, stay clean, and try to look proper and pretty. Mostly, however, little girls are taught "people skills." They are given toys and situations having to do with relating and connecting to people.

While the little girls are off learning to socialize, the boys go play with their toys that are associated with war, fighting, or building. While little girls are taught to hold anger in and be proper at all times, little boys are taught to throw, fight, and hit things to let their emotions out. Now keep in mind that human beings, by nature, are prone to anger and frustration, and girls have just as much as boys do. How we manage it, however, determines how we interact with others. 

So here we are, years later, and those little girls and boys are all grown up and sitting together. We figure that what they did on the playground ten to fifteen years ago has nothing to do with how they act now, but let's just look at this closer. The little girl that was told to keep all negative emotions to herself is still treated the same way. You'll notice that in class, when a girl is down in the dumps, she is bombarded with "Are you ok?" "What's wrong?" and "Cheer up!" 

We see, however, that when a boy is acting the same way, he does not have to answer to his sudden display of imperfection. Boys are more likely to play sports because they have been taught that this is a means of releasing aggression. Girls talk about their feelings with other girls, but this is often not enough, and girls become very emotional due to the build up of all the feelings they have been taught to keep to themselves.

What cannot be overlooked, in addition to what girls are taught when they are young, is the world girls face today. Girls are held to a much higher, super-human standard than they were twenty years ago. The media produces a definition of beauty with which it is impossible to compete. What is overlooked is that most of Hollywood's examples of beauty not only have plastic surgery to look as they do, and have professional make up artists and hair stylists, but are still often "touched up" by computer imaging. 

Girls also feel more stress to become not only equal to males, but to surpass them in order to prove that women are just as good, if not better than men. This, in addition to the pressures of high school, popularity, life, responsibility, and the various important choices that have to be made, sends girls into an emotional roller coaster from which they have no means of escaping.
Guys and girls communicate very differently. When girls have a problem, they often talk about it with their friends. However, when a boy has a problem, he does not share it unless he needs help because needing help (to a boy) is a sign of weakness. It is only when he needs a solution that he will talk about the problem. This is why, when a girl wants to talk about a problem with a guy, he automatically begins to offer solutions. Then the girl is offended because girls do not generally solicit advice; they just want someone to listen, not offer solutions. 

So, it would be thought that boys tend to lie to girls in order to avoid confrontation, but we have just seen from evidence that boys are conditioned for confrontation. However, boys are also taught to be in control of a situation, to take charge. Well, is anyone in charge of something they don't really understand? No. Boys just don't understand girls (and vice versa), so they are, for the most part, afraid of confrontation with girls because they do not understand them. In order to avoid this confrontation, they often lie. It's ironic, because they often lie out of fear, and they are supposed to be the ones with all the courage.

There is really no problem as long as we learn to communicate. Girls should feel special when guys trust them enough to share their problems, and guys should stop trying to offer solutions and just listen, and try to understand. And most of all, we should both stop lying to each other and playing games, because life is too short to keep confusing each other.