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i feel like the stereotype about women being more "complicated" is really more about having attention to detail, which would apply to pictures as well as words.  it has also been said women have "an eye for beauty."  some of the pictures in A Game of You were just as complex as the words.  so even if women prefer more "complicated" things, that wouldn't mean they'd have to prefer words over pictures, would it? 

i think we may be assuming women prefer words because we're a class of women and many of the women in our class are majoring in the humanities (as opposed to being art students).  i could be completely wrong.  i've heard women are (statistically?) more verbal than men, but i also think might be rooted in gender roles: women are expected to be more articulate and share their emotions in more words.

 the idea that men are more visual has more to do with men being more sexually aroused by visuals than women are.  i'm not sure if it means men are more visual in general and would comprehend pictures better than women do.  could it?  every response to the google search "men more visual than women" has to do with sexual arousal.

now i am actually very curious about gender roles and how they might effect how we read words and pictures.