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"Let's look at the thoughts, attitudes, and emotions, as they're experienced, in their very different ways, by men and women". This is one of Allan Pease's chirpy gear-changes in this provocatively titled book. Then he begins to ruminate: men and women live in the same world, but they experience it as if they came from two different worlds. Boys like things, girls like people. Every boy wants to be in a gang, and wants a gun; every girl has her best friend, with whom she shares her secrets. Men want status and power, women want love. It's amazing, he concludes, that they can ever live together. Well, yes, and that living together is a pretty fraught business, though he doesn't seem keen to go too deeply into that: this psychology, with its frequent allusions to research and its jokey little dramatisations, is upbeat feelgood stuff, which is why it's made him such a fortune on three continents. "Listen to this!" he'll say, then on comes an Aussie squabble, the woman berating a husband whose grunts proclaim the fact that he's not listening. But to sell four million copies of a book about body language--in 33 different languages--means Pease and his wife Barbara must be getting something right. There are many scientifically-documented facts about the difference between the sexes, and Pease is selling them with a smile to an ever-growing public. You may be a contented member of that public, or you may find your hackles rising. It takes all sorts! Betty Tadman
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The classic international bestselling book. Allan and Barbara Pease spotlight the differences in the way men and women think.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
If Sherlock Holmes had read this book...,
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This review is from: Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps (Paperback)
I think that if Sherlock Holmes had read this book, he'd have said. "It's obvious that we have here a couple where the wife can't drive or park a car, but on the other hand her husband is not aware that she's been sleeping with the plumber for the last few years. Elementary, Watson."At least when I read the part when this poor guy goes on and on about women's weak sex drive, I though, yeah right, maybe if she tells you every night that she has a headache the problem isn't female sex drive, it's you. On the other hand, I gave the book three stars because it's fun light reading, nothing more serious than a book-long Cosmopolitan article, and the cartoons are funny.
70 of 77 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Essential reading for men, women and children!!!,
This review is from: Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps (Paperback)
Forget Men are from Mars - this is what you really want to / need to know. It will not only help you understand your own and your partner's behaviour, but will give you endless hours of conversation and debate next time you're in the pub! It's not one of those boring, dull relationship books, and does not set out to prove one sex is better than the other - merely that both sexes are different, despite modern society and political correctness trying to suggest that we are more similar than we really are. In fact, according to the book, it will take evolution a million years to catch up with moden society!Having endured a few jibes from my male friends for reading a 'bird's book', they have now seen their girlfriends reading it after my recommendation and are now reading the book themselves! I must have sold dozens of copies of this book just by talking about it with people! It's easy to read, addictive and humourous. I guarantee that you won't have another conversation with a member of the opposite sex without thinking about this book! Buy it and read it NOW!!!
57 of 64 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Misleading mix of fact and fiction,
By Bexze (Kobe, Japan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps (Paperback)
An entertaining book, fine for a bathroom or train read. As mentioned by some reviewers already, this is a mixture of scientific studies on brain differences between men and women and the author's freely interspersed anecdotes, opinions and observations. A critical reader should be able to discern which is which.
I found a number of outright errors in the book. For example, "There are many more left-handed women." In fact, about 10% more men than women are left-handed. I also found innumerable sweeping statements like the following. - "Until recently, women tended to be pregnant most of the time." - "80% of all human societies have been [promiscuous] for most of human existence." - "Until the introduction of the contraceptive pill in the 1950s, no-one noticed that women had emotional highs and lows." - "Throughout human history, wars greatly diminished the numbers of men...so creating a harem for the returning males was an effective survival strategy" - "Girls were a disappointment because the tribe invariably had an excess of females. This is the way it was for hundreds of thousands of years." Unsubstantiated, unsubstantiatable, or just plain wrong. I mean, do we know how homo erectus greeted the birth of a girl? War may have diminished the numbers of men during specific time periods, but I think one could certainly make a case that childbearing had a much greater effect on female life expectancy than war did on male life expectancy. I haven't seen any anthropological references to modern hunter-gatherer groups with harems. What is "promiscuous"? Where are these societies? Who counted them? I also found objectionable the running thread of "man the hunter" and the faulty logic that connected all male behaviour to this one supposed fact. Why, for example, do men need distance vision to hunt, but not peripheral vision to watch for predators? Men just want to have a "few pelvic thrusts" because they must always be on guard against attack. Primates living in the wild seem to have time for courting behaviour, even with watching for predators. And, wouldn't the women have to be on guard as well in this relentlessly hostile environment? Why aren't a few pelvic thrusts enough to satisfy them? While it was sometimes amusing, and the brain research material was interesting, I found this book more irritating than enlightening.
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