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• Yes indeed. (Score:4, Funny)

  by pdcawley (485) on 2002.03.27 6:04 (#6384) Homepage Journal

  My favourite comment on the whole Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus is the almost kneejerk And Pop-psychologists are from Uranus

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• I thought that was... (Score:3, Funny)

  by pne (661) on 2002.03.27 6:20 (#6385) Homepage Journal

  ... Man are from Macs, Women are from VMS?

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  Esli epei eto cumprenan, shris soa Sfaha.
  Aettot ibrec epesecoth, spakhea scrifeteis.

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• it simply reinforces stereotypes (Score:2)

  by hfb (74)

  that are already there. Sometimes it is interesting to watch a group of children playing and how the adults interact with them when they ask the girls to pick-up the toys and the boys get to make more mess. I think people do this totally subconsciously and pass it to generation after generation.

  The book is merely the summation of a life long process of stereotype reinforcement. Don't get pissed at the book, we adults are pretty much a lost cause, get pissed at people who perpetuate it through their childr
• Mixed Feelings (Score:2)

  by chromatic (983)

  That's a terrible name for your next book [perl.org], at least from a descriptive standpoint.

  It might sell, though...
• Confession... I liked it. (Score:1)

  by dmarner (265)

  I am far from a fan of pop psychology books, but someone gave this book to us, so I read it on a slow book day. It had two pieces of advice that may not apply generally, but have certainly smoothed the communications in my (already pretty smooth) relationship:

  • Men tend to talk about problems in an attempt to find a solution; women often just want to talk about them. This leads to a disconnect in which the man keep proposing solutions, when the woman just wants a sympathetic ear.
  • "Cave time". When a man is c

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  • Re:Confession... I liked it. (Score:2)

    by gnat (29)

    Yup, I haven't read the Mars/Venus book but I knew the first point already. It's really helped me understand why my wife would come to me with a problem and leave even more frustrated and upset. She wanted to vent whereas I thought she wanted a solution. Now I listen and nod and "oh, that must be awful" and only try once to help her with a solution (just in case the cosmos is in alignment and she actually wants help for once :-)

    Deborah Tanner has a big line of pop psych books, but as far as I could tel