I've had a couple of people ask me if I've read "Men Are from Mars Women Are from Venus". Today I went out and bought the book. Has anyone else read this book and if so what did you think about it?
Is an old book that came in the 80's I think. A few lives ago I read it. Nothing about the buzz I remember.
I remember the book from a long time ago. I don't remember reading it. I was probably way too busy doing my own hands on research on the subject. I think that it has been scientifically proven that men's and women's brains process information differently and also certain chemical releases are different between genders. Of course knowing that differences exist and being able to successfully deal with the differences are two different things
Is largely been proven to be full of crap.
Yes there are some obvious biologically specific traits to the sexes, but really most of the neurological differences between male and female brains are plastic, fall on a spectrum with a lot of overlap, and can be changed by experience behaviour and hormones.
As I recall the book mainly offers up a lot of retrograde comforting platitudes to traditional gender roles. It's mostly valuable as kindling.
It was a good exploration of the different outlooks that men and women have in a relationship. While not groundbreaking science or anything, it did help to explain the archetypes of the opposite gender to the reader. I would take it notionally, not factually.