| Why Men Don't Listen & Women Can't Read Maps by Allan & Barbara Pease "Whether men and women are equal is a political or moral question, but whether they are identical is a scientific one." (page 7) "Women hear better than men and are excellent at distinguishing high-pitched sounds. A woman's brain is programmed to hear a baby cry in the night, whereas a father may be oblivious to it and sleep on. If there is a kitten crying in the distance, a woman will hear it. A man, however, with his superior spatial and directional skills, can tell her where it is." (page 29) "From birth, girls are dramatically more sensitive to touch and, as an adult, a woman's skin is at least ten times more sensitive to touch and pressure than a man's." (page 35) "Men score higher on discerning salty and bitter tastes which is why they drink beer, and women are far superior in discerning sweet and sugar tastes, which is why there are far more female chocoholics in the world than male." (page 37) "Women are simply better at picking up the small nuances in body language, vocal cues, tone of voice and other sensory stimuli. They can also read attitudes and emotions in animals." (page 39) "The female brain is slightly smaller than the male brain but studies show this to have no significance on a woman's brain performance." (page 47) "At the end of a day full of problems, a man's mono-tracking brain can file them all away. The female brain does not store information in this way - the problems just keep going around and around in her head." (page 80) "High voices are related to high oestrogen levels and their child-like quality appeals to most men's inbuilt urge to protect. Women prefer a deeper bass voice in a man as it is a powerful indicator of high testosterone levels, meaning greater virility." (page 102) "Girls' brains are wired to respond to people and faces but boys' brains respond to objects and their shapes." (page 140) "While men have side-by-side friendships based on things and achievement, women have face-to-face friendships based on emotional sharing. That's why women's arguments can be so hurtful - they know more personal details about each other and have more ammunition to hurl." (page 144) "Uptight men drink alcohol and invade another country. Uptight women eat chocolate and invade shopping centres. Under pressure, women talk without thinking and men act without thinking. That's why 90% of people in gaols are men and 90% of people who see therapists are women." (page 158) "Male sex drive is like a microwave - it ignites instantly and operates at full capacity within seconds, and can be turned off just as quickly when the meal is cooked. Women's sex drive is like an electric oven - it heats slowly to its top temperature and takes a lot longer to cool down." (pages 213-214) "A woman wants lots of sex with the man she loves. A man wants lots of sex." (page 223) "Men give their penis a name because they don't want a stranger making 99% of their decisions for them." (page 224) "Men are stimulated through their eyes, women through their ears." (page 229) "Unmarried or widowed men also have a higher premature death rate than married men." (pages 250-251) "More than 90% of affairs are initiated by men but more than 80% are ended by women." (page 257) "...while a woman's physical attractiveness rates highly in initial meetings for men, a warm nurturing partnership accounts for a significant part of her attractiveness in the long term..." (page 259) "They say it's great to be a man because you can walk topless on the beach in Tunisia without getting stoned to death, you don't have to remember where you left things, you can open your own jars and eat a banana in front of builders. It's great to be a woman because you can buy your own clothes, cross your legs without adjusting yourself and if you slap a man's face in public, everyone thinks you're in the right." (page 275) |