A review of Louann Brizendine's The Female Brain, in The Daily Male Mail. A few quotes:
Many men find post-menopausal spouses suddenly cool, selfish and impatient - like completely different people. Pharmaceutically, we do become completely different people.
As for menopause, here's what really depressed me: Between the ages of 42 and 52, 50pc of women lose interest in sex altogether. That's primarily because by 50, women lose up to 70pc of their testosterone, the driver of sexual desire for both genders.
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In the professional sphere, you often can't be both - perhaps that's why so few major companies have women at their helm. A woman's instinct to seek approval puts her at a disadvantage in a position of power. Women are driven to achieve consensus, and to keep social bonds intact at all costs. Thus, they always try to get their way through 'agreement', without telling people directly what to do.
Brizendine points out that women assert themselves in the form of questions, which made me laugh out loud. Since reading this passage, I've started to notice how I compulsively email my editor with constructions such as "Why don't we do that?", or "Might it be better if we didn't do X, but Y?" I constantly round off a potentially harsh demand with a timid, solicitous 'OK?'
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Men want to be respected. Women want to be liked.
Read the whole review here. Funny how, if you say outloud the things that everyone's Mom and Grandma knew, you could get fired as President of Harvard. I think this book runs up against Cultural Marxism. Our Dr. Bliss wrote on this subject a while back: Cowboys and Cowgirls
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