Oh those kind of books annoy me so much! I read an article recently where a psychologist joked she was thinking about bringing out a book called "Why men eat turnips and women can't wink." just to see how many people fell for it. I think re-inforcing these supposed distinct and easily defined differences between the sexes does more harm than good. It's always a bad idea to have a mindset of "You think like that because you're female" or "You behave like that because you're male." People are people- there is a far greater difference in between one woman and the next woman, than there is between women and men as a group. Ultimately this is lazy thinking- it's so much easier to use someone's gender to try and interpret their behaviour than to really try and understand them as a unique individual who doesn't necessarily conform to any set of rules. I have a dislike for pop-psychology in general to be honest. I think any theory which aims to simplify something as complex as human relationships using convenient little labels is ultimately doomed to failure- we have a generation of people fluent in psycho-babble but who still fail hopelessly at real-life relationships because it's just not that simple! And by living by these restrictive rules you actually lessen your understanding of others, rather than improve it. I know I'd be really p'd off if some guy started using some kind of rule book to try and make his relationship with me work out (Oh I forgot! Guys don't do that do they...) Whenever I feel like getting wound up and have a look at one of those books I tend to think - "Yes, I know a few women who are like that. But I also know quite a few men who are like that too. And I'm definetly not like that!" The fact is men are from earth and women are from earth. If people could learn to deal with that simple fact they'd probably be a lot more psychologically healthy.