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# Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It

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Review: A MUST READ, great insightful gift. - This book is a MUST READ for anyone who maybe interested in learning about the thought and motor processes between genders. I have gifted this book to over 20+ friends and family.
Review: Men and women have radically different brains. - This book appeared after Anne Moir's Brain Sex and more or less parallels it as far as what it has to say about the brain. But the message delivered with less technical jargon. Not that Moir was overly or highly technical but the Pease couple manage to be even more informal. Simon Baron-Cohen (The Essential Difference) has done much research into how sex differences are formed and affect behavior. I definitely recommend these books to anyone who wants real answers on sexual differences. As all the foregoing authors reiterate, such knowledge is essential for the sexes to get along in times when the world is trying to tear them apart or turn them into bots. America and Europe continue to promote this insidiously attractive but egregiously spurious "blank slate" idea probably because it serves the interests of the military-industrial complex to think of people as plastic widgets to be molded willy-nilly to serve their interests Just think of the ads that bombard your brain with promises of molding you into this or that fashionable (i.e., sale-able) image. Sociologist, of course, have long found it helpful as they tend to see man as Shakespeare described him, as an actor on a world stage mouthing lines of roles from a tale told by an idiot. As a tribute to them, psychologist Steven Pinker (The Blank Slate) refers to the "blank slate" -- which comes from 16th century British philosopher John Locke's assumption that the mind at birth is a "tabla rasa" (blank slate) that must be filled in by experience -- as the standard sociological model, and points out how dictators drool over the idea of programming people to serve their ends. But it is also the fundamental premise of America's political philosophy, encapsulated in the Declaration of Independence as the "self evident truth" that "all men are created equal." In fact, it is neither self-evident nor true, and therefore must be forced, making equality inversely related freedom. The instant book under review doesn't give this background, but Brain Sex (Moir & Jessell) and Why Men Don't Iron (Moir and Moir) do provide a bigger picture. In my estimate, Moir and Jessel's seminal BBC docu and book Brain Sex added immeasurably to the scientific discussion of the time by explaining not just how the "fascinating and unalterable differences between men and women" are formed in the womb, and the behavioral implications of those differences. The Pease book expands on Moir.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #138,289 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #659 in Love & Romance (Books) #764 in Marriage #3,193 in Personal Transformation Self-Help |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (528) |
| Dimensions  | 5.2 x 0.73 x 7.92 inches |
| Edition  | 1st |
| ISBN-10  | 0767907639 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0767907637 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 272 pages |
| Publication date  | June 19, 2001 |
| Publisher  | Harmony |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A MUST READ, great insightful gift.
*by S***E on August 21, 2025*

This book is a MUST READ for anyone who maybe interested in learning about the thought and motor processes between genders. I have gifted this book to over 20+ friends and family.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Men and women have radically different brains.
*by W***S on March 4, 2019*

This book appeared after Anne Moir's Brain Sex and more or less parallels it as far as what it has to say about the brain. But the message delivered with less technical jargon. Not that Moir was overly or highly technical but the Pease couple manage to be even more informal. Simon Baron-Cohen (The Essential Difference) has done much research into how sex differences are formed and affect behavior. I definitely recommend these books to anyone who wants real answers on sexual differences. As all the foregoing authors reiterate, such knowledge is essential for the sexes to get along in times when the world is trying to tear them apart or turn them into bots. America and Europe continue to promote this insidiously attractive but egregiously spurious "blank slate" idea probably because it serves the interests of the military-industrial complex to think of people as plastic widgets to be molded willy-nilly to serve their interests Just think of the ads that bombard your brain with promises of molding you into this or that fashionable (i.e., sale-able) image. Sociologist, of course, have long found it helpful as they tend to see man as Shakespeare described him, as an actor on a world stage mouthing lines of roles from a tale told by an idiot. As a tribute to them, psychologist Steven Pinker (The Blank Slate) refers to the "blank slate" -- which comes from 16th century British philosopher John Locke's assumption that the mind at birth is a "tabla rasa" (blank slate) that must be filled in by experience -- as the standard sociological model, and points out how dictators drool over the idea of programming people to serve their ends. But it is also the fundamental premise of America's political philosophy, encapsulated in the Declaration of Independence as the "self evident truth" that "all men are created equal." In fact, it is neither self-evident nor true, and therefore must be forced, making equality inversely related freedom. The instant book under review doesn't give this background, but Brain Sex (Moir & Jessell) and Why Men Don't Iron (Moir and Moir) do provide a bigger picture. In my estimate, Moir and Jessel's seminal BBC docu and book Brain Sex added immeasurably to the scientific discussion of the time by explaining not just how the "fascinating and unalterable differences between men and women" are formed in the womb, and the behavioral implications of those differences. The Pease book expands on Moir.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book surely very bias to women
*by F***I on January 2, 2012*

This book surely very bias to women but still a good book to read since it does have many scientific facts put down as laymen terms. It is a book stay between a opinionate and scientific. I haven't finish the whole book yet but so far I haven't seen a single joke to play down women but many to men. I just come across a fact that Albert Einstein is more likely right-handed [...] but this book said he is left-handed. That does not mean this book is no good but one should not take this book word by word.

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