Anyway, not that you asked, but since it's sort of on the topic, one of MY favorite books is: 
Funny account of what Jesus was doing all those years between the temple discussion in his teen years and when he caught up with the disciple-type dudes.
Posted on 06/14/2006 2:36:58 AM PDT by neverdem
There are three gender-segregated sections in any airport: the restrooms, the security pat-down area and the bookstore. In the men’s sections of the bookstore, there are books describing masterly men conquering evil. In the women’s sections there are novels about — well, I guess feelings and stuff.
The same separation occurs in the home. Researchers in Britain asked 400 accomplished women and 500 accomplished men to name their favorite novels. The men preferred novels written by men, often revolving around loneliness and alienation. Camus’ The Stranger, Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five topped the male list.
The women leaned toward books written by women. The women’s books described relationships and are a lot better than the books the men chose. The top six women’s books were Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Handmaid’s Tale, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice and Beloved.
There are a couple of reasons why the two lists might diverge so starkly. It could be men are insensitive dolts who don’t appreciate subtle human connections and good literature. Or, it could be that the part of the brain where men experience negative emotion, the amygdala, is not well connected to the part of the brain where verbal processing happens, whereas the part of the brain where women experience negative emotion, the cerebral cortex, is well connected. It could be that women are better at processing emotion through words.
Over the past two decades, there has been a steady accumulation of evidence that male and female brains work differently. Women use both sides of their brain more symmetrically than men. Men and women hear and smell differently (women are much more sensitive). Boys and girls process colors differently (young girls enjoy an array of red, green and orange crayons whereas young boys generally stick to black, gray and...)
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Anyway, not that you asked, but since it's sort of on the topic, one of MY favorite books is:
Funny account of what Jesus was doing all those years between the temple discussion in his teen years and when he caught up with the disciple-type dudes.
REPUDIATION is an act of rejection. It tells about the actor who rejects a truth and not about the truth value of that which is repudiated.
It has been true for three decades that the boys are dis-served in most schools unless they are fortunate to not be subjected to contemporary teaching fads. The average teacher now embodies terrible prejudices against males--all the result of the 60s and 70s feminists who were determined to "change the world". Their immature hatred of the father [and their brothers and indeed their sons] have been writ large on current educational orthodoxy.
That orthodoxy gets transmitted to many decent teachers with no inherent axe to grind. Correction now would require enormous work.
Wow, I'm glad I don't hang around with "accomplished" men or "accomplished" women! Redneck trash like my husband and me prefer history books.
(Bibliopath ping?)
No, gender is a grammatical formality. Sex (male and female) is a physical reality.
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"During the 1970s, it was believed that gender is a social construct and that gender differences could be eliminated via consciousness-raising. But it turns out gender is not a social construct. Consciousness-raising doesn’t turn boys into sensitively poetic pacifists. It just turns many of them into high school and college dropouts who hate reading."
The article recommends Hemingway for men. Actually, I always found Hemingway pretentious and boring.
Instead of Hemingway, give them Kipling.
If they want a book by a real poet, have the advanced students read "Light on a Dark Horse," if they can find a copy.
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As posted above, the very term "gender"is being used as promulgated by feminists. Gender was (before 1970s) a linguistic term. It was not strictly tied to sex. For example, the German world for girl is neuter in gender. German word for dog is masculine, nad for cat is feminine, although both animals come in male and female individuals. Thus gender was a linguistic term.
The feminists really didn't like the word sex. (I suspect that some did not like the activity, either.) They decreed that people should be designated by gender, in order to imply that it is all just a "social construct." They succeeded -- temporarily. However, reality will always intrude. I have heard people referring to gender in usage which would formerly require the world sex, as in "A stallion is a horse of male gender."
One of these days I expect to hear of people engaged in "having gender."
I don't like Hemingway, either. Kipling is great. Louis L'Amour has good stories, too.
One of these days I expect to hear of people engaged in "having gender."
LOL. Yeah, I bet people can be that stupid! It is so funny because you are right. It is only possible, I guess, with those produced by currentt schools. It all start with the false notion of "sex role". "role" is a construct and that's why they chose that term. It was insidious over decades. Hemingway was useful to them because he was a romantic cartoon.... and not someone to be admired. Notice I did not say the equally insidious "role model". This movement is actually wide spread and broadly based in a certain force.
I'm a woman, and I loved Catcher in the Rye, and while I didn't read Slaughterhouse Five, I did read Vonnegut's Mother Night, another favorite of mine. Then again, The Handmaid's Tale and Pride and Prejudice were favorites of mine, too.
You jus' keep puttin' 2 and 2 together there, Einstein.
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