I think the author's gender essentialist views are naive, sexist and silly. I suspect he does not know a very large variety of women.
I did not experience my first menstruation or the 'loss of virginity' in the dramatic sense he suggests, and I know plenty of other women who feel the same. Similarly, for some men, puberty, first sex, and first fatherhood can be a huge change.
I have no idea whether there are biological factors involved in women being in general eager to look good. I do know, however, there are lots of social ones.
The identification of elegant and sexy is a modern one
No it isn't. He should read some classical and Renaissance descriptions of Helen of Troy.
never does a female conversation get sharper than when discussing the failures in taste of a common acquaintance.
Ugh. Just ... no.
Instead of looking at the wide variety in what people are like, he has reduced men and women to two sets of stereotypes and then made up some reasons for why they are like that.
Women are from earth, men are from earth. Deal with it!
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I did not experience my first menstruation or the 'loss of virginity' in the dramatic sense he suggests, and I know plenty of other women who feel the same. Similarly, for some men, puberty, first sex, and first fatherhood can be a huge change.
I have no idea whether there are biological factors involved in women being in general eager to look good. I do know, however, there are lots of social ones.
The identification of elegant and sexy is a modern one
No it isn't. He should read some classical and Renaissance descriptions of Helen of Troy.
never does a female conversation get sharper than when discussing the failures in taste of a common acquaintance.
Ugh. Just ... no.
Instead of looking at the wide variety in what people are like, he has reduced men and women to two sets of stereotypes and then made up some reasons for why they are like that.
Women are from earth, men are from earth. Deal with it!