Anne Moir

Why Men Don’t Iron: The New Reality of Gender Differences


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       Why Men Don’t Iron

      The New Reality of

      Gender Differences

      ANNE AND BILL MOIR

       Copyright

      William Collins

      An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1998

      Copyright © Anne and Bill Moir

      The Authors assert the moral right to be identified as the authors of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780002570350

      Ebook Edition © FREBRUARY 2016 ISBN: 9780007468911 Version: 2015-12-17

       To Bernard Cornwell

       Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       The bisexual fallacy

       Perhaps he’s a rabbit

       Where’s the beef?

       CHAPTER FOUR: Brainsex I

       Bottom of the class

       CHAPTER FIVE: Brainsex II

       The malady of boyhood

       CHAPTER SIX: Brainsex III

       The neurological edge

       CHAPTER SEVEN: Extremes Are Not Rules

       Top and tail at work

       CHAPTER EIGHT: Painting Him Green

       He resists her dream

       CHAPTER NINE: Sex

       His drive and her drive

       CHAPTER TEN: The Real New Man

       Home truths

       References

       Index

       Acknowledgements

       About the Publisher

       Introduction

      This is a book about men.

      About what makes them different. So inevitably it is a book about women too.

      A small box sits on Anne’s desk. The top reads: ‘All that men know about women’. Open it and there is nothing inside. Funny? Sad? Humbling? An innocent admission that men have tried to follow women’s pattern of thought and failed? Or is it an insult? The box could imply that a man is incapable of understanding a woman because her complexities are beyond his simplicities. That is to define him in her terms. Or perhaps it reflects the traditional male view that she is beyond understanding because she is silly – irrational? Which is to define her in relation to himself. We tend to see in the other sex a lesser version of our own. Yet the manner in which we describe another’s mind shows the limits of our own.

      ‘Why keep the box?’ asks Bill.

      ‘To turn it over,’ says Anne. ‘To puzzle out what it means.’

      ‘Isn’t it insulting?’

      ‘Didn’t you say that we often hide behind clichés?’

      ‘Did I?’

      ‘When you gave me the box.’

      It is a cliché that men cannot fathom women. But what of her image of him?

      Roseanne Barr, the weighty sitcom actress, summed up her view on men in the television programme Hollywood Men: Boys Will Be Boys: ‘The real Hollywood man,’ she said, ‘is a terrified little boy and wants his mommy.’1 Hers is the classic female caricature