The Bluffer's Guide to Women
By Marina Muratore
 
Extracts from the book

 
Juggling
One of the key points about understanding women is the realisation that it isn't just that women can juggle several tasks at once - they are actually congenitally incapable of thinking of fewer than three things at a time.
 
Brain size
Women's brains are on average smaller than men's by about 5 ounces - the weight of a small hamburger, without the bun.
 
Intelligence
It is a sad truth that while men can stomach sparkles of intelligence from a woman, they find too much intellect indigestible. Intelligent women are a threat... It was a man who ruefully admitted: 'Women are more intelligent than men. They have to be, to convince us so often that the opposite is true'.
 
Intimacy
Women need to feel a degree of sexual intimacy before sex becomes desirable. For women intimacy sometimes results in sex. For men, sex sometimes results in intimacy.
 
Befuddled
Many men profess to be completely baffled by the way women can leap from speculation to certainty without due process of deduction between the two. Women are largely indulgent of this male bafflement, partly because it's no more than they expect, and partly because it gives them the upper hand.
 
Reviews

 
Great book of little truths that will make you laugh!!! Miriam seems to have noticed and put into words what many of us probably know already ... yet do not readily recognise.
   The end result is that this book gives me a different perspective on how to view the opposite sex, and in turn, gives me an insight of how I, myself, might be viewed!!
   Once again, the Bluffer's Guides have turned up trumps ..... with a smile!!
A reader from Munich, Germany
 
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Table of Contents
 

The Key to Understanding Women

Essential Differences
Body Design
The XX Factor
Blame Oestrogen
The Brain

Guiles and Guises
Poor Little Me
Bimbo
Doormat
Earth Mother
Ballbreaker
Normal

Sex

Feelings
Guilt
Saying Sorry
Motherhood
Friendship
A Good Cry

Attitudes
to Men
to Relationships
to Other Women
to Daughters
to Marriage

Practicalities
Coping
Women at Work
Housework
Map-Reading
Punctuality

Foibles
Intuition
Going to the Lavatory in Pairs
Gossip
Revenge
Nagging
Cattiness
Shopping
Appearance
Pretty Woman
Dieting
Feminine Wiles

Sensitive Subjects
Intelligence
A Rose by Any Other Name
Feminism
Women Drivers
Being Single
PMT/PMS
Menopause
Vulnerability
Ageing

Things Women Do That Annoy Men

Men's Aphorisms About Women

Glossary

 
Author: Marina Muratore
Format: 64 pages, pb
Published: 1/10/2006
NEW EDITION
Price: £4.99
ISBN-10 & ISBN-13:
1-903096-94-4
978-1-903096-94-9
  
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