The Bluffer's Guide® to Men and Women

by Anthony Mason and Marian Muratore

• ISBN13: 9781903096307
• ISBN10: 1903096308
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Oval Books

Summary

Be an instant expert on men & women and bluff your way with anyone who thinks he or she knows all about the genders. No studying required, just a sense of humour. From 'Fundamental Differences' to 'Foibles and Feelings', The Bluffer's Guide to Men & Women contains everything you need to know to endear yourself to the opposite sex. Book jacket.

Author Biography

A husband and wife team, Anthony Mason and Marian Muratore closely collaborated on The Bluffer's Guide to Men and Women. Never before had they looked at men and women so thoroughly and so candidly - at least in each other's company. For him this process served to increase the fascinating mystery and mystique of women. For her, men became even more comprehensible, not to say transparent. As it happens, these were approximately the same relative positions that they started with.

Table of Contents

The Key to Understanding What Men Are About	p. 7
Fundamental Differences	p. 8
Brawn	p. 9
Brain	p. 11
Blame Testosterone	p. 12
Growing Up	p. 14
Boys Will Be Boys	p. 14
Teenage Man	p. 15
Middle-Age Man	p. 16
Dirty Old Man	p. 16
Sex	p. 17
Feelings	p. 27
Approval	p. 27
Independence	p. 28
Pride	p. 29
Stubbornness	p. 30
Socialising Skills	p. 30
Conversation	p. 31
Opinions	p. 32
Buddies	p. 33
Chauvinism	p. 34
Commitment	p. 34
Attitudes	p. 36
to Women	p. 36
to Beauty	p. 37
to Love	p. 38
to Fatherhood	p. 39
to Feminism	p. 39
Foibles	p. 41
Wolf-whistling	p. 41
Spitting	p. 41
Flies	p. 41
Leaving the Seat Up	p. 42
Sulking	p. 42
Jokes	p. 43
Hobbies	p. 44
Sheds	p. 44
Tinkering with Cars	p. 45
Practicalities	p. 45
Men at Work	p. 45
Working with Women	p. 47
Domesticity	p. 49
Shopping	p. 50
Dress Sense	p. 51
Shaving	p. 52
Sport	p. 53
Touchy Subjects	p. 54
Giving up Seats	p. 54
Seeking Advice	p. 55
Height	p. 55
Being Single	p. 56
That Time of the Month	p. 57
Castration	p. 57
Circumcision	p. 57
Shape	p. 58
Snoring	p. 58
Hypochondria	p. 59
Grey Hair	p. 60
No Hair	p. 60
Things Men Should Tell Other Men About Women	p. 62
Glossary	p. 63
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Excerpts

A man knows he is in love when he finds himself thinking not just about sex every six seconds, but about sex every six seconds with the same woman.

One of the key points about understanding women is the realization 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.

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