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Men Agree More About What Is Attractive In Women
by eNotAlone.com
There is much more agreement among men about what is attractive in opposite sex, than there is among women, whose definition of what makes a man attractive is less well-defined, a new U.S. study has found.

Women More Than Men Reject Babies With Birth Defects
by eNotAlone.com
Psychiatrists at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital have found that women have a harder time than men looking at babies with facial birth defects and are more likely than men to reject unattractive-looking babies. Researchers, who were studying perception

More Men Work Overtime Due To Job Pressure
by eNotAlone.com
A new Dutch study has found that many men these days are pressured to work up to 40 hours - often unpaid - per week in order to stay competitive in today's environment. The latest research has revealed that women face the same pressures as men

Tweeter Users Do Not Like To 'Tweet'
by eNotAlone.com
According to the results of the first extensive sociological studies on Twitter, conducted by Harvard Business School, more than 90 per cent of the content on Twitter is generated just by 10 per cent of the prolific users of the frenetically popular

Men Respond Better To Ads And Spend More Time Online
by eNotAlone.com
According to the new data by market research firm eMarketer, men spend more time browsing the Web than women; they also use social networks more often and more positively react to advertisements.

Men Can Guess A Woman's Age Even When Drunk
by eNotAlone.com
Drunk men find the opposite sex less attractive and have no problem when it comes to guessing a woman's age, according to a new study by British researchers. This means that drunkenness should not be considered an excuse for a man mistaking an underage

Women Can Detect Body Odor More Effectively Than Men
by eNotAlone.com
There is no chance that you could fool a woman when it comes to smelling the body odor. The U.S. scientists found that it is women, and not men, who are more sensitive among two genders, to perceive biologically relevant information from body sweat.

Women Handle Stressful Life Events Better Than Men
by eNotAlone.com
The experts at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem indicate that women can handle stressful situations much better than men. According to a new scientific study, individuals have different reactions to strain, mostly due to their genetic differences.

Men With Sense Of Humor Attract More Attention Than Not-So-Funny
by eNotAlone.com
Did you know that women prefer men who can make them laugh to those who are not so funny? Well, according to a new report, they really do, and what is even more - women perceive men with good sense of humor as more intelligent and more suitable for a long

Gratitude Expressed Differently By Men And Women
by eNotAlone.com
Gratitude, thankfulness, or appreciation is a positive emotion or attitude when individuals acknowledge a benefit of receiving help, depending on their interpretation of the situation.

Guys Prefer Non-Drinking Ladies
by eNotAlone.com
Very often young ladies in college may be drinking in excess to impress or charm the counterparts of the opposite sex. However, the new study suggests that college guys actually are not quite impressed when women become their drinking buddies.

Men Suffer More From Recession Than Women
by eNotAlone.com
Job insecurity makes men more depressed, stressed and anxious than women in the same situation, according to new findings by academics at the University of Cambridge. The scientists said that the fear of losing a job, and in other words, the status

Beauty Perceptions Differ In Men And Women
by eNotAlone.com
Beauty is viewed differently by men and women, suggests a new study, which found that women use the whole brain to process and absorb exquisiteness, while man use only the right hemisphere of their brain.

Part 1
Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It
by Allan Pease, Barbara Pease
Have you ever wished your partner came with an instruction booklet? This international bestseller is the answer to all the things you've ever wondered about the opposite sex. For their controversial new book on the differences between the way men

Gender Health Risks
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Health risks are different for men and women, and treatments may be, too. When it comes to health risks, sex does matter. Women are twice as likely as men to get multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and migraines.

The Not-So-Happy Ending
The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches from an Almost Hip Life
by Peter Hyman
Welcome to the almost hip life of a reluctant metrosexual-a straight man whose tastes are just gay enough. Equal parts cultural anthropologist, amateur sexologist and witty skeptic, Hyman wryly chronicles the promiscuity and perils of modern manhood

Torch Song
The Friend Who Got Away : Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away
by Jenny Offill, Elissa Schappell
Losing a friend can be as painful and as agonizing as a divorce or the end of a love affair, yet it is rarely written about or even discussed. The Friend Who Got Away is the first book to address this near-universal experience, bringing together the brave

Reader's Guide
Journey from the Land of No : A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
by Roya Hakakian
1. Roya refers to her brother Albert's departure for America as 'the first mystery of my life.' How does she go about sleuthing out his reasons for leaving? What political realities does she glean from the coded images in Tofigh magazine?

New York City, July 13, 1999
Journey from the Land of No : A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
by Roya Hakakian
In Journey from the Land of No Roya Hakakian recalls her childhood and adolescence in prerevolutionary Iran with candor and verve. The result is a beautifully written coming-of-age story about one deeply intelligent and perceptive girl's attempt to find

Chapter One
God of the Rodeo : The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana's Angola Prison
by Daniel Bergner
When he had finished work-building fence or penning cattle or castrating bull calves with a knife supplied by his boss on the prison farm-Johnny Brooks lingered in the saddle shed. The small cinder-block building is near the heart of Angola, Louisiana's

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Advice & Discussions
Exactly how sex-driven is the male gender?
Well, as some of you know, most of my friends at my summer program are guys. All right, more like all of them are guys. And by hanging around them, I've probably found out more about the male gender (and what they like to talk about) then I could ever want to know.
Which gender stereotypes do you hate the most?
Hey, fellow eNoters...well, I just saw an ad for a book title that had BOTH my least favorite stereotypes in them. The book is Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes: The Ultimate Guide to the Opposite Sex I resent the implication that women are shoe-shopping bubbleheads, and that men are dense lunkheads! Down with gender stereotypes! All they do is fuel the fire of the endless (and completely pointless) "Battle of the Sexes," and make money for charlatan so-called "experts" who make a buck off perpetuating 'em.
Gender roles: any useful purpose to them?
Hi, folks...this is "Part 3" of my recent threads trying to help us guys and gals better understand our similarities, and overcome limiting stereotypes. In one of my last threads, the topic of "Gender Roles" came up. One poster felt that certain behaviors and tasks are just naturally "male" things to do.
Gender Bashing
There have been a number of threads recently which are basically just people bashing the other gender - 'women do this' and 'men do that'. In an attempt to stop this a thread was revived about 'Generalities and Stereotypes' and was made a sticky for a few days on the main page - but it has not seemed to have the desired effect.
FEMALE GENDER: A tough question fo ya...
OK, this question is about breaking up... That is, it's about the best way to do it. Now, before I'm branded as a scoundrel, here me out. I'm at home right now, on break from school. I go back to school in a week or so and I need to break up with a girl there.

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