Mars vs. Venus Part I

Today on the TV show, The Doctors, they answered questions from audience participants on male/female stereotypes and comparisons. As a writer, those differences are forever part of one’s psyche. One cannot have an Alpha male responded as if he is a female. So, understanding some of the basics about male/female relationships is important.

Whereas men have excellent abstract orientation, women, for example, need landmarks to orient themselves. That is why women do not read maps well.
On the show today, they showed an experiment that proved that women can multi-task better than men. Men are more linear. They must stay with one task at a time – until it is completed.
Women seek acceptance, where men seek respect.
Men who lie do it to cover up something or to build up their ego. Women lie to make someone feel better.
Women in a committed relationship report that they reach fulfillment only 20% of the time, where men say they satisfy their partners completely 55% of the time.
When a group of women eat out, they will divvy up the bill by calculating who owes what. Men, in a similar situation, will compete for the “honor” of paying the entire bill. They will toss money on the table and pretend they would not like some change.
When listening to a person of authority will maintain a neutral face, while women will show up to six distinct expressions.
Women can speak and listen at the same time. Men are totally lost in this type of situation.
Women smile more (showing their teeth) than men do.
Women talk through their stress, while men close up and withdraw to deal with his stress.

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Regina Jeffers is the award-winning author of Austenesque, Regency and historical romantic suspense.
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3 Responses to Mars vs. Venus Part I

  1. suze's avatar suze says:

    interesting… Though I believe I can read a map better then mY husband and my dad.

    • Studies say that women cannot read a map because we need landmarks to orient ourselves, and I can see some of that to be true. “There’s the monument, so we need to go three blocks and turn left” sort of thing. However, I know I could read the map better than my ex-husband, who turned it around and around and never got it right. Yet, I will admit that he had a better sense of direction once I sent him the right way. I think he had a better sense of where was north and south, etc.

  2. suze's avatar suze says:

    You have a good point because though I could read the map I have no sense of direction.. Usually I need to drive to a new place 2 before I know how to get there..lol

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