"Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" by John Gray

The other book I think of when I think of this one is "The Rules" - you know, the one where if you're female you should basically play all kinds of weird mind games to catch a man. Blech!

I gave my husband A Lovers Discourse when I first met him. Oh the roffles that ensued.

The relationship guru who constantly promotes himself as “Dr. John Gray” and lists a “Ph.D.” has only one accredited degree, a high school diploma.

Previously CultNews.com reported that Gray’s doctorate is “worthless.” According to California’s attorney general a “diploma mill” that was later shut down issued it.

CultNews kept checking further and can now report that both of John Gray’s other purported degrees are also unaccredited and essentially worthless too.

Neither his BA nor his MA is from an accredited institution of higher education.

Gray received his undergraduate degrees from Maharishi European Research University in Seelisberg, Switzerland before returning to the United States in 1982, according to his posted bio at Brooks International.

It seems that well-known relationship gurus "Dr." John Gray and "Dr." Barbara De Angelis have bogus credentials reports Men News Daily.

Apparently the two both obtained their touted "doctorates" from a "diploma mill" shut down two years ago by the California state attorney general's office.

Gray and De Angelis received doctorates from Columbia Pacific University, which California officials described as a "diploma mill" that issued "totally worthless degrees."

I'm guessing there's no point reading it if you are the sort of person who refuses to understand that generalisations and stereotypes are effective devices for describing and explaining things (and most ilx-ers seem to suffer from this disability), but if you are a bit more open minded then I reckon it's probably well worth a looky-see.

HAAAAAAAAAAAA!
he pushes the idea that something in (or lacking in) female's brains makes them crap at doing maths and interpreting maps/ navigating, iirc.
And he takes this to the conclusion that women should not partake in such things (should be housewives, pretty much).

This book was made all the more disturbing to me because when I had just "come out" (as lesbo) to my parents (shouldn't have bothered, but anyway) and was staying with them at aunty's place for xmas my aunty was getting my mum to read it and going on about how great it was. (It also says that gays have the brain of the other sex. I think!?)

However, I did have a friend in college who always joked that men could navigate with their penises (this was her explanation for the generalization that men will never stop and ask for directions). If lost, she would literally lean over to whatever male was in the care and command, "Use your penis, man!"

that's me, kinda, except i love interpreting maps. i don't have a very good sense of direction though. i can see the big picture but i can't do that turn-by-turn thing and always forget whether to go left or right.

We could all open up the paper tomorrow and have our horoscope sound right, but that doesn't make astrology a valuable tool for self-awareness.