Reading, a woman thing?

[Zalandris]

Interesting article from NPR about women reading a whole ton more then men.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14175229

[Ottawa Rob]

What I deduce from this article as a male is that book stores are likely great places to pick up girls.

[Zalandris]

Yep, just head to the Jane Austen section. lol

[captain button]

What I deduce from this article as a male is that book stores are likely great places to pick up girls.

I've met some really fabulous women in bookstores. Being sensible people, they want nothing to do with me.

[Kate Baker]

I read this post this morning, and for all you relationship noobs out there, I've comprised a How-To post on picking up women in a bookstore. Frankly, the last place I'd look if I were a man was in the Jane Austen section. That's just asking for trouble! :)

From my blog:

1.) Unless you can keep up with romantic notions of old, including ever popular sword duels for your lady’s affection (which happen to be illegal now), and public shunning should you do anything more than kiss your woman on the hand before you are married, avoid the Jane Austen section like the plague.

I don’t care if the woman holding Emma or Sense & Sensibility is your physical ideal of a 5′10 brown haired librarian temptress, should you engage in a serious relationship, you will be riding horseback through a field of wildflowers and getting lost in the rain only to be told later that your love interest has married another suitor who was more well endowed with fortune and status, from a drunken friend at a pub.

[oldsma]

I was perturbed by the BBC's online "what sex is your brain?" test. I got "sorta ambiguous" when I took the test straight on, but "solidly male" when I deliberately gave only 4 words for each question in the vocabulary test. (E.g. "list things that are grey".)

I guess if the poor typical male brain overheats when pressed to produce a list longer than "sidewalk, elephant, sky, mouse", then reading would be a painful chore.

Gah. I don't even know how to simulate "normal" in that world.

Oh, hang on, some of you will want the link to that test... http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/add_user.shtml

[Domini]

That's an interesting test; I shade towards the male spectrum, despite being female.

[Peter Hodges]

This seems to be true in my own limited experience.

Of my close male friends, most of them avoid reading like the plague. Of my close female friends, relatives, and my wife, I find that they all read, most of them voraciously.

Does this mean that I'm a woman?

If so, I'm planting my flag on the Lebsian Love Planet right now.

[scalzi]

Nearly all of my friends read, regardless of their gender. But given what I do and who I am, this is not terribly surprising.

[Valsira]

Heh. Apparantly I'm just as much of a man as a man is. I totally owned in the 3D shapes.

I only have one male friend that reads. But then, I only have two female friends that read. Man, my friends suck.