The Manual: A Girl Guide For Guys

Synopsis

I Have Been Referring To This Book All My Adult Life: Read The Manual, I'd Urge, After Some Bewildering Or Exasperating Encounter With A Man. I Searched High And Low For A User's Guide To Bestow To The Befuddled Male At Christmas Or On A Birthday, But Having Never Found What I Was Looking For I Decided To Write It Myself. My Relationships With Men Encompass The Usual Diversity - Father, Brother, Friends, Boyfriends, Two Husbands (sequentially, Not Concurrent) And A Son - All Good Men (well, No, Two Of Them Were Assholes), Intelligent And Well-intentioned, But All At One Time Or Another Uncomprehending, Delusional, Or Bizarrely Misinformed. As I Put Pen To Paper, And Began The Task Of Displaying And Interpreting All Those Female Peculiarities, I Marvelled At What Complex Creatures We Women Are. Men Seem Relatively Straightforward By Comparison (that Impression I Grant You, Could Arise From A Position Of Complete Ignorance, But As A Woman I'm Bound To Regard That Interpretation As Highly Unlikely). I Also Felt A Surge Of Sympathy As I Disentangled Femininity And Came To The Ineluctable Conclusion That Women Are Bonkers (but, We're Also Gorgeous And Wonderful And Will Immeasurably Enrich Your Lives).