With Valentine’s Day in the air and personal relationships under the microscope, it’s appropriate to note (as my Bajan columnist friend Vic Fernandes did recently) that if you see no difference between the male and the female brain, either you haven’t spent much time around women or you haven’t been paying attention. That best-selling book Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, from some years back, had it right – seemingly a matched pair, men and women are wired differently in many respects and to live together is to learn the difference.
A couple attends a social function. On the day following, the husband comments on the raunchy behaviour of one of the female guests who had had too much to drink, but he doesn’t know the woman’s name. His wife says, “What colour dress was she wearing?” The husband stares in disbelief; he isn’t even sure about the colour of the tie he wore, never mind the colour of one dress among 30, but the woman knows them all in specific detail (avocado green, Chinese red, sleeveless, etc) including the colour of matching shoes and even the height of the heels – Mars and Venus. That attention to the sartorial differs widely between the sexes. Photos from a wedding reception will show a bunch of guys in attendance, having a drink, every man jack in a formal dark suit with matching tie; a woman will go berserk if she comes to the wedding reception to find that she and another guest are wearing anything remotely similar. On those occasions, women have been known to immediately leave the party frowning, husband in tow, to return later, smiling with
