It’s true that secular psychology begins with unbiblical assumptions about what human beings are and what they are for. There is also a helpful section on “How to Listen Without Getting Angry”, and I suppose quite a few of us would benefit from reading it.Ĭhristians sometimes get the idea that it is unbiblical to study psychology. Well, what about it, women? Sound familiar? Or try this one: “Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished”. Try this one: “A man tries to change a woman’s feelings when she is upset by… offering solutions to her problems that invalidate her feelings”. Gray also has some good things to say about the problems men and women have when they try to communicate. Gender is a fact rather than a fiction.ĭr. Gray is saying in Mars and Venus is just the opposite, that that there are fundamental and inescapable differences between men and women. A professor at Hunter College in New York recently began a class with these words: “My working assumption in this course is that gender is already imaginary in the first place, meaning that it’s a construction–a fiction that we all live and work with in our daily lives.” What Dr. We don’t often hear people say that men and women are different any more. Then they decided to fly to Earth… the effects of Earth’s atmosphere took hold, and one morning everyone woke up with… selective amnesia!īoth the Martians and Venusians forgot that they were from different planets and were supposed to be different.
The Venusians welcomed the Martians with open arms… Their hearts opened wide to a love they had never felt before… One day long ago the Martians, looking through their telescopes, discovered the Venusians… They fell in love and quickly invented space travel and flew to Venus. Imagine that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. The book is about relationships between men and women. You see, all through my elementary school years, girls repeatedly told me that “Boys go to Jupiter, to get more stupider.” Well, whether or not we are going to Jupiter, at least now we know that we came from Mars. The title of the book came as something of a revelation to me. The off-duty stewardess sitting next to me was reading a copy with religious devotion.
John Gray’s Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus on the last leg of my journey back to the United States this summer.
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