Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget - a review

"Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget" by Marianne J. Legato, MD, is a self-help book along the lines of "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus". Dr. Legato's experience in gender specific medicine lends great credibility to this book that basically describes all the ways that men and women are different and gives some clues as to why that might be. From hormones to differences in the size and placement of various body organs, nature has insured that there will be differences. She speculates about the evolutionary advantages that such differences might have conferred and compares humans to animals which often show even more gender differences.

She is cautious almost never to state categorically why something appears to cause a difference, instead throwing out possibilities in the hope that we'll agree with one or the other. I found this a little unnerving because that isn't much better than simply listing all the differences and saying, "Well, we really don't know why these differences exist, but we have lots of documentation that shows they do."

The book is easy to read. It also tempts a person to find themselves or acquaintances in the examples she uses so profusely. But except for the overall, "Men and women are different. Get over it." sort of advice, there really isn't much else to the book. It's sort of a Do It Yourself kind of self-help book.