Well I just finished reading “For Young Men Only – a guy’s guide to the alien gender.” Probably not something I would have picked up and read for myself (being 29 years of age) but a surprisingly good read none the less.
The authors, Jeff Feildhahn and Eric Rice do a great job in covering many of the boyhood (and often manhood) misconceptions of “the alien gender.”
While I enjoyed reading both For Men Only and For Women Only, I honestly expected this book (which is naturally geared more towards high schoolers — and the fourth in the “Only” series) to be either way too informative or on the cheesy side of entertaining – but the book does a great job of avoiding both extremes. Throughout the book, both Eric and Jeff share spot-on illustrations from their own lives and interjected relevant ideas and situations for high-schoolers that kept me interested and believing what they had to tell me.
However, don’t expect this book to be a “how-to” or DIY type of dating book. Like the other books in the series, it’s really about debunking the common misconceptions guys (including myself) have about that “mysterious other sex.”
Including ::
- Girls only go for the good looking Abercrombie guys
- Girls only like bad boys
- Girls never make sense (still not sure this is really a misconception ;-))
- Girls go from “love” to “get lost” in seconds flat
- and others…
Perhaps if my friends and I had this book many moons ago, we would have had a completely different understanding of young women and written a lot less goofy stories, poems and songs about misunderstanding them — along with saving us a lot of heartache along the way.
If nothing else, the book will be a great resource to start a discussion between you and the young men in your life.
