Wait, are you telling me that Dave Barry's Complete Men's Guide addresses women's issues? If "women's issues" include understanding why men spit, scratch, and give each other noogies, then this book certainly addresses them! Fall of Man, well, we might as well forget about it. Dave Barry may not make you feel better about the stature of women in today's world or the future of the human race, but I hope you can say this: you don't you're not a man. Dave Barry's book reminds me a lot of an episode of Seinfield: everything is about nothing. It tells the reader what the guys are thinking (nothing) and what their “deal” is (nothing). Although it does virtually nothing to help women understand or to help women understand, the only thing it does do is fulfill the manufacturer's warranty: you WILL laugh. Not only will you laugh, you'll laugh hard. You will laugh hysterically, in an obnoxious way. You'll want to share Dave Barry's ideas about the male species with everyone you know and every stranger you meet, especially if they're female. Barry's book talks little about the real reasons why men do what they do and more about why men do what they do. the fact that they are just bastards and idiots. According to Barry, people "give the impression that being a man is a very important activity, as opposed to what it essentially is, namely the possession of a set of minor and often unreliable organs" ( xi). You will be convinced that the title should not be "Complete Guide to Men", but "More Reasons Why Women Are the Better Sex". In fact, Barry himself seems to support the latter idea through his discussion of "the punch reflex", "the Noogie gene", the scientific reasons why men behave like fools, the hidden truth of the the space shuttle and standards. Yes, guys are just stupid idiots who like things that say "Brrrrrmmmmmmmmm!" But I suppose he would know: he's a man. It is a well-known fact that our world history is dominated by a tyrannical patriarchy in which the majority of women have been forgotten. Somehow, Barry says, these are the men who have been forgotten. "Men have played an important role in history, but that role has not received the attention it deserves because no one wrote it down."(9).