Venus vs. Mars

I never did read that book by John Gray, "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus," which purports to explain the differences between men and women. Someone was carrying on about this book but I never read it. I sounded like it might be highly exaggerated and reduces people to simplistic cliches to say that men do nothing but confront each other in challenging ways as for example warfare while women are basically little more than sex objects. I think that these pop psychology books are not really helping a whole lot and might even create a lot of expectations in people of how everyone is supposed to fit into certain predetermined boxes that reduce society to little more than nomadic tribal groups warring amongst each other for survival of the fittest. Yes, men and women are very different but we all live on this planet called earth and therefore must get along. Are we really going to roll back centuries of progress and legalize dueling, white slavery, and other nefarious practices that have long been relegated to the darkest corners of society? I hope not but it is not really up to me. It is a group think kind of thing. Sometimes the individual just cannot win against the stupid group.