{"id":312,"date":"2008-12-17T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=312"},"modified":"2008-12-17T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T17:42:00","slug":"do-gentlemen-really-prefer-blondes-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2008\/12\/do-gentlemen-really-prefer-blondes-by.html","title":{"rendered":"Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes? by Jena Pincott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0385342152\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains&#8211;The Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction<\/a> is the sort of book I normally enjoy: a review of psychological studies linked to corresponding real life experiences.  But I didn&#8217;t enjoy this one.  It&#8217;s too depressing to realize that we <i>are<\/i> that shallow.  The author makes a point of it being men vs. women, which contributes to the depressing air of the book, but we&#8217;re all human and some of the ways in which women suck are sprinkled in there too.  <\/p>\n<p>So men really like big breasts and women really like big bank accounts and maybe there&#8217;s nothing we can even do about it because it&#8217;s programmed into our genetic code, but I don&#8217;t think I need to read about it anymore.  Thankfully, we are not all the average.  I can find a man who loves my big brain and moderate boobs and can love his short stature and moderate earnings right back.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the book was printed in purple.  I could have hated it for this alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains&#8211;The Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction is the sort of book I normally enjoy: a review of psychological studies linked to corresponding real life experiences. But I didn&#8217;t enjoy this one. It&#8217;s too depressing to realize that we are that shallow. The author makes a point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}