How to Train a Woman

I always like hearing Maureen Dowd on male-female relationships even if she sometimes emphasizes way too much her idea that men are too intimidated by powerful women to have lasting relationships with them (I suspect she's projecting some personal issues on that one)

But her fascination with the subject sometimes brings forth some interesting insights like this piece on the parallels between exotic animal training and spouse perfecting called How to Train a Woman

Though her joyfully poisonous style is always a pleasure to read, the real meat of what she refers to is in another ny times article by Amy Sutherland called What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage ...basically a lesson to most women about the value of reward over punishment in trying to get your guy to behave.

Pretty funny!


If ever the above liks are broken, you can find the Maureen Dowd piece here and the Amy Sutherland piece here