TOM MAGSTADT
Opinion
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus
We’ve all said it, or at least heard someone say it. It happened to be the day after Christmas and I got to wondering where the saying came from. Purely coincidental, of course.
A piece in the New York Times that day opened with this sentence: “Tell us a few details about you and we’ll guess which political party you belong to.” Like a person’s gender. Male or female? Mars or Venus? Comparing data from the decade 1968-1978 to the recent past (2008-2016) reveals that the gap between youn...