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...Becker's Defending the Caveman is probably one of the best explorations of the comical and often frustrating relationships between the sexes. It is hilariously funny, yet at the same time makes one think about their own stereotypes of men and women: Are all men really "self-centered, immature, annoyingly incompetent assholes" or is that just one of those things people...
...Becker takes the stage like a modern day Fred Flintstone in blue jeans, work-boots and a T-shirt which reveals a definite gut. The set resembles a half-prehistoric, half-modern bachelor pad, complete with stone slab chair and hamper full of dirty laundry...
...result of all this animosity? Becker says that men and women have lost the capacity for honest communication. His theory is that the differences between the sexes stem from the time when men were hunters and women were gatherers. Thus men tend to focus on the singular, while women tend to gather numerous things around them. For example, when women shop, they will often search for absolutely nothing in particular which "they will know as soon as they find it." Men, on the other hand, will focus on buying one item ("Me want shirt. Me get shirt. Go home, watch...
Northeastern's Levin predicts that "the security industry is a growth industry into the next millennium," and that sector's huge current profitability supports the prophecy. Ads for De Becker's latest book also trumpet "Gift of Fear Seminars," and although some may find his approach too theoretical or mistake his emphasis on prevention for blaming the victim, he will probably make a lot of money and save a few lives...
...seem almost churlish to wonder what sort of jumpy society will result from so many people becoming so sensitized to potential violence. De Becker claims that a calmly employed intuition, bolstered by knowledge, is actually "the exact opposite of living in fear." He describes a woman who was unjustifiably unnerved when he joined her in an elevator. "A man who gets into the elevator on another floor," he writes, "a man who gives her no undue attention, who presses the button for a floor other than the one she has selected...who stands a substantial distance from...