Discussion Questions
Use our LitLovers Book Club Resources; they can help with discussions for any book:
• How to Discuss a Book (helpful discussion tips)
• Generic Discussion Questions—Fiction and Nonfiction
• Read-Think-Talk (a guided reading chart)
Also consider these LitLovers talking points to help get a discussion started for Do Gentlement Really Prefer Blonds?:
1. What surprised you most about Pincott's book? Which sections left you with a "suspicions confirmed" feeling...a knowing nod of your head? Any study results that confound you..or you feel can't possibly be true?
2. The studies Pincott compiled indicate how little rational control we have over our initial sexual attractions: she writes, "All the time...you're making decisions beyond your conscious awareness, and people respond to you in ways and for reasons unconscious to them." Do you find that information comforting...or disconcerting?
3. Do the "rules of attraction" as spelled out in this book seem to favor you...or not? Are they even "fair"? (And who says life is fair?)
4. In what ways are women choosier than men in selecting a mate? And why?
5. In what ways have some of Pincott's observations played out in your own life, with your own choices? Big mistakes? Little ones?
6. Discuss some of the many differences between men and women that Pincott explains in her book?
7. Do the sum total of these explanations regarding our sexual preferences undermine the mysterious quality of love...or actually enhance its mystery for you?
8. Is the way to a man's heart really through his stomach?
(Questions by LitLovers. Please feel free to use them, online or off, with attribution. Thanks.)
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