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Larry Gonick
Females Explained
22 March 2009

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Larry Gonick

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Larry Gonick, the great American cartoonist, has been an inspiration for a whole generation of geeks, reared on his series of cartoon guides to science. His major work has been the 'Cartoon History of the Universe', now in its fifth volume. Larry was awarded the Ink-Pot award, something which is given annually by Comic-Con International to professionals in comic book, comic strip, animation, science fiction and pop-culture. Other luminaries to receive the award have included the film-maker Frank Capra, Edgar Rice-Burroughs and Steven Spielberg. He was elected by his peers to receive the 2003 Harvey Award given to Cartoon History III as "best graphic album of original work." In the comics world, this is the equivalent of an Oscar.

Larry has been a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and is currently staff cartoonist for Muse magazine. He has nearly one million copies of the Cartoon Guides in print.

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Subject: Loved It.
Posted by: Anonymous (not signed in)
Posted on: Monday, March 23, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Message: It just goes to show that nothing could ever explain females to us mere males.

Subject: Spot ON!!
Posted by: Anonymous (not signed in)
Posted on: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 at 6:58 AM
Message: Lost it at "Glad to" but at least I could understand the lanuage unlike what my wife was telling me this morning!

Subject: explains it all
Posted by: Anonymous (not signed in)
Posted on: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Message: Clearly males live in some esoteric world defined by their workplace and communicate only in jargon. It makes it difficult for them to understand plain language and the everyday world ;)

Subject: It's simple at a higher level
Posted by: Lee (view profile)
Posted on: Friday, May 22, 2009 at 1:42 PM
Message: The difference between men and women is simple, at least at a high level.

Men have an instinctive need to make a woman happy.

Women have an instinctive need to be happy.

In general, it works out pretty well.

The hard part follows from the fact that men like to communicate directly, in Booleans where possible; whereas women, like most great generals, prefer to use the indirect approach.

Men, being direct animals, expect women to communicate directly as well. But if women were writing the data types, a Boolean variable would be physically realized in NTEXT.

So misunderstandings abound whenever men take women at face value. And it gets worse when they try to interpret what women really mean (as opposed to what they say), because they have not the tools for it. Dorothy Parker probably understood Alley-Ooop pretty well, but it's not a commutative relationship/

Men are a list of machine-level commands. Women are an Excel spreadsheet. With men, you have op codes and data. With women, you have layers and layers of perspective and implied meaning.

Hope this helps.




 
























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