The Language Of The Planets

January, 1999

One of my jobs as your Men columnist is to save you from major mistakes with the opposite sex. Of course, I am the world's leading authority on the subject, having made more faux pas with women than anybody I know. So let me give you some well-researched advice about how to read between the lines of female verbiage.In the eyes of most creatures from the planet Estrogen you are basically a dumb ox from Planet Testosterone. In your world, words are utilitarian. You use them the way you would use a...