I've always been fascinated about what goes on inside men's brain ever since I was old enough to understand the difference between the es. Growing up, I was actually closer to guys that to girls and enjoyed their company. For one, I like the lack of emotional attachment men have with each other, at least not on the surface. You know, you can tease and make fun of each other without worrying whether you've hurt your pal's feelings or not. Let's admit it, girls can be OVERSENSITIVE. kekeke~

But even with the years I've been with beings of the opposite , I still can't quite get them. They're still a fascinating subject until now and I've been reading up on things regarding the 'male world'.

Just a few days ago I bought this book at a second hand bookstore.

This is the description on Amazon. com:

Following in the tradition of John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me) and Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed), Norah Vincent absorbed a cultural experience and reported back on what she observed incognito. For more than a year and a half she ventured into the world as Ned, with an ever-present five o'clock shadow, a crew cut, wire-rim glasses, and her own size 111/2 shoes-a perfect disguise that enabled her to observe the world of men as an insider. The result is a sympathetic, shrewd, and thrilling tour de force of immersion journalism that's destined to challenge preconceptions and attract enormous attention.

With her buddies on the bowling league she enjoyed the rough and rewarding embrace of male camaraderie undetectable to an outsider. A stint in a high-octane sales job taught her the gut- wrenching pressures endured by men who would do anything to succeed. She frequented clubs, dated women hungry for love but bitter about men, and infiltrated all- male communities as hermetically sealed as a men's therapy group, and even a monastery. Narrated in her utterly captivating prose style and with exquisite insight, humor, empathy, nuance, and at great personal cost, Norah uses her intimate firsthand experience to explore the many remarkable mysteries of gender identity as well as who men are apart from and in relation to women. Far from becoming bitter or outraged, Vincent ended her journey astounded-and exhausted-by the rigid codes and rituals of masculinity. Having gone where no woman (who wasn't an aspiring or actual transual) has gone for any significant length of time, let alone eighteen months, Norah Vincent's surprising account is an enthralling reading experience and a revelatory piece of anecdotally based gender analysis that is sure to spark fierce and fascinating conversation. 

I'm still at the second chapter and it's about . Ohohohohoho. This should be interesting.

The writer has done something I've always fantasized of doing. I guess that's why the stories I write have multiple POVs becuase it's my way of getting into people's heads and putting myself in their shoes.  

I like the book so far. It's really intruiging. Maybe I'll write something about it soon.

Maybe you can also check out the book and we can share insights. ^_^