That's a rather funny joke, however incorrect and sexist it may be. But I'm willing to have a laugh. What I'm NOT willing to do is pay AU$10 for a blank book to either show my friends the punch-line or for whatever reason prove the title untrue (despite the fact I don't need to).
I'm not the type of person who yells and screams every time someone makes a stereotype which insults me, expecting people to change their speech to accomodate me when they only really meant a laugh in the first place. However, there are a few stereotypes which, when I here them harped on about and placed in books and sold and talked about in serious conversation (where they have no place), I die a little inside and sometimes I do want to yell and scream. This is one of those stereotypes.
I'm refusing to call this man by his title until I know he's done something more with it than get rich off a joke.
However, he could have done it so that guys can fill it with ideas and things and prove to people who actually DO think all men think about is sex (*ahem* feminists) that we have more knowledge and wisdom than primeval urges. If so this man's alright, but he more than likely did it for the joke and this bit's just a handy extra to make him SEEM alright...
Wow, I sound like he's a conspiracist. Next he'll be wanting to take over the whitehouse with his amazing joke and then BAM all men are confined to slavery and all women are confined to him, thus proving his book in a rather bitter irony. Who's laughing now HUH?!
I'm sorry, I really need something else to think about besides uni right now...