I'd recommend reading through some of the comments on http://www.metafilter.com/85667/Hi-Whatcha-reading for some perspectives on how men and women experience the world very differently in many cases. While the general tenor of discussion gets a bit strident and I don't agree with a good deal of what's being said, it's very relevant to several comments in this thread. It seems to me always worth trying to understand how the world looks through other people's eyes.