Just Whistle?

Tuesday November 4, 2008

In the midst of all the political news and columns I've been reading, I almost missed Lloyd Garver's column at The Huffington Post about a device that is supposed to help marriages. This is truly unbelievable. I can't imagine blowing a whistle to get Bob's attention!

"Marriage experts often point to poor communication as a cause for infidelity. There is a new invention that's supposed to help with this. It's called the SweetieDo. It's a "silent whistle," much like a dog whistle. I'm not kidding. The theory, supported by something called the NeuroImage Journal, is that it's a lot of work for a man to understand what a woman is saying, because the man first interprets the female voice as music ... I'm not buying - either the theory or the device. If a wife has to blow a whistle to get her husband's attention, the problem's the guy, not the wife. The music that will probably be playing in that marriage is "Taps."

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