A lot of men just don't read. They don't read fiction at all.
Usually, guys, when something bad happens, they punish someone else.
People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.
A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox.
[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.
I am a bit of a Dudley Do-Gooder, though, because if I see a car accident or something bad happen, I am one of those idiots who runs toward the problem instead of away from it. Not that I would recommend this behavior.