There You Have It — Men And Women Are Not Identical
For decades the p.c. crowd has tried drilling into people’s heads the notion that men and women (aside from the sex differences) are otherwise completely identical. Any noticeabe differences were always blamed on the “lingering male patriarchy.”
Well it turns out that the p.c. crowd may be wrong after all. Brain scans of men and women show that the emotional wiring of the sexes is completely different.
Sheesh, what would we do without researchers?
April 21st, 2006 at 7:52 am
When thinking about human behavior, think “TRIBE”.
Or ‘village’ or ‘clan’. That’s how we lived for hundreds of thousands of years before there were towns or cities. People lived and died in small groups; some had children who survived to have their own children, other’s did not. That is what Darwin called ‘natural selection’.
Example of sex differences due to natural selection. A fourteen year old ‘girl’ with a new baby — is the baby more likely to survive if the girl’s mother is there to help? Hell yes. so, we have selection in favor of babies with long-lived female ancestors. And that is why women live longer than men today. Old women are more useful than old men!
Think of this fact when wondering why most men are better than most women at spacial calculations, and therefore math — and women are better at interpersonal relationships, and therefore language.
Differential reproductive success = natural selection = the engine of Evolution. You can believe in ‘Intelligent Design’ and still accept this.
April 21st, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Wouldn’t you know? OINK is everywhere and as usual, talking about SEX!
The basic thing is PEOPLE ARE NOT IDENTICAL.
PEOPLE are like a “line graph”…..at either end are 100% males and 100% females and all in between, at various points, are all the mixes of male/female PEOPLE…………speaking JUST from an emotional level.
I could speculate and say that at a point in the middle of this graph, are gays and lesbians.
April 21st, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Thank goodness men and women ARE different. I like being female. I’m not male, therefore I don’t desire to be treated like a man.
Interesting thoughts Oink and OCM- you always give an interesting perspective
April 21st, 2006 at 5:25 pm
OCM, this blog is NOT striving to preserve its lowbrow status — that’s ANOTHER BLOG.
Male/Female may describe a person 1. physically — seldom in doubt except for birth defects. Or maybe a person’s 2. social interests — interests that show up on the MMPI personality test. Or perhaps what 3. appeals to you sexually — do you like boys or girls.
All three traits are independent, e.g. a 1. MAN might like 2.flowers, music and intimate conversations 3. but only want to have sex with women.
All 6 combinations exist. (3 x 2 x 1)
April 21st, 2006 at 7:54 pm
Oink, now I’m confused.
Let me give you all an example of how men and women are different. Let’s say I were to, one day, have a bad day at work. Chances are, if I talk to a girl friend about it she’ll say “oh that’s terrible” or “oh that so and so is such a bitch” or “what morons” and then the two of us would go on back and forth. It would make me feel better to have my friend see things as I do, and thus validate what I would be feeling.
Now on the other hand, let’s say that after a bad day, I were to confide in a male friend/boyfriend/spouse. 99% of the time, the guy would say, “gee I’m sorry to hear that. You should do x, y and z and everything will be fine.” And that would be the end of the discussion. And if I were to still be upset after that, the guy would be confused as ever, being that he just told me what do to make the situation better.
April 22nd, 2006 at 2:54 am
Zelda: I’m confused as to why you’re confused. We agree.
Women tend to be process oriented. Men want to kill that large quadriped and drag it back to the tribe so we can eat.
April 22nd, 2006 at 7:07 am
Mrs. Fitzgerald: One clarification as to my point. The behavior you described is part of the second, the social aspect, of sexuality.
And I wish people would stop asking about my “gender” on forms. NOUNS have gender.