What exactly are you disputing, that there's chemical differences or that those differences are not significant?
Have you ever considered what it would be like to be a member of the opposite gender?
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What exactly are you disputing, that there's chemical differences or that those differences are not significant?
Ravenbait
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I interpreted it as meaning that some nerdy bloke with a retort stand (which makes it SCIENCE, I'll have you know), put a bunch of blokes and a bunch of wimmin through fMRI and came out with two overlapping populations of response patterns, one of which had more wimmin than blokes in it and vice versa.
That's how I'd do it, anyway. I'd be surprised if no one has done it yet, given that you can get grants for that sort of thing.
Like I said: it would be disingenuous to claim that males and females think exactly the same way. Once the process of gestation has decided to plump for one or the other then we have innate biological differences. Also, how we use our brains can change the structures of it, so applied gender stereotyping could, in and of itself, be responsible for differences in processing methods. Distinguishing between processing differences caused by nature and differences caused by nurture would be a study well worth doing.
That's no excuse for cretinous comments like reiver's though. He must have some other reason for posting rubbish.
Sam
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er, yes....meanwhile back on the ranch...
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Ravenbait
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I found this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20725910
Although that showed no difference in the resting state, the abstract mentions studies that have shown differences during cognitive task performance.
Sam
Although that showed no difference in the resting state, the abstract mentions studies that have shown differences during cognitive task performance.
Sam
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lets just pause a moment - most of the early entries on this thread revolve around mens observations of the female type, and vise versa, get a group of men together and a lot of the 'observations' would be re-itterated in conversation.
Being a man I know this for a fact - however, in my experience, conversations of that type are usually not malicious, but a commentary on 'life' such as it is.
Quite what a group of women chat about in a similar group I wouldn't know ( I could guess it would be the latest rom com on TV or the latest Jimmy Choos - but that would be a stereotypical mode of thinking wouldn't it ?)
Women regularly use conversational quips to poke fun at men, most men take this in theeir stride and in good humour . . . . . . is this where the major difference between the genders lies ? Men have a sense of humour and women dont ? - discuss.
Being a man I know this for a fact - however, in my experience, conversations of that type are usually not malicious, but a commentary on 'life' such as it is.
Quite what a group of women chat about in a similar group I wouldn't know ( I could guess it would be the latest rom com on TV or the latest Jimmy Choos - but that would be a stereotypical mode of thinking wouldn't it ?)
Women regularly use conversational quips to poke fun at men, most men take this in theeir stride and in good humour . . . . . . is this where the major difference between the genders lies ? Men have a sense of humour and women dont ? - discuss.
Has anyone else read:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Self-made-M...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1287153566&sr=1-1
"Self made man", by Nora Vincent? She spent a year disguised as a man... I found it very interesting. Ultimately, she was glad that she is a woman.
For myself - being able to wear a skirt is good, and being able to wear a light dress when the men are sweating in trousers is even better.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Self-made-M...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1287153566&sr=1-1
"Self made man", by Nora Vincent? She spent a year disguised as a man... I found it very interesting. Ultimately, she was glad that she is a woman.
For myself - being able to wear a skirt is good, and being able to wear a light dress when the men are sweating in trousers is even better.
As a man, I have to say I appreciate the effect of this sentiment, even if I end up sweating.
Not worth an answer then. I'm quite willing to be educated about the faults of these studies, I'm quite open minded and certainly haven't come to any conclusions based on stuff I've read, merely found it potentially interesting.
Ravenbait
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I don't and I don't like it when others do.
While I hate to have to use the phrase, "male privilege" is trying to enter into the conversation.
It's nothing to do with the sense of humour.
This isn't Politics & Life so I don't really want to launch into a long-winded discussion of male privilege, gender politics, sexual inequality and why your above conclusion is facetious at best. Besides which, I suspect I'd be wasting my time.
I applaud the OP for sparking what could have been (and could still be) a really interesting conversation. So. Anyone else have any thoughts that are directly pertinent to the topic?
Sam
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See, I think men should be able to wear whatever the hell they like. But yeah, it would be a bit awkward for a bloke to turn up to the day job in a flowery M&S number. Which is sad, really. Mind you, the cut would be all wrong.
Sam
Thank you, I may well order that, that's exactly the kind of book I find interesting.
ttcycle
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Back to the OP,
I agree, i don't reckon I'd like to shave as often as men have to- especially when you get those ingrown hairs along your neck near the adams apple but then as RT suggests, growing a beard is ok but then it starts to itch a bit
What I'd like to be able to do is piss standing up but wouldn't take the compromise of having external bits! However, just for the record it damn well hurts when they get hit whether you're male of female!!
I agree, i don't reckon I'd like to shave as often as men have to- especially when you get those ingrown hairs along your neck near the adams apple but then as RT suggests, growing a beard is ok but then it starts to itch a bit
What I'd like to be able to do is piss standing up but wouldn't take the compromise of having external bits! However, just for the record it damn well hurts when they get hit whether you're male of female!!
