Have you ever considered what it would be like to be a member of the opposite gender?

[ventoux50]

Which is exactly the attitude that means we still have gender stereotyping and inequality.

No one said "women hater" or "men hater". That there is stereotyping going on is there for anyone to see. That stereotyping is sexist.


If you said "lighten up" about comments that were racist people would, quite rightly, think you were a tit.

As for Fran's comments, initially I was going to assume they were meant ironically and then I realised that I couldn't let male prejudice slide either, or else I'd be hypocritical. With our culture as it currently stands, we have to set an example. So I hope Fran was being ironic but still, I didn't want to seem unfair.

Sam

Do you by any chance live under ground in a little cave - are you a :troll: ?


or is it 'that time' again ?















that was a poor attempt at 'irony'

 

[Globalti]

I don't think my voice could take all the chatting and I'm certain my memory couldn't retain all the things that my husband or BF said to me all those years and months ago. I like to discuss the issue, reach agreement then forget everything for ever, it leaves room for a simplified operating system.

 

[iAmiAdam]

Oh come on people, it's a bit of fun, let's not go all PC on it.

/runs for cover.

 

[Ravenbait]

wow - started reading this thinking it was a bit of fun then got to Ravenbaits rant whoah neddy !


I'd love to be a woman just so that once a month I could be totally ready to fly off the handle at the slightest thing, be rude/aggressive without provocation - and then have a genuine physiological phenomenon to blame it on !

But I'm not at all cynical.

That wasn't a rant. I get truly epic when I'm ranting. That was a piece of commentary.

Cynical isn't the word I'd use, certainly.

Sam

 

[theclaud]

Do you by any chance live under ground in a little cave - are you a :troll: ?


or is it 'that time' again ?















that was a poor attempt at 'irony'

You can say that again...

 

[ttcycle]

What's the frequency of these type of threads appearing?

I do think that looking at how things are different is valid but the lazy stereotyping is the issue...

 

[ventoux50]

Time for a few folk to get out for a ride and bust that stress I reckon . . . . . . . . then come back happy smiley people

 

[Crackle]

I don't think my voice could take all the chatting and I'm certain my memory couldn't retain all the things that my husband or BF said to me all those years and months ago. I like to discuss the issue, reach agreement then forget everything for ever, it leaves room for a simplified operating system.

Now you see that's potentially interesting as lots of studies have shown that male and female brains use different areas or different intensities of neural processing when being given the same piece of information. It's postulated that female brains (and you don't have to be female here just to confuse things), process more information and reference things which male brains discard or can't process. In other words they learn in different ways. It may be quite likely that a female brain is carrying a lot more information around about an event in other to recall or use it.

I'm not going to postulate on Ventoux50's neural processing though

 

[Arch]

I'm not going to postulate on Ventoux50's neural processing though

You assume he (?) has any....

 

[Ravenbait]

Now you see that's potentially interesting as lots of studies have shown that male and female brains use different areas or different intensities of neural processing when being given the same piece of information. It's postulated that female brains (and you don't have to be female here just to confuse things), process more information and reference things which male brains discard or can't process. In other words they learn in different ways. It may be quite likely that a female brain is carrying a lot more information around about an event in other to recall or use it.

I think stuff like this is fascinating. Presumably what this says is that there are various methods brains use to process information and there's a particular distribution that has one median in the male set and one in the female. My brain's wired all weird because (well, maybe because) I lost an eye when I was a baby and I know my brain processes things differently from most people, both men and women.

Given that there are obvious biological differences it would be naive to insist that there were no differences at all in the way that men and women do things.

I'm not going to postulate on Ventoux50's neural processing though

Oh, I dunno. Might be fun to stick his head in an fMRI and show him pictures of things. I've always wanted to do that (for myself, I mean, not Ventoux50).

Sam

 

[661-Pete]

Have you ever considered what it would be like to be a member of the opposite gender?

Judging by your avatar, you were going through the 'op' at the time. Which are you now?

 

[theclaud]

Now you see that's potentially interesting as lots of studies have shown that male and female brains use different areas or different intensities of neural processing when being given the same piece of information. It's postulated that female brains (and you don't have to be female here just to confuse things), process more information and reference things which male brains discard or can't process. In other words they learn in different ways. It may be quite likely that a female brain is carrying a lot more information around about an event in other to recall or use it.

I'm not going to postulate on Ventoux50's neural processing though

Ah - the old "lots of studies show" thing. What studies? And what do they show that's of any consequence? Does no one else ever notice that stuff like the bit in bold makes no sense whatever - if the "female brain" is not er, female, then why call it the female brain? Could it be - and I hazard a wild cynical guess here - that it means "the sort of brain that thinks in the sort of way that we would like to think is female but er, isn't really?" It never ceases to amaze me how otherwise scientifically literate people are taken in by this stuff...

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I couldn't be doing with shaving every day, for instance. Although I guess you could just grow a beard.

That's what I do. I grow a beard until my other half tells me I look like a retired physics teacher (usually about two months), then shave it off. Then I go through about three days of people telling me "you've had a shave!", as if I somehow wasn't already aware of that.

 

[Crackle]

Well as a further aside, it used to be thought that all brains were created equal until they were exposed to the sexualising chemicals of testosterone and oestrogen. However there is emerging evidence that in fact male and female brain chemistry is a lot more complex and gender definiton is formed as the brain is developing. In particular, they looked at a number of gender re-assignment cases where children were born with ambiguous genitalia. Decisions were made on the basis of most likely but in many cases were wrong as the patient grew up 'feeling' different to their gender re-assignment. Autism is believed to be an extreme chemical male brain makeup.

Anyway back on thread. Having your genitals outside your body might be handy for peeing behind trees but it doesn't half sting when you get hit there.

 

[ttcycle]

Come on guys - the fact that several of you think it's amusing to post that 'it's the time of the month' to a prefectly valid point demonstrates the amount of stupidity inherent in some of the posters. Can you not rub together two brain cells to come up with a perfectly cohesive answer to the points raised or do you have to attempt to try and be funny haha by relying on a weak and sexist joke.

Get a ****ing grip honestly!