Posted on 11/28/2006 6:32:35 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
She is a feminist. She has a trouble saying nice things about men's ability, such as math and spatial reasoning.
We hold these truths to be self-evident...
It's gotta be satire.
Further proof of this is the fans of gossip magazines, judge judy, oxygen...etc. Mostly wimmin.
All these venues are sources of mindnumbing, endless blather.
yackety yackety yaak
I'll never forget this one time a boss of mine needed to wipe his glasses. A coworker had tissues on her desk and he headed toward them. She said,
"Those have lotion in them." (he keeps walking)
"Those have lotion in them." (he reaches for a tissue)
"Those have lotion in them." (he wipes his glasses with tissue.)
Boss: "Argh! These have lotion in them!"
So much for compromise,eh?
Not to be the thread police, but here is yesterday's thread with the usual sarcastic FReeper replies.
Ah yes...a buzz. Now that's scientific.
the simple act of talking triggers a flood of brain chemicals which give women a rush similar to that felt by heroin addicts when they get a high
Oh now I understand because everybody knows all about heroin. Oy.
The book - written by a female psychiatrist - says that inherent differences between the male and female brain explain why women are naturally more talkative than men. In The Female Mind, Dr Luan Brizendine says women devote more brain cells to talking than men.
Devote more brain cells, NEED to devote more brain cells, EXPEND more brain cells, WASTE more brain cells...so many ways to "say" not quite the same thing with fewer words.
Dr Brizendine, a self-proclaimed feminist, says the differences can be traced back to the womb, where the sex hormone testosterone moulds the developing male brain. The areas responsible for communication, emotion and memory are all pared back the unborn baby boy.
Pared back or streamlined?
"Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road," said Dr Brizendine, who runs a female "mood and hormone" clinic in San Francisco.
Exactly what is "processing emotion". It seems to me that the eight-lane superhighway is oftentimes overwhelmed and gridlocked. It sure doesn't seem like an advantage. Particularly if a "mood and hormone" clinic is necessary to tend the roadway.
Dr Brizendine explains that testosterone also reduces the size of the section of the brain involved in hearing - allowing men to become "deaf" to the most logical of arguments put forward by their wives and girlfriends.
Again, "reduces" or "streamlines and finely tunes"? Further, why the assumption that the arguments coming from so much talk is "logical"? It seems to me that logic is not a byproduct of the eight-lane superhigway for processing emotion but is drowned out by all that traffic. But I guess we'll leave that to the "mood and hormone" clinics to sort out.
Surely there are differences between men and women. Of that I have no doubt. Surely those differences are all valuable. I suspect the writer was looking for ways to justify all that heroin buzz she was getting from just talking to these researchers about her brain.
Our quotas for the unimportant get filled quickly, I guess.
What I think is hilarious is that very few men will disagree with the 52 second number.
Is this J-D-able? =)
Women's version:
Woman2: Oh! You got a haircut! That's so cute!
Woman1: Do you think so? I wasn't sure when she gave me the mirror. I mean, you don't think it's too fluffy looking?
Woman2: Oh God no! No, it's perfect. I'd love to get my hair cut like that, but I think my face is too wide. I'm pretty much stuck with this stuff I think.
Woman1: Are you serious? I think your face is adorable. And you could easily get one of those layer cuts - that would look so cute I think. I was actually going to do that except that I was afraid it would accent my long neck.
Woman2: Oh - that's funny! I would love to have your neck! Anything to take attention away from this two-by-four I have for a shoulder line.
Woman1: Are you kidding? I know girls that would love to have your shoulders. Everything drapes so well on you. I mean, look at my arms - see how short they are? If I had your shoulders I could get clothes to fit me so much easier.
Men's version:
Man2: Haircut?
Man1: Yeah.
For many of us (men), the "52 second" number seems a bit on the conservative side. Perhaps it is skewed by the football season. Fortunately, there are cheerleaders to remind us.
From one of my favorite Life In Hell cartoon clips,
"Fish won't bite when girls are talking"
Women really should not be surprised when men eventually tune out the constant talking as just background noise.
Ladies, save the inane chatter for your girlfriends and just get to the bloody point. You'd be amazed how well we'll react to that simple act of compromise.
Mostly nagging I have found out.
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