SHOCKING Study Reveals: Men and Women are Different

Scientific American ^ | June 2002 | Doreen Kimura

[RogerFGay]

SHOCKING!

[FastCoyote]

I guess this is why punching the girls at work in the arm and asking them to wrestle doesn't seem to illicit the desired response.

[Ken H]

All you have to do is unzip their genes and you'll see that they're different.

[Jaidyn]

LOL! It is that simple for most of us, though now days you never know what is under a dress or jeans!

[goldstategop]

Why the NOW NAGs have been saying all this time equality meant they couldn't be different! What are they gonna say now? No wonder this is a SHOCKING study!!!

[weikel]

Ping

[R. Scott]

How unPC!
Does this mean that political correctness will no longer rule social research?

[muggs]

LOL

[RogerFGay]

We know, for instance, from observations of both humans and nonhumans that males are more aggressive than females

It reminds me of the scene from the movie Species. The researcher explained; "We decided to create a female because we believed she would be more docile than a male."

RESPONSE: "Gee doc, you don't get out much do you?"

[RogerFGay]

We also know that in general males are better at a variety of spatial or navigational tasks.

Take that Roseanne! Real men don't need to stop and ask for directions.

[Scully]

Elizabeth Hampson of the University of Western Ontario showed that women's performances at certain tasks changed throughout the menstrual cycle as levels of estrogen varied. High levels of the hormone were associated not only with relatively depressed spatial ability but also with enhanced speech and manual skill tasks.

All kidding aside, this is an important finding. Females may be compelled biochemically to seek verbal communication with their mates during early to mid-cycle when estrogen levels are highest.

[sinclair]

Viva la difference!

[jlogajan]

If it is true that male and female behavioral characteristics are hormonally influenced early in life, it also gets harder for the religious homo-hating crowd to keep claiming that homosexuality is a choice.

[FairWitness]

I listened to part of a discussion on C-Span lately where the subject was the harm being done to men's sports, particularly the "minor" ones like wrestling, by the Title IX insistence on proportional representation. One of the more interesting things I heard was an audience member (in response to some argument that women and men do not differ) talk about how neuroanatomy has now shown clear difference in male and female brain architecture. He said that it is now known that female brain cells are actually different in size and establish more connections to other brain cells compared to the male (don't know if this is supposed to apply to the whole brain or only some specific parts). He also said that it is now possible on scans to distinguish male and female babies in utero by their brains (as well as by the more traditional marker)!

[goldstategop]

I think the heterophobes will make the argument gayness is hormonally driven and you can't help being the way you are. Hence why gays need special protections and handouts, etc. Its already happening.

[William Terrell]

It's interesting that the problem solving tasks in the two columns for men show perceptions and skills that are beneficial for building civilization, and those for women show perceptions and skills for using civilization.

[goldstategop]

I'm not surprised. Its women who turn the boys into men. And they make sure male sexual appetites receive a constructive expression. We should really express more gratitude they're around, or we'd be still in loin cloths carrying clubs and dragging wooly mammoth carcasses into the cave. Having the fair sex is the price men pay for civilization.

[William Terrell]

Certainly, men build civilization for women. This the price of a piece of ass.

[RogerFGay]

We should really express more gratitude they're around, or we'd be still in loin cloths carrying clubs and dragging wooly mammoth carcasses into the cave. Having the fair sex is the price men pay for civilization.

Humans are incapable of reproducing asexually. If they weren't around, there is no doubt whatsoever that we would not be in loin cloths carrying clubs and dragging wooly mammoth carcasses into the cave. And just as a side point, in their time that was civilization. Why were we wearing loin cloths to begin with?

[ValerieUSA]

If early influence is important in determining sexual identity, then queers need to recruit younger and younger children.