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Male-Female Brain Differences http://www.doctorhugo.org/brain4.html
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What kind of brain do you have? There really are big differences between the male and female brain, says Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University. In his new book, the Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain (published by Penguin) Baron-Cohen shows that, indisputably, on average male and female minds are of a slightly different character. Men tend to be better at analysing systems (better systemisers), while women tend to be better at reading the emotions of other people (better empathisers). Baron-Cohen shows that this distinction arises from biology, not culture.
Cell numbers: men have 4% more brain cells than women, and about 100 grams more of brain tissue. Many women have asked me why men need more brain tissue in order to get the same things done.
Cellular connections: even though a man seems to have more brain cells, it is reported that women have more dendritic connections between brain cells.
Corpus collosum size: it is reported that a woman's brain has a larger corpus collusum, which means women can transfer data between the right and left hemisphere faster than men. Men tend to be more left brained, while women have greater access to both sides.
Language: for men, language is most often just in the dominant hemisphere (usually the left side), but a larger number of women seem to be able to use both sides for language. This gives them a distinct advantage. If a woman has a stroke in the left front side of the brain, she may still retain some language from the right front side. Men who have the same left sided damage are less likely to recover as fully.
Limbic size: bonding/nesting instincts - current research has demonstrated that females, on average, have a larger deep limbic system than males. This gives females several advantages and disadvantages. Due to the larger deep limbic brain women are more in touch with their feelings, they are generally better able to express their feelings than men. They have an increased ability to bond and be connected to others (which is why women are the primary caretakers for children - there is no society on earth where men are primary caretakers for children). Females have a more acute sense of smell, which is likely to have developed from an evolutionary need for the mother to recognize her young. Having a larger deep limbic system leaves a female somewhat more susceptible to depression, especially at times of significant hormonal changes such as the onset of puberty, before menses, after the birth of a child and at menopause. Women attempt suicide three times more than men. Yet, men kill themselves three times more than women, in part, because they use more violent means of killing themselves (women tend to use overdoses with pills while men tend to either shoot or hang themselves) and men are generally less connected to others than are women. Disconnection from others increases the risk of completed suicides.
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interesting.
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Re: Females [Re: jewunit]
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I also used to think women are irrational. Now I just think they are irrational from our perspective.
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Re: Females [Re: Kamek]
#7994887 - 02/08/08 04:34 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Kamek said: I also used to think women are irrational. Now I just think they are irrational from our perspective.
*perceptive?
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Re: Females [Re: Ferris]
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I mean now I don't think they are irrational anymore. It's just that men think they are irrational for some reason or other. I think I am starting to realize why women behave the way they do and so it is not that irrational anymore...
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Re: Females [Re: Kamek]
#7994895 - 02/08/08 04:44 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I think it all depends on how we're defining "rational." For the majority of women, they want to settle down, have financial security, all that boring shit. Us guys, we want to do something, take risks. You know, all the stuff that makes life worth living. We tend to define rational from the female standpoint.
The reason men and women are always having problems with eachother is that few are afforded the opportunity to satisfy both requirements at once.
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Re: Females [Re: Ferris]
#7994914 - 02/08/08 05:07 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yes, rationality is perhaps not the best description of what we are trying to say here. Let's try to be a bit more specific.
ra·tion·al /ˈræʃənl, ˈræʃnl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[rash-uh-nl, rash-nl] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –adjective 1. agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development. 2. having or exercising reason, sound judgment, or good sense: a calm and rational negotiator. 3. being in or characterized by full possession of one's reason; sane; lucid: The patient appeared perfectly rational. 4. endowed with the faculty of reason: rational beings. 5. of, pertaining to, or constituting reasoning powers: the rational faculty. 6. proceeding or derived from reason or based on reasoning: a rational explanation. 7. Mathematics. a. capable of being expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers. b. (of a function) capable of being expressed exactly by a ratio of two polynomials. 8. Classical Prosody. capable of measurement in terms of the metrical unit or mora. –noun 9. Mathematics. rational number. [Origin: 1350–1400; ME racional < L ratiōnālis, equiv. to ratiōn- (s. of ratiō) reason + -ālis -al1]
—Related forms ra·tion·al·ly, adverb ra·tion·al·ness, noun
—Synonyms 2. intelligent, wise, judicious, sagacious, enlightened. 6. See reasonable. —Antonyms 2. stupid. 3. insane.
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Re: Females [Re: jewunit]
#7995040 - 02/08/08 06:50 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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jewunit said: Creatures of irrationality. And this doesn't even have to do with a relationship. They're just irrational people.
id say women feel before they think. men think before they feel. that said:
I have been witnessing a lot of younger women acting wildly irrational, but thats more of a culture/peer thing then reality.
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Re: Females [Re: jewunit]
#7995060 - 02/08/08 07:05 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I think human beings period are a disease
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Re: Females [Re: jewunit]
#7995172 - 02/08/08 08:10 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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if you really want to see the difference in rationality between women and men, spend one day at the engineering building of your local university, and then spend one day at the education building of your local university.
Youll experience the difference all right.
Every university-level class that i have had which was taught by a woman was completely different than my other classes. There are WAY more games and bullshit to sift through with a woman teacher. But then again, this could be just the 'liberal arts' bullshit that women seem to fit into. Society's a bitch, isnt it girls?
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Re: Females [Re: jewunit]
#7995225 - 02/08/08 08:29 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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jewunit said: Creatures of irrationality. And this doesn't even have to do with a relationship. They're just irrational people.
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!!!!
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Re: Females [Re: Ferris]
#7995232 - 02/08/08 08:31 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ferris said:
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Kamek said: I also used to think women are irrational. Now I just think they are irrational from our perspective.
*perceptive?
Umm... He had it right.... you're trying to substitute with a word that completely changes the sentence (In addition, your word is in the absolute wrong tense)
Also; I'm not even sure why I took the time to type all this.
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Re: Females [Re: jewunit]
#7995249 - 02/08/08 08:38 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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jewunit said: Creatures of irrationality. And this doesn't even have to do with a relationship. They're just irrational people.
Female behavior doesn't have to make sense to a man. See this as a relief and an opportunity.
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I agree with jewunit, females are creatures of irrationality.
But men are creatures of violence and destruction.
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tiny_rabid_birds said: just because they're intelligent, smart, good problem-solvers, whatever else doesn't mean they're not creatures of irrationality. because they so are. and yes, i'm stereotyping. but given my personal observations i feel it's a fairly accurate stereotype.
thats odd, because it seems to me more men are in jail then women. That leads me to believe the opposite.
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Women are less rational, but less violent. Men are more rational, but also tend to be more violent.
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As I see it this quandary has already been solved.
Women feel, men think.
By the dictionary's definition of rationality, this would make women irrational.
However, I'd say it's accurate to say that they rationalize using a different toolset.
Oh... but pregnant women... there's irrationality personified... and it's scary!
Point is, we rationalize with our minds and they rationalize with their feelings. It's not so much that they don't mull things over and approach them from a thought out prospective. It's only that they use their feelings as a guide which can lead to more explosive results. We think cause and effect, we think action and reaction. So, like I said, different toolsets.
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The statement that women are irrational in nature is irrational in itself. The fact is that women clearly have different kinds of priorities than men. To call this irrational is simply missing reality IMO.
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Well said
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