Men and women think and act differently, and now that’s a government-approved fact. Posted on 05/05/2015 6:58:19 AM PDT by lifeofgrace
Men and women think and act differently, and now that’s a government-approved fact.
The National Institutes of Mental Health, a federal agency with a budget of just under $1.5 billion, paid for a study to determine if men’s brains and women’s brains are wired differently.
They might well have also studied whether men can give birth, or women can father children.
This study, while good for the researchers who got to look at nearly 1,000 brain scans of men and women, and write scholarly papers based on their observations, contributed to the sum total of human knowledge in this way:
Nothing.
I cannot think of a burning question to which the answer could be more obvious and universally known. But since it’s now been submitted to rigorous scientific examination, let’s discuss the topic.
A great anecdotal example of how men and women think is this article mostly attributed to Dave Barry that’s all over the Web (here and here). Women think in long, interrelated chains of possibilities, cause, effect, nuances, and simulations, linked with emotions and feelings. Men think serially, and move from fact to fact, making mental notes along the way.
Anyone who doesn’t know this is mentally incapable of grasping much else. From our earliest age, we see how men and women think differently, and in fact, are, different, biologically, emotionally, and spiritually.
As children, we learn this by observing our parents, and this is the area I wish to discuss.
Based on the study, the differences between men and women, and boys and girls, are biologically programmed. These are not learned differences.
What difference does that make? A whole lot.
Whether a boy or girl believes they are different from the opposite sex in profound ways, or not, they are different. In profound ways.
A movement toward a genderless, and gender-identity-based society is gaining traction, in academia, and in law. The movement is based on the belief that
Gender is performative, it is comprised of routinised bodily and speech practices, rather than the manifestation of an ‘inner essence’.
This is rubbish.
This nonsense has found a voice in our society only because single-parent families account for over 30% of children; in 2012, 24.75 million children were raised in single parent homes, the vast majority by single mothers. These children don’t see an interaction between male and female thinking in their home environment, so they have little basis to challenge what they're told.
A man can’t think like a woman. His brain doesn’t work that way.
Telling a boy that he can be a she based on behavior is teaching a scientific falsehood. Yet that’s exactly what the genderless movement is teaching.
No matter how much you tell a little girl that she can grow up to be a man, she is going to think with a woman’s brain, and process the world and organize her thoughts like a woman.
These maps show us a stark difference--and complementarity--in the architecture of the human brain that helps provide a potential neural basis as to why men excel at certain tasks, and women at others
The NIMH study shows that men and women excel at complementary tasks. This means we complete one another at a very basic level. Whether you believe in a God-created world or humans evolved from goo and apes, the fact remains that we exist as interlocking pieces, physically, and also mentally.
It’s damaging and unfair to raise children to believe in some myth where we get to choose what gender we are based on some emotional desire or “inner essence”. These children ultimately grow up with a very shallow understanding of such basic concepts as attraction, love, family, and child-rearing.
It’s shallow because they are being taught that any group of people living together with shared physical attraction and friendship constitutes a family in every sense. I get it that family can be viewed in many senses: a work family, a church family, people we love. But there are different kinds of love: pure physical attraction and emotional compatibility can be love, a brotherly or sisterly affection can be love, and the love between a mother or father and child is also love. But the love bond between a husband and wife is different than any other love bond.
The husband-wife love bond is based on the complementary differences between men and women. A lifelong marriage based on mutual love, respect, and commitment reinforces that bond. In other words, men and women are hard wired to support each other’s strengths and weaknesses at a very basic mental level, and marriage creates the strong bond and behavior that maximizes those.
The same cannot be said about same-sex marriages. It can’t be said because two men don’t have complementary brains. Neither do two women. Men can be with men, and women can be with women in long term relationships, but it’s a lot harder, because they are working against the natural (yes, natural) function of their brains.
In fact, same-sex relationships are characterized by much higher incidences of breakups, promiscuity, and violence.
I understand that some men and women are physically or emotionally attracted to the same sex. Some of this is based on negative experiences or abuse in their past. Science now tells us that, hard as they try, men can’t complete each other, and women can’t complete each other in the basic ways their brains are hard wired. Teaching our children otherwise is lying to them.
The Bible told us that 3,000 years ago.
Uh oh.
For years we were told there is no difference between the sexes, and that has been a cornerstone of many social programs and initiatives championed by politicians.
I expect those types to try and bury this.
Reality BUMP!
Look, there’s no reason a little marxist social re-engineering can’t erase the biological differences between men and women created by some mere God.
“The Bible told us that 3,000 years ago.”
And that’ the problem. People don’t want to be reminded about that Creator - but He stubbornly won’t go away, as will not His truths about his creation.
For the wrath of God lis revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
If the government swears it’s true, I am now prepared to consider the possibility that it’s completely incorrect.
My first 'toon crush!
This must be the liberal government’s way of verifying God’s work.
God created men and women to complement each other, both physically and mentally. In this way, each one completes the other.
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” Aristotle
“It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals” Felix Frankfurter
Swedish researchers have been studying the brains of men and women and determined that some people really are born with the brain of one sex and the body of the other. The ones who recognize it call themselves transsexuals. The ones who don’t call themselves homosexuals.
Back when I was young and foolish I decided I just wanted to live with a man instead of being married to one. My doctor told me I was unlikely to get pregnant (I don’t remember what he said the problem was) and I bought the argument that marriage was some type of male plot against women.
the first guy I lived with eventually decided he was really a woman and had an operation. I thought it was great that he was defecting to the better sex.
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