Now, there's proof: Men, women different

The Washington Times ^ | December 2, 2005 | Jennifer Harper

[neverdem]

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The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com

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Now, there's proof: Men, women different

By Jennifer Harper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published December 2, 2005

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Attention, Dr. Frankenstein, and maybe Gloria Steinem: There are girl brains, then there are boy brains. But there's not one generic human brain, no matter what hand-wringing feminists may insist in their quest for sexual equality.

    Some stark new clinical evidence shows that men and women are just not the same upstairs.

    "The comedians are right. The science proves it. A man's brain and a woman's brain really do work differently," a research team from the University of Alberta in Canada announced yesterday.

    After analyzing magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs) of 23 men and 10 women, the team found that the sexes use different areas of the brain even when working on exactly the same task.

    "The larger implications of this work is that we may increasingly find out that there are differences in the 'hard wiring' of male and female brains," said study author Dr. Peter Silverstone, a psychiatrist.

    Though Dr. Silverstone hopes that these revelations will lead to more innovative ways to treat depression and other mental illnesses, these findings might one day explain certain persistent behaviors that make for a more lively existence.

    Why do men, for example, refuse to ask for directions while women are busy peering at maps and landmarks during the same automobile journey? Why do women cry and men sleep through a sappy movie? Could it be that old hard-wiring?

    During the Canadian study, volunteers were given memory, language, spatial and coordination tests while their brains were monitored through the MRIs.

[Lakeshark]

Dang....you're up early....

[Lakeshark]

Does this mean you really do check the internet before coffee?

:-)

[phantomworker]

Hey, I live in 2005! Wonder what 2006 will be like?

[phantomworker]

I have too much work to do...

[Lakeshark]

*Enjoying coffee*

A heuristical wonder...........someone I know from drizzletown will be responsible..........

[Lakeshark]

Are you cramming again?

[Diva Betsy Ross]

*lol*

[Diva Betsy Ross]

This is so true- why is it so funny? I am cryin at this thread. You all are very witty here.

[phantomworker]

Still need to get coffee...LOL!

[phantomworker]

Yup. Going for a deep dive. What are you doing this weekend?

[Lakeshark]

Late morning and early afternoon will be set aside for "honeydew lists". I might get bored and watch some USC/UCLA foosball later, then off to dinner with a hot date.........a certain hn who slept her way to the top.....

[phantomworker]

Have a fun day.

Is USC still #1?

[Lakeshark]

k.....make sure and come up for air occasionally....

Yes, but I don't think this year's team is as good as the last two years.

Beatable........plus they have the dumbest and cheesiest fight song ever written.

[phantomworker]

Enjoying coffee. Heuristic wonder from drizzletown? Starbucks? Once you get hooked on it, everything else seems so watered down.

[phantomworker]

What wrong with the fight song? (That's my school you know.) I turned on the TV a few weeks ago and SC won an amazing game in the last few seconds. Don't remember who they played... I just like watching guys putting out such a physical effort like that in tight uniforms! LOL!!! (hey, what can I say, I am a nerd).

[Lakeshark]

*Gagging about fight song*

Yes, I know it's sort of your school....for now....but you have to understand that the tight uniforms can have the ambiance destroyed by ultra-stoopid trombones and tubas.....

In that regard I like girls beach volleyball myself......no bad fightsongs either......

:-)

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

If this study bears fruit,...

LOL!

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Starting over again, after cleaning orange juice off my keyboard...

If this study bears fruit, it may provide munition for the arguement of people being born gay. That is, if it can be proved that gay men have the same physiological traits within their brains that match those of women.

That is what they were probably searching for to begin with: birth defects, a whole new socialist welfare venue...

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Otherwise, homosexuality can go back to being categorized for the mental illness it is and always has been.

Correctemundo... but, will that happen to change their religious idolatry of perversion?

Or the Drama Complex with Pavlovian behavioral conditioning for mutilation of and deviance with human anatomy found in the media and popular culture?

[phantomworker]

It's my school. One of them anyway. They send me T-shirts even. LOL! I'm half way through the masters program in systems architecture and engineering there. I guess the band is kind of dumb, but I don't notice.

I actually like beach volleyball, too. ???? Maybe because I used to play it. It probably doesn't have the same effect on me as it does on you though. LOL!!!

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Why do men, for example, refuse to ask for directions while women are busy peering at maps and landmarks during the same automobile journey?

Why are men less likely to be robbed, kidnapped and raped?

[phantomworker]

See! We proved it! Men, women are different!