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Now, there's proof: Men, women different
The Washington Times ^ | December 2, 2005 | Jennifer Harper

Posted on 12/02/2005 12:29:36 AM PST by neverdem


The Washington Times
www.washingtontimes.com

Now, there's proof: Men, women different

By Jennifer Harper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published December 2, 2005

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.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brain; brainimaging; men; nuclearoption; sexdifferences; wodlist; women
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To: sweetliberty
"...he found that men have more than six times the amount of gray matter -- which controls information processing -- in their brains as women do."

"However; women actually USE theirs."

It appears some women use it to bash the "opposite sex."

"Different" means "different," it doesn't mean better or worse, just "different." I've read there are other factors (differences) between the male and female brains, such as the density of the tissues in areas of the brain that affect intelligence. Men and women process information differently, respond differently to many stimuli, and perform tasks differently. More effort to understand our differences, and less effort to exacerbate the conflicts arising out of our differences, would probably make lives happier/better for men and women.

Most would agree (at least the heterosexuals) that there are some really wonderful differences between men and women.

161 posted on 12/03/2005 11:43:00 AM PST by MensRightsActivist
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To: EsmeraldaA
Actually, I was going to say that very thing.

Was trying to be nice........

:-)

162 posted on 12/03/2005 11:43:07 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Lakeshark
Maybe if you type it very slowly, it would be better......for me.

LMAO!
163 posted on 12/03/2005 11:52:17 AM PST by EsmeraldaA
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To: Lakeshark; EsmeraldaA

I don't get it either... Can you please explain what you mean, Lakeshark? :)


164 posted on 12/03/2005 11:53:24 AM PST by phantomworker (We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are.<==> Perception is everything.)
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To: EsmeraldaA
Re-do:

I don't get it....Sir

My point exactly........

*rolling eyes*

165 posted on 12/03/2005 11:55:05 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: phantomworker
Hmmmmm......

*Shark re-reading t-shirt*

:-)

166 posted on 12/03/2005 11:57:33 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: MensRightsActivist
"Most would agree (at least the heterosexuals) that there are some really wonderful differences between men and women."

Absolutely. As I said, I was just kidding about the comment I made. It was just too easy to pass up. And there is no shortage of female baching on some of these threads either. I hate that people, men or women, take their bad experiences with the opposite sex and generalize them to the entire population of that gender. My feeling is that maybe if a man or woman keeps having the same negative experiences in relationship after relationship, perhaps HE/SHE is the problem.

167 posted on 12/03/2005 11:59:15 AM PST by sweetliberty (Stupidity should make you sterile.)
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To: phantomworker; Lakeshark
Funny stuff, huh?

Apparently sharky is attracted to shiny objects too......hummm.
168 posted on 12/03/2005 12:03:22 PM PST by EsmeraldaA
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To: Lakeshark; EsmeraldaA

Now what were you trying to say again?


169 posted on 12/03/2005 12:04:48 PM PST by phantomworker (We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are.<==> Perception is everything.)
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To: Lakeshark
You are sooo cute when you do the roll eyes thing. LOL!
170 posted on 12/03/2005 12:04:53 PM PST by EsmeraldaA
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To: EsmeraldaA; phantomworker
"Objects may be larger than they appear"

Tequila......

171 posted on 12/03/2005 12:10:31 PM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: EsmeraldaA; Lakeshark

When sharks roll their eyes back, do they keep rolling?


172 posted on 12/03/2005 12:10:54 PM PST by phantomworker (We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are.<==> Perception is everything.)
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To: Lakeshark

What do you mean?


173 posted on 12/03/2005 12:12:08 PM PST by phantomworker (We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are.<==> Perception is everything.)
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To: phantomworker
Heuretics-smart hn's would track back Esmy's post..........
174 posted on 12/03/2005 12:13:57 PM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Lakeshark

Ah, there, I got you! I'm pulling your leg... What's a heuretic?

http://www2.yk.psu.edu/~jmj3/elheuret.htm


175 posted on 12/03/2005 12:18:19 PM PST by phantomworker (We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are.<==> Perception is everything.)
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To: phantomworker
I knew that.

Just stalling to make you ask more about the t-shirt...........the one with the elephant on the bike, of course.....

176 posted on 12/03/2005 12:21:06 PM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Lakeshark

OK, now tell me everything you know about UAV's.


177 posted on 12/03/2005 12:26:06 PM PST by phantomworker (We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are.<==> Perception is everything.)
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To: phantomworker
Terrorists hates them......

*Gollum voice*

Hates them

178 posted on 12/03/2005 12:28:16 PM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Aracelis
It used to be that both boys and men would seek solitude, perhaps at the ol' fishin' hole, simply to think. Great character development came from these times spent alone wrestling with issues only divulged after much consideration and a final resolution were reached.

But I blame the advertising industry most, for they have created needs where none existed before. Just days ago while shopping, I noticed a line of men camped out in front of Best Buy, waiting for the next morning to arrive so they could be the first to get the new X-Box.

Their families (if they had any) needed them at home...just to be there, if for no other reason. But here they were, putting a mindnumbing game ahead of all else.

Being alone with your own thoughts forces you to face up to your own inadequecies and the universal human dissatifaction with mortality.

There are three ways people are influenced according to the school of behavioral psychology - - visual (sight), auditory (sound), kinesthetic (emotion). The kinesthetic or ‘feeling’ is also based on olfactory and tactile sense, just like Pavlov’s salivating dogs.

Visual images and sound portrayed can be used to anchor emotional and/or conditioned responses desired by those that present them, which in the case of television, is the Leftist television media, actors who create phantastical images in film, and Leftist politicians who pander to ‘symbolism over substance’ (like Rush Limbaugh always says about them).

Radio is the focus of only one of the five senses. A listener has to really tune in to the subject matter and focus on the content of the ideas - - one reason, among others, why so-called "liberal" talk radio has been and is a failure in the free market.

The print media somewhat also uses the visual aspects of that phenomenon. Interactive talk radio requires thought; television does not and relies on this as a means to influence viewers. One should also notice the emphasis on interactive talk radio, something "public radio" is careful to avoid; unlike most commercial talk radio programming.

Part of this is the promotion of "public radio." The government funded NPR and other "public radio" non-profit Leftist garbage is not making it. While I am not enamoured with some of the canned music formats of much commercial radio, I am no fan of the Leftist non-profit NPR-like stations that play third world, grass skirt, bone-in-the-nose pagan voodoo music either, with the touchy-feely, multi-cultural, anti-USA Leftist commentary of the hosts. These insipid people actually think they are clever with the sedate, monotone presentations (neuro-linguistic programming).

Observe when in public places, at your workplace or in other community activities (i.e., restaurants, retail stores, gas stations, etc.) the pervasive presence of some exposure to music or television. This is because many people are actually terrified of being alone with their own thoughts or at the prospect of it (neuro-linguistic programming).

Try an experiment, turn radios off at work, request as a customer patronizing private businesses that music or television is unplugged so you can have some personal tranquility with your family, friends, associates, etc. You will find a great resistance, even hostility to such a request. Ask yourself why, then consider what thoughts such people have they are so afraid of, if they are capable of or desire to have any of their own.

Plato’s Euthyphro is a great illustration. Socrates advances the argument to Euthyphro that, piety to the gods, who all want conflicting devotions and/or actions from humans, is impossible. Socrates exposed the pagan esoteric sophistry.

Morality and all of its associated concepts are from the belief that some higher power is defining the correctness of human behavior. Today, "morals" are a religious pagan philosophy of esoteric hobgoblins where transfiguration is from pantheons of fantasies as the medium of infinitization. Others get derision for having an unwavering Judaic belief in Yahweh or Yeshua, although their critics will evangelize insertion of phantasmagoric fetishisms into secular law.

Was Freudian psychoanalytic theory of sexual stages in psychological development more accurate than accredited? The Michael Jackson Complex is an obvious fixation on mutilation of and deviance with human anatomy in the media. It is indicative of a societal mental illness that caters to the lowest common denominator and generated with Pavlovian behavioral conditioning in popular culture.

Should we really be canonizing special societal privileges in the law based on a person's idolatrous fetishes? Perhaps civil union and homosexual monogamy advocates could conclave to enshrine their own phantasmal state religion and consecrate Michael Jackson as its first ecumenical pope!

179 posted on 12/03/2005 12:30:48 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Lakeshark

LOL! Figured as much. Doesn't fill up many pages, though.


180 posted on 12/03/2005 12:31:21 PM PST by phantomworker (We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are.<==> Perception is everything.)
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