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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.


(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


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To: DugwayDuke

"Any time you can see the sun, you can figure out where North is. Also the big dipper."

But knowing that doesn't help much in deciding which way to turn at an intersection when the roads tend not to go straight in any one direction for very long.


61 posted on 12/02/2005 11:29:02 AM PST by -YYZ-
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To: DugwayDuke
I suspect this may also have something to do with women stopping more frequently to ask directions too.

Somehow I always seem to be the "magnet" for strangers asking the "locals" for directions. Seems to happen to me at least once a month. Maybe I give off some sort of "compass" magnetism? :-)

In regards to the directions syntax thing-ie ;-), I give directions like so:

Take a right at such-and-such street, going south. Take a left going east at blankety-blank corner. Usually I throw in a couple of landmark building or business names along the way too :-).

62 posted on 12/02/2005 11:30:14 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: DugwayDuke
Any time you can see the sun, you can figure out where North is. Also the big dipper.

I think you have to observe the sun moving, don't you?

In any event, the compass positions don't always correspond to the road direction in more than a general way in my area, so even this is not a lot of help. And if you have a lot of cloudy days, this doesn't help.

SD

63 posted on 12/02/2005 11:42:34 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
Take a right at such-and-such street, going south. Take a left going east at blankety-blank corner. Usually I throw in a couple of landmark building or business names along the way too :-).

It's no fun giving directions to strangers unless you can reference a few landmarks that "used to be" there. ;-)

SD

64 posted on 12/02/2005 11:45:02 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Caipirabob
Found some articles:

Gay, Straight Men's Brain Responses Differ

Gay men read maps like women

Gay Men Respond Differently to Pheromones

Gay Men's Brains Studied

That's just the first few. I typed in "gay men's brains" to my Google toolbar and there sure are a lot of articles! :)

65 posted on 12/02/2005 11:46:18 AM PST by Is2C (http://www.persecution.com)
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To: SoothingDave

You can also through in a few references to something like:

"After a couple of miles turn right at Uncle Eb's old barn."

Seriously, I was leading a night convoy my first year in the guard. We had just moved into where we thought we would spend the night when we got a frag order moving us back to main post. The unexpected order was bad enough but my march order were something like:

"HHC turn right on the dirt road, make a left at the old fire tower, turn left at the gibson's cemetary, make a right down there where Tubby had the wreck a couple of years ago, and then bring 'em on back to post."

This made absolutely no sense to me but would have been very clear to any one who'd been training at that post for 20 years as had most guard commanders.

About that time another convoy came past going in the right direction and I ordered my driver to follow them. Good decision, we made it back to post.


67 posted on 12/02/2005 12:37:09 PM PST by DugwayDuke (Stupidity can be a self-correcting problem.)
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To: SoothingDave

"I think you have to observe the sun moving, don't you?"

Not really. As long as you know the general time and can remember that the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, you can figure out about where North is.

"In any event, the compass positions don't always correspond to the road direction in more than a general way in my area, so even this is not a lot of help."

The directions don't have to be that specific. You don't have to give directions like turn SSE, turn South is usually good enough.

"And if you have a lot of cloudy days, this doesn't help."

Unless it's pretty heavy overcast you can figure out where the sun is.


68 posted on 12/02/2005 12:41:03 PM PST by DugwayDuke (Stupidity can be a self-correcting problem.)
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To: Caipirabob
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.

If there were a conclusive study that *proved* without a doubt that gay men had female-working brains, I would completely flip my position on the subject. But I don't think that this will be the case.

There may be a very small percentage of men who do have this problem, as all humans begin "female" and chemical signals essentially transform the baby boy fetus into a male. But if it turns out that we have a large population of males with female brains, something is *very* wrong with our water supply.

69 posted on 12/02/2005 1:34:55 PM PST by Marie (Support the Troops. Slap a hippy.)
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To: Marie
There may be a very small percentage of men who do have this problem, as all humans begin "female" and chemical signals essentially transform the baby boy fetus into a male. But if it turns out that we have a large population of males with female brains, something is *very* wrong with our water supply.

My "guess" is that a true study would reveal that normal heterosexual men may have similar brain patterns as women without exhiting any symptoms of homosexuality. If it's a thought pattern, many men also have chromosome patterns that might be indicative of feminine traights (at that level.) Yet they are perfectly normal, healthy males. Perhaps with an inclination to pick up once and a while and ask for directions, but otherwise normal... ; )

70 posted on 12/02/2005 2:34:59 PM PST by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: neverdem

It all makes sense now...

Fredrick: Would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?
Igor: And you won't be angry?
Fredrick: I will *not* be angry!
Igor: Abby Someone.
Fredrick: Abby Someone. Abby Who?
Igor: Abby Normal.
Fredrick: Abby Normal.
Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name.


71 posted on 12/02/2005 2:39:33 PM PST by Redcloak (We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singin' "whiskey for my men and beer for my horses!")
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To: El Gato; JudyB1938; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; LadyDoc; jb6; tiamat; PGalt; ..
The New Clostridium difficile — What Does It Mean?

Study: Older drugs may put elderly at risk

The Claim: Green Tea Helps Prevent Cancer

Risk Reduction: Breast-Feeding May Help Keep Diabetes at Bay

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list. Anyone can post any unrelated link as they see fit.

72 posted on 12/02/2005 3:13:11 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: JudgemAll
Truth is, on long trip dates, women never help when driving (some even claim they cannot read maps, empowered in passive aggressivness but have a right to be blind and stupid), and if they do, you have to buy them flowers or something, like it were unexpected.

or not. That might be YOUR truth, but it isn't anywhere near MY experience....
73 posted on 12/02/2005 3:15:14 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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To: neverdem

I've often wondered if my paternal grandmother lived healthily to the age of 88 because of the fact she bore and breast-fed 17 children. Or if it was all the hard work. Or all the home-grown, home-fixed, non-preservative food. Or all of the above. Her children, of which my dad is the youngest at 68, have lived until way up into their 80's.


74 posted on 12/02/2005 3:20:58 PM PST by GummyIII (If you have the ability, it's your responsibility." Marine Sgt. John Place, Silver Star recipient)
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To: neverdem; Miss Behave; SeaDragon; xsmommy; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; Howlin; Slip18; Dutchgirl; ...
Oh yeah sure.

Right, uh huh.

Neverdem WOULD ping "me" (Robt has innocent, wide-eyed look of udder amazement) to a thread that says men and women are different.

Right.

(Robt practices innocent look. Just in case admin mod's are lurking. Er, looking.)
75 posted on 12/02/2005 3:39:37 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
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To: Is2C

The liberal, extremist, homosexual zealots (er, activists ) are desperate to fund ANY research (however flawed or self-serving) to "prove" their 2% of the male population are the "norm" and therest of us are "flawed" (by being conservative, or Christian, or straights, or capitalists, or white, or in the energy/military business. G. Bush, of course,, is all six.)

ANY research, no matter how it is done, is used to "prove" homosexuals are controlled by their jeans to the MSM, who immediately suck it up and print it. (Er, genes.)


76 posted on 12/02/2005 3:45:28 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
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To: neverdem
Three marriages and Lord knows how many dates, and NOW they tell me? I'm almost too far gone to make use of this new information. LOL.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "What Side is the New York Times On?"

77 posted on 12/02/2005 4:01:07 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (Do you think Fitzpatrick resembled Captain Queeg, coming apart on the witness stand?)
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To: neverdem

When I was about 13, 42 years ago, I found a magazine alongside the road that proved to me beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a difference between men and women.......


78 posted on 12/02/2005 4:03:27 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (It must suck being an Islamofascist....... they don't get Christmas presents.....)
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To: Congressman Billybob

Thanks for the link!


79 posted on 12/02/2005 4:28:43 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: nicmarlo; sweetliberty; null and void; Borax Queen; Darksheare; EsmeraldaA; Lakeshark
Now, there's proof: Men, women different.

And I was going to ping you guys, I should have known you'd already be here! ;)

80 posted on 12/02/2005 4:52:23 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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