Posted on 04/11/2007 5:02:05 AM PDT by shrinkermd
...It is a misconception that the differences between men’s and women’s brains are small or erratic or found only in a few extreme cases, Dr. Larry Cahill of the University of California, Irvine, wrote last year in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Widespread regions of the cortex, the brain’s outer layer that performs much of its higher-level processing, are thicker in women. The hippocampus, where initial memories are formed, occupies a larger fraction of the female brain.
Techniques for imaging the brain have begun to show that men and women use their brains in different ways even when doing the same thing...
It is no surprise that the male and female versions of the human brain operate in distinct patterns...The male brain is sexually oriented toward women as an object of desire. The most direct evidence comes from a handful of cases, some of them circumcision accidents, in which boy babies have lost their penises and been reared as female. Despite every social inducement to the opposite, they grow up desiring women as partners, not men...
...Presumably the masculinization of the brain shapes some neural circuit that makes women desirable. If so, this circuitry is wired differently in gay men. In experiments in which subjects are shown photographs of desirable men or women, straight men are aroused by women, gay men by men.
Such experiments do not show the same clear divide with women. Whether women describe themselves as straight or lesbian, “Their sexual arousal seems to be relatively indiscriminate — they get aroused by both male and female images,” Dr. Bailey said. “I’m not even sure females have a sexual orientation. But they have sexual preferences. Women are very picky, and most choose to have sex with men.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I might have added that a man ought never send a woman flowers for a reason that is not immediately evident to her (e.g. - birthday, anniversary, holiday). Otherwise, she’ll think you’re making up for something she doesn’t yet know you did, but boy is she ever going to find out, and when she does....
... this could be a long conversation ... but it's not for such a public place, and certainly not via any recordable medium.
But it’s not just that they’re pretty. It’s that they’re real men, too. They are fighting for home and family; they’re willing to die for what’s right. And they don’t sound gay or metro. They yell and roar and talk in low masculine voices. They love their wives. They don’t get manicures or agonize about upholstery material, like one guy I was talking to at the office today who declared himself “so frazzled” because he couldn’t get exactly the right sort of yardgoods to cover his favorite pair of wing chairs. Oh, please. Go fix the truck or reroof the house or something and stop whining about stuff I can deal with.
That's pretty gay. He belongs where I live, up here in Sissy Nation.
I was furious when I heard about The 300. It was because I thought Hollywood was going to wreck one of my favorite battles. It's nice to know they got it right.
MOLON LABE!!!
Arioch7
As one male who has been unrepentantly doing all the ‘guy-things’ forever and sometimes being penalized for it, I just had to laugh and tell you that it is nice to know there are indeed some women out there that can appreciate us for who we are. Thanks indeed, luv! *smile*
Years ago, I had a customer who was "devastated" be cause the pattern of the fabric for his roman shades could be seen at night through the lining. He said it was the neighborhood eyesore - so bad that they couldn't use that room at night. He was a high-ranking Army officer.
No wonder this country is going to hell. Did Leonidas get all upset and sulky because his fabric didn’t work for him? History does not disclose that, but I doubt it.
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