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Male Brains Aren't Designed To Listen to Female Voices
Stylecaster ^ | 06/07/11 | Andrea Uku

Posted on 07/13/2011 9:43:33 AM PDT by freespirited

If you've ever spent time telling a guy a story or asking him a question, only to get a blank stare in response, then you know that there's definitely truth to this claim that guys weren't designed to hear us speak. I had a similar experience at brunch this weekend when I was going on and on to a male friend about something I can't even remember anymore. When I got to the end of my rant and finally asked him if he agreed with me on the topic at hand, his answer was, "sorry, I really wasn't listening to a word you said."

Even though I was incredibly frustrated with him, he did bring up a good point, asking, "would you rather I lie and say I heard you?" This little exchange, as insignificant as it was, did make me wonder exactly what it is that makes it so easy for men to tune us out.

As it turns out, a study published in the journal NeuroImage sought to answer the very same question. Researchers found that there are major differences in the way male and female brains process voice sounds. Different brain regions are activated in men, depending on whether they're hearing a male or female voice.

Apparently, the vibration and number of sound waves in our voice makes it harder for men to decipher what we're saying. When it comes to processing a woman's voice, they use the more complex auditory part of the brain that processes music, not human voices. But the guys in the study could easily hear and understand other men’s voices as speech because that uses a simpler brain mechanism at the back of the brain.

So, next time you want to get angry and yell at a guy for "not listening," cut him a little slack – his brain just wasn't made to hear you. My suggestion would be to speak slowly and get to your point fast.


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KEYWORDS: femalevoice; malebrain; validationseeking; yappyappyapp
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To: jagusafr

Fella, been there, done THAT! Ha ha....she gets really pissed when I tell her “you told me that yesterday - twice” or “you told me 45 minutes ago” or “you’re preaching to the choir, etc......”


201 posted on 07/13/2011 12:06:35 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: 95B30
I could not hear in the decibel range that she and most females spoke in.

One of our nieces tells this story about an interesting trip to treat an elder gentlemen who needed a ride to the hospital in the ambulance.

When they arrived at the home, the lady invited them in, then went over to her husband, leaned over and very loudly shouted "The paramedics are here to transport you to the hospital"

She then commented to the ambulance crew that her husband was very hard of hearing, and that they would need to raise their voices when speaking to him

When they got out to the ambulance, our niece started to bend over and holler out some information to the patient, but he quickly commented with a grin "Honey, I hear perfectly, but please just don't tell my wife!"

202 posted on 07/13/2011 12:09:50 PM PDT by Dustoff45 (A good woman brings out the best in a good man! A better woman might be just what this nation needs)
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To: Chickensoup

INDEED.

A pastor/MD and his wife mentioned that in a sermon once.

The wife casually wondered if a pool would fit in their narrow side yard on a hill in La Mesa overlooking San Diego.

He began to immediately calculate construction costs, insurance etc. etc.

She was merely in idle contemplation of the possibilities.

He experienced it as a stressful question.

I can handle either mode.

However, masses of words about not much of much importance have increasingly become an extremely low priority to an annoyance, the older I’ve gotten. LOL.


203 posted on 07/13/2011 12:11:07 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Locomotive Breath

There are what I call “dial tone women”. They want to make sure the communication channel is open but they have no information to impart. Listening to them is like listening to a dial tone.


ABSOLUTELY INDEED.

And some women are insecure enough to have to check the dial tone about every 3rd minute! Sigh.


204 posted on 07/13/2011 12:12:22 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: GOPJ

Thanks for your kind reply.


205 posted on 07/13/2011 12:13:01 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: freespirited

This is why G-d invented breasts.


206 posted on 07/13/2011 12:14:16 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: GOPJ; Quix

so how will this play out in the upcoming elections? Michelle Bachman or Sarah Palin......they do have better voices than sHrillary.


207 posted on 07/13/2011 12:15:04 PM PDT by tioga
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To: Jewbacca
This is why G-d invented breasts.

And why man invented beer.

208 posted on 07/13/2011 12:17:00 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: tioga

I don’t have TV.

Which one has the stronger, assertive, CAN-DO voice without sounding bitchy or overly aggressive?


209 posted on 07/13/2011 12:19:01 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: freespirited

“My suggestion would be to speak slowly and get to your point fast.”

Ladies, you don’t have to speak slowly... but if you don’t immediately get to the point and dither around, we guys ARE going to ignore you. We ignore other men that do the same thing. Deal with it.


210 posted on 07/13/2011 12:19:52 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: freespirited

I gotta go with the guys on this one.


211 posted on 07/13/2011 12:20:21 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Locomotive Breath
Because men respond well to a woman shouting “Pull up, pull up, pull up!”

Best answer yet!

212 posted on 07/13/2011 12:20:37 PM PDT by rhombus
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To: Quix
< truth > What I hate the most is when "lovey honey" calls me at work.....< /truth >
213 posted on 07/13/2011 12:20:41 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Just mythoughts; Quix
God must have been laughing for eons at the mystifying dance He set up between men and women.

What was the 'condition' the Adam was initially created???? Something was taken from him to make the woman.

I got a cartoon in my email not long ago and it was captioned:

God took a rib out of man and created a microphone.

214 posted on 07/13/2011 12:20:41 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (zero hates Texas and we hate him back. He ain't my president either.)
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To: freespirited
get to your point fast.

She nailed it! By the second or third sentence I'm already thinking about something else...especially when it takes my wife five minutes to get to the point.

215 posted on 07/13/2011 12:21:55 PM PDT by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: Mr. K

LOL! Nailed it!

(BTDT^3)


216 posted on 07/13/2011 12:23:43 PM PDT by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: central_va

My father-in-law loves being deaf and drinking Scotch.

Says it was the best thing that ever happened to his marriage. He can just nod and sit there.


217 posted on 07/13/2011 12:31:44 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Arrowhead1952
I got a cartoon in my email not long ago and it was captioned: God took a rib out of man and created a microphone.

Yep the mouth the man refuses to hear because it is NOT in his own interest.... The majority of my life has been MALE preachers claiming that Adam (the first recorded liberal) blaming GOD and 'that' woman was the WORD... It was not until I read the words without the help of some male that I read them for what and who was doing the 'itching'.... I have taken to 'heart' that this man Adam set the stage for what would be to come. 'That woman', seemingly has served the man for eons.... but in that 'case' it was the itch that Adam did 'listen' to the woman, in spite of what he was told directly by the Heavenly Father.... Man has through the ages demonstrated he can be the smallest of minds literally and/or figuratively created.

It has been my own personal experience that a man can out gossip and itch and whine any female I have ever met.

218 posted on 07/13/2011 12:32:52 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: jagusafr

While on deployment in 04-05, my unit had this very b—chy female XO who would rant about everything, even cups in the break tent not being in height order or too much trash in the c-wire. Well she started chewing myself and another officer out over some nonsense I cannot remember. This guy, who was an Marine FO in VIETNAM, and in 2004, a W4 and a real old-timer, looked at me after the XO was done and said, “What was she yelling about, I sort of tuned her out?”. I replied with, “I have no idea; I was tuning her out too. But I guess if it’s important, she’ll yell at us again.”


219 posted on 07/13/2011 12:34:46 PM PDT by jjm2111
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To: miele man

Does yours have the ‘sound of blackboards mating’ British chick voice?

That one just about caused hubby to drive the Yukon right into a bridge abutment, once.

She drove him literally crazy.

[and all I could do was laugh]


220 posted on 07/13/2011 12:37:27 PM PDT by Salamander (You trap. You kill. You eat. That's what a good spider does.)
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