[RogerFGay]

SHOCKING!

[FastCoyote]

I guess this is why punching the girls at work in the arm and asking them to wrestle doesn't seem to illicit the desired response.

[Ken H]

All you have to do is unzip their genes and you'll see that they're different.

[weikel]

Ping

[R. Scott]

How unPC!
Does this mean that political correctness will no longer rule social research?

[RogerFGay]

We know, for instance, from observations of both humans and nonhumans that males are more aggressive than females

It reminds me of the scene from the movie Species. The researcher explained; "We decided to create a female because we believed she would be more docile than a male."

RESPONSE: "Gee doc, you don't get out much do you?"

[RogerFGay]

We also know that in general males are better at a variety of spatial or navigational tasks.

Take that Roseanne! Real men don't need to stop and ask for directions.

[Scully]

Elizabeth Hampson of the University of Western Ontario showed that women's performances at certain tasks changed throughout the menstrual cycle as levels of estrogen varied. High levels of the hormone were associated not only with relatively depressed spatial ability but also with enhanced speech and manual skill tasks.

All kidding aside, this is an important finding. Females may be compelled biochemically to seek verbal communication with their mates during early to mid-cycle when estrogen levels are highest.

[sinclair]

Viva la difference!

[FairWitness]

I listened to part of a discussion on C-Span lately where the subject was the harm being done to men's sports, particularly the "minor" ones like wrestling, by the Title IX insistence on proportional representation. One of the more interesting things I heard was an audience member (in response to some argument that women and men do not differ) talk about how neuroanatomy has now shown clear difference in male and female brain architecture. He said that it is now known that female brain cells are actually different in size and establish more connections to other brain cells compared to the male (don't know if this is supposed to apply to the whole brain or only some specific parts). He also said that it is now possible on scans to distinguish male and female babies in utero by their brains (as well as by the more traditional marker)!

[William Terrell]

It's interesting that the problem solving tasks in the two columns for men show perceptions and skills that are beneficial for building civilization, and those for women show perceptions and skills for using civilization.

[AGreatPer]

"DOREEN KIMURA studies the neural and hormonal basis of human intellectual functions. She is visiting professor in psychology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada."

she's a guy (fellow)?

I know, I know. It just looked funny.

BTW, good catch. Thanks for posting.

[aruanan]

Evidence accumulated more recently, however, suggests that the effects of sex hormones on brain organization occur so early in life that from the start the environment is acting on differently wired brains in boys and girls.

"More recently." Ha ha ha. I was reading about this for well over a decade. Oh, I see, it's in Scientific American. The popular media are always way behind the curve.

The whole thing calls to mind, though, that people over a hundred years ago were referring to men and women as different species. Certainly the differences between genders of the same species are far greater than many of the differences between closely-related species.

[3catsanadog]

This will set the feminazi movement back decades. Ha Ha.

[boris]

Link does not work; images invisible. Good job. Sure you're a male?

--Boris

[gitmo]

OK. So how do you account for blondes?