Do both sex's think the same?

Sometimes it helps to have an apple and an orange sitting on a table in front of you to compare.
Or would it help to have a naked man and woman sitting on a table in front of you to compare. Certainly would be educational, but a lot of the differences are in the mind. Maybe compare brain wave activity and 3-D thermal images of male and female brains?

 

LOL YOU would think that..

 

all i'm saying is since a hypothesis in a research study considered emotional differences between the sexes

and thereafter i redistributed the results

to change the parameters would render the study useless.

what i am offering is what is believed to be proven

though empirically

what you are suggesting at the moment is opinion.

i've little to argue with what you say

but in the case of what i said

it made no sense to compare apples and oranges.

so maybe you should conduct a study

then cross examination of results could be quite interesting.

 

Clinical psychology has had hard data on the issue of right brain/left brain functions, surgically separated hemispheres vs. joined hemispheres of various diameter connections.
If you have access to Index Medicus it should come up in keyword searches.

 

Women are more emotional (as a result of more oestrogen in their bodies), but not less logical.

 

No!

It's MEN who expect themselves to be stronger emotionally and for women to be weak. Every woman should know it's the other way round. Men are afraid to express any emotion other than anger or lust, so they are emotionally weak, and less in touch with other people's feelings. Women are the stronger gender.

Sorry, but comments like that instantly get me onto my feminist soapbox and bring out one of my rants about men.

 

Typical feminine intuition is not irrational just because it is not constructed in a linear (typical male) fashion. Intuition is a summary, an amalgum of past experiences. It is not inherently emotional, but may be influenced by emotion. Neither is male pattern thought inferior because it is linear. Male and female minds meet, compare notes and our species is better for having a look at a situation through each mode of reasoning.

I have met both men and women whose emotions were so out of control that it short-circuited logical thought entirely. Likewise I have met men and women that repressed emotions to the degree that they harmed themselves.

But women should not assume that men are feeling what women do, but merely repressing it. Sometimes what we feel is quite different. I have been calm in the face of trouble that brought a girlfriend to tears. I know that in such cases it is not a matter of hiding my emotions.

 

I wasn't saying that men are the stronger sex. I am a single mom with a deadbeat ex husband who fathered my child. I am the mother AND father. I believe women are the stronger sex emotionally. Most are more emotionally in touch with themselves and others than a man could ever hope to be. (NOT a blanket statement for all men and all women...every person is different) HOWEVER, society tends to categorize men as the strong and women as the weak. Sociologically speaking, [this post was asking for scientific answers, not emotional ones (and believe me, I can go on rants about straight men for hours)] showing emotions are viewed as weakness.

 

DISCLAIMER: the following is based on my personal experience and is by no means scientific.

Personally I don't see the "men are more logical and less emotional" argument.

Men are emotional. They are just trained by society from a very early age not to show their emotions.

Men also can express different emotions than women. I'm sure we've all seen more women than men cry, but sadness is not the only emotion. Men, from my personal experience, have an easier time expressing anger.

And there is nothing logical about an angry man riding a wave of testosterone.

 

Glad we agree, Marvelous Missy, but the idea that showing emotions is a sign of weakness is a direct result of our patriarchal society.

Scientifically, gender differences are a mixture of nature and nurture. Boys are born with a little more testosterone in their brains than girls, which affects how they behave, and this is further encouraged by social customs about what is appropriate for males and females. Then at puberty the increase in production of testosterone in boys and oestrogen in girls moves the sexes further apart, and again these resulting differences, being seen as normal, are further encouraged by social pressure.

But I have to bring in my feminist views again: the patriarchy creates a lopsided effect. Women and girls are allowed to be tomboyish, but men and girls are humiliated if they act feminine, because women are viewed as inferior to men.

And that's a political view, not an emotional one.

 

If the anger is directed toward a wild animal attacking the tribe, maybe it is useful anger. If the anger is turned inward toward loved ones, it is not useful.
We can learn to embrace our emotions and we can learn to redirect them toward useful ends.

Logic sometimes gets in the way of doing the right thing.
Sometimes logic is essential to doing the right thing.

 

i love you.

 

hello god... are you listening? :xmasnut: