The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently'

Rambo Tribble writes "Research out of the University of Philadelphia concludes there are major differences in the neural pathways in the brains of men and women. Men, they say, are wired more front-to-back, women more side-to-side. 'The results establish that male brains are optimized for intrahemispheric and female brains for interhemispheric communication. The developmental trajectories of males and females separate at a young age, demonstrating wide differences during adolescence and adulthood. The observations suggest that male brains are structured to facilitate connectivity between perception and coordinated action, whereas female brains are designed to facilitate communication between analytical and intuitive processing modes.' They propose this may explain why women have been found to be better multitaskers. Of course, this may also have ramifications for what skill and career proclivities each sex exhibits."

Comments

What about gays and lesbians?

[Anonymous Coward]

Would be interesting to see if their pathways follow that of the gender they were born in, or the one they have chosen.

Re:What about gays and lesbians?

[pseudofrog]

How in the world is "trans" stupid and infantile? Wouldn't adding "nny" to the end of it make it sound more juvenile?

Not all gay people find the word "fag" offensive, but enough do that polite people recommend against using it. If you're as polite as you claim to be, perhaps you should follow suit or at least not whine when others object to its use.

Propaganda at its worst

[epyT-R]

This article is a propaganda piece. Take a fact or two, wrap it up in a bunch of science fiction, and present it as an implied justification for social policy. Then end it with a catch-all that denies all culpability for being incorrect, leaving the reader with the emotional implication of the possibility. This is no different than the christian right making correlations between non-atheism and better lifestyle and using it to justify brainwashing kids with the bible in public school. It's despicable no matter who does it.

Historically, most of the philosophers, writers, inventors, creators, and capable leaders of society were men, not women. In fact, if women were truly wired better for this, men would not have been able to do anything about it. This would suggest that this study's data is incomplete, at best, and deliberately misrepresenting the truth at worst. If women were the better cross-hemisphere thinkers, then history would reflect this, as their superior intuition and abstract reasoning skills would've allowed them to dominate entire societies. Today, socialists would be fighting to get more men into STEM career paths.

Re:Equality

[x0ra]

"Equality" is a term full of resentment used by the weak (in Nietzsche's philosophy sense of the term) to try to justify regulatory capture...

Re: Social division of labor

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

That's why bitches can't think straight.