A GEM OF AN EXCHANGE OF COMMENTS I FOUND RE: LIVE SCIENCE ARTICLE ON WOMEN'S BRAINS

"There is no such thing as a unisex brain," says neuropsychiatrist Dr. Louann Brizendine of the University of California in San Francisco and author of "The Female Brain."

Despite the trumpets of women's lib, science suggests sex differences are innate. Women, apparently, are not curvy versions of men sporting high-heeled shoes.

Here are 10 things every woman-loving man should know.

-- Robin


Wow--there's always an excuse for women to behave irrationally and nastily, isn't there? My wife torments my daughter and I for two weeks out of every month, and of course it's "PMS".

I've been alive awhile now. I've had more than my share of days when I have had hardly any sleep (or literally no sleep at all). I've been stressed to the extreme over money, health, or anything else that happens in life. I've had hormonal surges of my own. But what I haven't done is go around treating people like garbage as a matter of habit, because I can fall back on some bullshit "it's my body" excuse.


Wow i find this offensive. Are we living in 1950? So women's "hormones" prevent them from any sort of rational or effective functioning, including child-bearing by themselves in the early years because they can't handle stress? How do you explain women doing more housework than men -- even when they work just as long at work? AND doing the child-care work? If they can't handle stress and are so irrational?

Look, some of this is true for me. I prefer to "befriend" people rather than compete with them. But I can also hold my own in an argument. Most women can't because they have been taught not to argue -- they lack the skills because they are taught to be nice all the time instead of competent or smart or right.
You will probably find brain differences in people who were taught sports and people who were taught to read quietly by themselves too. That doesn't mean the differences are in-born.

I'm sure pregnancy will be hormonally difficult -- something men never have to deal with.

But come on, you take statistical generalizations like these, make a really big deal out of them, let people pick the negatives like "heartsick" here who skips the "women care for other people and try to make friends all the time" bit and jumps on the "cant' handle stress" bit to explain his unpleasant wife, and you might as well remove women from all jobs and stick them in the home, or better yet, in the basement where their hormonal manipulative ways can't affect their children in a negative way, because clearly, weak, hormonal, stress-intolerant women aren't fit for the uber-stressful job of raising children. ETepicyon wrote:

I agree. I dislike this article because it gives other people the excuse to say "Oh, you're a women, you're like this" without even knowing me. It might be the stereotype, but it's not like there isn't an incredible amount of variation between the sexes. I didn't relate to much of anything in the article. Personality wise, I'm just like my dad and honestly, I enjoy conflict - just not the emotional drama crap - and I work best under constant stress. This article is a bit pointless, and it doesn't really promote the right stuff.