shortbuss
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I've taken a Neuropych course, and have a general knowledge of psychology from being raised by a parent that majored in the subject. I remember my neuropsych course specifically defined what modern science considers some actual, proven differences in male and female cognition. I would recommend maybe pick up reading about this subject.
I think the differences in men and women are made exaggerated by our culture, and the sort of 'echo chamber' as the 24-hour news cycle likes to call it, that comes from that culture constantly being thrown in our face very emphatically every time humans send messages and information to each other electronically (by tv and movies, internet, advertisements even...). We are more bombarded by the opinions of our culture/s than ever before. Humans also like to simplify things by thinking categorically in how they understand the world. It's easier to conclude something like 'that person is a man, and men are all pricks' than 'he is an individual, and has unique qualities that may or may not fall into the male gender role.' People like to box you into a definition and label you as if for easier storage in their sometimes frankly narrow minds' eye. That is why I think of things in general terms instead of absolutes, because I see it as sloppy, careless thinking.
From what I have read male and female minds are essentially comparable with small, truly minor differences that both offer impressive implications for each gender's cognitive aptitudes IN GENERAL.
I do remember women were supposedly noted as having GENERALLY better language skills, and men were said to have better spacial thinking skills...I'm not even sure if I'm remembering that right though, so don't take my word.
Oh, and as far as the traditional I.Q. score differences, here is the skinny on that data. Men tend to have more extreme scores on a bell curve. Men are more likely to be either very smart, or very slow. Women's scores have less extreme variations though. We are spread more evenly, being perhaps more likely to be a bit slower than average, or a bit smarter than average. When you average these two categories, men and women, and compare the two results, you find that this makes our gender respective I.Q. averages remarkably similar.
The 'Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus' ideology really aggravates me. It's a gross oversimplification that people believes because it has a moderately prosaic ring to it. It'd be like believing an advertisement just because it had a jingle you found catchy. Not only is a stupid, lazy conclusion, but IMO it is also a harmful one (although sometimes just deeply annoying). I mean, who HASN'T been annoyed, or even put at a real disadvantage at some point when something was assumed or expected of them because of their race, gender or even class status? It seems like a manipulative ideology crafted by our oligarchy, or whatever it is, cynically pitting the poor against one another so they won't notice the rich robbing them blind. Men and women are far more alike than the narrators of our cultural dialogues seldom admit. Maybe it's just a conspiracy theory, but it's no theory that the Divide & Conquer strategy HAS been used in the past by ancient conquerors and powerful elite. Whatever it is I'm not buying into it, and neither should you.
I think the differences in men and women are made exaggerated by our culture, and the sort of 'echo chamber' as the 24-hour news cycle likes to call it, that comes from that culture constantly being thrown in our face very emphatically every time humans send messages and information to each other electronically (by tv and movies, internet, advertisements even...). We are more bombarded by the opinions of our culture/s than ever before. Humans also like to simplify things by thinking categorically in how they understand the world. It's easier to conclude something like 'that person is a man, and men are all pricks' than 'he is an individual, and has unique qualities that may or may not fall into the male gender role.' People like to box you into a definition and label you as if for easier storage in their sometimes frankly narrow minds' eye. That is why I think of things in general terms instead of absolutes, because I see it as sloppy, careless thinking.
From what I have read male and female minds are essentially comparable with small, truly minor differences that both offer impressive implications for each gender's cognitive aptitudes IN GENERAL.
I do remember women were supposedly noted as having GENERALLY better language skills, and men were said to have better spacial thinking skills...I'm not even sure if I'm remembering that right though, so don't take my word.
Oh, and as far as the traditional I.Q. score differences, here is the skinny on that data. Men tend to have more extreme scores on a bell curve. Men are more likely to be either very smart, or very slow. Women's scores have less extreme variations though. We are spread more evenly, being perhaps more likely to be a bit slower than average, or a bit smarter than average. When you average these two categories, men and women, and compare the two results, you find that this makes our gender respective I.Q. averages remarkably similar.
The 'Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus' ideology really aggravates me. It's a gross oversimplification that people believes because it has a moderately prosaic ring to it. It'd be like believing an advertisement just because it had a jingle you found catchy. Not only is a stupid, lazy conclusion, but IMO it is also a harmful one (although sometimes just deeply annoying). I mean, who HASN'T been annoyed, or even put at a real disadvantage at some point when something was assumed or expected of them because of their race, gender or even class status? It seems like a manipulative ideology crafted by our oligarchy, or whatever it is, cynically pitting the poor against one another so they won't notice the rich robbing them blind. Men and women are far more alike than the narrators of our cultural dialogues seldom admit. Maybe it's just a conspiracy theory, but it's no theory that the Divide & Conquer strategy HAS been used in the past by ancient conquerors and powerful elite. Whatever it is I'm not buying into it, and neither should you.
