Men's Brains, Women's Brains

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JRcat — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:00:27 GMT

The guy's funny, but I'm sure everyone can agree that there is a lot more to it. The world is shades of gray with a little black and white sprinkled in. In college I had a business class that focused on the psychology of the workplace and one of the main parts of the class was the subject of introversion and extroversion and how to work with different types of people. This is where the real difference in the brain is and not men vs. women. I'm an introverted guy and don't think like a lot of other guys. I'm not necessarily shy, but just like to do my own thing.

Marti Olsen Laney has a good series of books if anyone cares to look more at how the brain works for different people.

Like I said, he was humorous and a good entertainer, but I would sure hope nobody takes anything he says seriously. I may have to find him and take him to the library and show him there's more out there than those goofy Men are from Mars books!

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success4hannah — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:25:32 GMT

It reminds me of this joke:

A man's brain is divided into 2 parts:

Da RIGHT

and

Da LEFT !

In da RIGHT nothing is left

and

In da LEFT nothing is right!

NOW do you understand why they struggle!!

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DorothyThompson — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:20:02 GMT

If this is funny it's only because it reinforces long held stereotypes of women that we are supposed to keep laughing at. And we're bad sports if we don't join in with the yucks. Women operate on emotion not critical thinking, Dr. Mercola? This belongs on a site that pays homage, even if under the radar or through 'humor', to mysogyny.

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energymaster — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:40:17 GMT

Men need the nothing box because the archetypical male energy is pure consciousness while the female is pure Light. The reason men (like myself) work on projects so much trying to get 'done with it all' is that then, when all finished, they will be able to rest in pure consciousness, with nothing to do, only to rest - to be - in pure beingness.

Of course, we know that the to-do list is endless.

That's why meditation is so necessary and let's us be in the nothing box in our minds. This is why Buddhism and similar energy streams were started by men.

Andy

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CEM — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:19:26 GMT

Women go to the doctor more than men because they're more affected by all the electrosmog from wireless technology. Male doctors are making a mistake by blaming it on her hormones or that all-encompassing 'stress'. Google the Bioinitiative Report.

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TWS500 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:53:05 GMT

Most of my boxes are in a very large box marked "SEX".....

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TWS500 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:51:17 GMT

I've long known that men's brains are like waffles.....with squares and boxes......and women's brains are like a plate of spaghetti..... That's pretty much what the guy said but I don't agree with some of his other comedic assertions.....

A man.....Terry.

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RichJedi — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:35:53 GMT

Hi Rachael,

Sure, many men don't like to go to the doctor, sometimes because of laziness, but for those I know, mostly it's because we know that not every little thing needs to be checked. Women often go for every little pain and most of the time such things are either nothing, or cause by diet, stress, etc. Many times doctors don't go because men know more so that as Mercola points out what a scam most doctors are. They just want to get you on more drugs and surgery, so the more you go, the greater their chances of conning someone into something they don't need.

Well if I've only dated/married or been around impatient women and that number is in the thousands through many big NY companies I've worked with and chatted online and far more through secondary means, then that means that the majority are in fact that way, at least in this NYC area.

I'm well aware of that other places in the US and other countries, people are different as the local lifestyle has a lot to do with it too, hence the women and their shoe obsession for example. But I also know that it surely exists outside the US to...Amelda Marcos from the Phil comes to mind, lol.

Stubborn men who won't go to the doctor for any reason, well that's just ego and pride. Not wanting to wait in line is laziness born of the society as a whole. There are exceptions to any general rule and both men and women have cross traits, but I speak of a general 80/20 rule in regards to various male and female traits that fit in with each gender accordingly.

I'm a single father raising my daughter on my own and taking care of my mother too, but I still find time to relax and do nothing, meditate and workout, even if only a few minutes here and there. Though you may not find time to shoe shop, I'm not speaking of what you actually do, but as the comedian talked about, the general trait that women are basically feet obsessed whether it's painting toe nails, having 300 pairs of shoes.

Take care

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jonallen — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:41:23 GMT

The amazing thing about this skit is- it is based on real neuroscience.

It has been observed that the increased compartmentalization of the male brain occurs in the womb, apparently as a result of high levels of testosterone in the womb. It has even been observed that women who had higher than normal testosterone surrounding them in the womb have more compartmentalized brains, and are more adept at the extreme level of focused thought that normally is the specialty of men.

This most commonly occurs with girls who were born with a male twin (which stimulates the mother's womb to push up the testosterone). Even if the male twin doesn't survive, the effect has made its mark on the girl's brain.

This doesn't make one brain superior to another. "He has a one-track mind" is as much a handicap as the ability to focus unwaveringly on a specific process is an advantage.

Male size and vulnerability are the principle causes of male domination. Hopefully, modern societies will eventually overcome these physiological and psychological differences to end male and/or female domination due to fundamental differences. The first step is to recognize, accomodate and appreciate these differences for everyone's benefit. Peace.

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drdalev — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:25:38 GMT

He forgot to mention that sometimes we just walk around the spaces between the boxes wondering which one we want to open next. Then if we can't decide that's when we go to the nothing box or we go to the one marked X-BOX and play games for hours.

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Texas Truth Teller — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:23:28 GMT

How sad that we need "comical clowns" to somehow explain the differences between men and women. And why? Because we refuse to simply look to OUR CREATOR instead! And then we wonder WHY this world is so messed up, and WHY there is so much confusion between the sexes over proper roles of male and female. Our nation is in SAD shape! The home, which is the building block of society, is being destroyed. And at the root of it all is SIN! Ever since Eden, where this whole mess began, we have struggled to figure out the HOW and WHY of male-female relationships. And until we are willing to humble ourselves and acknowledge our sinfulness, and our need of Jesus Christ to save us from our sins, things will only continue to get WORSE AND WORSE! And that certainly isn't funny!

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wordbird — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:49:43 GMT

David, you looked in the NOTHING box. Try one of the other ones

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connie_bee2000 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:04:55 GMT

Well, in my own experience...... I (female) seem to have a man's brain, and my husband seemed to have a woman's brain. I (eroneously) thought that we could have truly well balanced children. After 33 years, we just gave up the ghost. On the plus side...we have two (out of three) well balanced sons.

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RichJedi — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:31:06 GMT

Men only SEEM to do nothing because women themselves can't stand NOT doing something. Hence their favorite line "I'm bored" or "Girls just wanna have fun". Women can't stand being bored and to them there is nothing worse in the universe.

They need to learn to meditate, turn down the brain voltage big time and keep their mind occupied with more productive things..and no, buying a new pair of shoes is NOT productive!!.... grrrrrr.. lol.

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kingabarry — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:13:30 GMT

If women's brains are apparently wired or connected, the opposite would be dis-connection, or lack of empathy, or as the comedian puts it, boxes.

Yes, we've had other comedians say, "I feel your pain" and his successor apparently not feeling any and inflicting pain on thousands.

Then we've had the ultimate empath who wanted to feel the pain of humanity, so they nailed him to the cross. Not surprisingly, in his last hours he was surrounded by a lot of women, who connected with his experience, no doubt because they were more attuned to pain through their biological makeup.It is said that if men experienced the pain of childbirth there would be no humanity. It would be interesting to have studies which might show the rewiring of the brain following the experience of pain. This might be the basis for taking on the "via dolorosa" or the way of suffering as the only path to love and enlightenment. Might enlightenment mean connecting the left and the right brain hemisphere and the male and female counterpoints of our persona?