Men vs Women

Experts vs. Managers

Why are women not more important in history as geniuses? The usual assumption is that women have not had access to education and have not had the opportunity to excel. However, there is a real difference in brain design -- women tend to have more balanced brains, whereas men tend to have more specialized brains. To understand this section, it is important to have read the previous section on "balanced" brains.

A very important observation of stroke and injury victims is that "men who have had unilateral brain damage [left or right side only] tend to show more profound deficits in functions associated with the side of lesion than do women with similar lesions." (Lezak 1983).

Translated this means that women tend to have less-specialized brains, with talents distributed over larger areas. For example, men tend to have language concentrated in the left brain, and may lose all language ability with a damaged left brain, whereas women have language talents spread over both hemispheres.

These observations are based on statistical averages of many people. Every person is different. Many women have very specialized brains and become experts, and many men have balanced brains and become good managers. However, the trend is strong.

Men with more specialized brains
Advantages : More likely to become geniuses and experts
Disadvantages : More likely to become idiot savants, absent-minded, narrow minded, and be poor managers
Careers where this tendency is a real advantage : Musician, Craftsmen, Specialist in any field, and any career using spatial sense

Women with more balanced brains
Advantages : Better at managing, generalist thinking, and "intuitive" thinking (ie. aware of many aspects of a situation).
Disadvantages : Less likely to excel as experts
Careers where this tendency is a real advantage : CEO, Manager, Supervisor, Mother, Nurse, Secretary, Lawyer, Cook, Teacher


Examples are easy to find.

-Hospitals are really run by nurses. Specialist male doctors ask the generalist nurses what is happening with their patients.
-Secretaries are exceedingly important at keeping most organizations operating smoothly, thereby making the CEO and specialists successful.
-Most men do not seem very adept at being house-husbands, which involves keeping track of many things happening at the same time.

Why do women have a reputation for talking a lot?

Women have a reputation for talking because, on the average, more of the female brain is devoted to language. Of course, some men also have strong language areas, and may become teachers, lawyers, and writers, but the tendency is for women to have stronger language development.

In contrast, the right brains of men tend to be more like their animal ancestors, with skills useful for hunting and warfare ( talents needed today for driving their SUV through commuter traffic).

Often when couples get together, the women use their strong language and generalist skills to talk in the kitchen, prepare food, and manage the party, while the pack of men in the living room grunt and scream right-brain animal sounds as they watch someone make a goal on TV sports.

"Feminine Intuition"

Imagine a male in a specialist job, such as flying an airplane. This is a very right-brained job using lots of animal spatial-sense. A pilot needs many visual-spatial talents

Now imagine a more generalist woman as a pilot. She might not be as good as the male pilot at purely flying*, but her more generalist brain will more likely be thinking of of non-flying things as well, such as the care of the passengers. She may have noticed the behavior of some passenger who acted suspiciously, which makes her decide to radio for advice before some incident actually happens. She then gets praise for her "women's intution." Intuition, as a form of generalist thinking and awareness, can be very real and very useful. But do men listen?

. (*Amelia Earhart has been an icon of women pilots, but a biography I read described her as not a very good pilot or navigator, but overly promoted by her husband-manager so that she flew in unsafe situations. In any case, I believe that on the average, men tend to have stronger right-brain, animal-type, spatial talents then women, and tend to do better in jobs needing those talents.)

Myth: Women are more "right-brained"

A commonly voiced myth is that "women are more right-brained than men." This is wrong. The evidence from strokes and injuries shows that women have more language development over more areas of the brain, as described above. Because language is a left-brain specialty, women are actually more "left-brained" than men, on the average.

For example, the right-brain spatial area is usually devoted to the visual-spatial sense, which is important to animals for finding food, and for humans operating equipment, designing bridges, fixing car engines, and building houses. In contrast, with humans the left-brain spatial area has evolved to work with the sound patterns of language grammar. For women's brains to use more of the right-brain spatial area for grammar-spatial, they will tend to have less brain area devoted to visual-spatial. On average, men tend to be better drivers and women+ better talkers. Both are equally valuable.

Part of the right-brain myth includes the myth that "left-brained men are more militaristic" and thus cause wars. Yes, men cause almost all wars and military operations, but it is because men are so right-brained. War is mostly a right-brain operation -- flying airplanes, planning attack strategies, aiming guns, designing weapons, deciding who is the enemy, establishing territory, sneaking around the woods, and so on. Left-brained people talk about wars, write press releases, and analyze the logic of why people do crazy things like war.

Myth: Women are more creative

Another anti-male myth, related to the right-brain myth above, is that "women are more creative" than men. Creativity works on both sides of the brain, and has no relation to sexual differences. In fact, based on the idea that women have more language development at the expense of visual spatial sense, as described above, then, on the average, women are probably more creative in language topics, and men are more creative in visual topics such as art, architecture and engineering. See the creativity page for more information.

Have you ever heard a seemingly normal woman saying something like, "I don't know what I do to turn men off. I seem to push them away. Maybe I'm too demanding, or not demanding enough. Men are so confusing."

And it could be that very same day that you hear a seemingly normal man, unrelated to the first woman, complaining: ?I don't get women. Women are so hard to understand."

When men and women get together, there are, in effect, two worlds?his and hers. They have different values, priorities, and habits. They play by different rules.

Scientists have come to accept that a few fundamental differences between men and women are biological. It turns out that men's and women's brains, for example, are not only different, but the way we use them differs too. Women have larger connections and more frequent interaction between their brain's left and right hemispheres. This accounts for women's ability to have better verbal skills and intuition. Men, on the other hand, have greater brain hemisphere separation, which explains their skills for abstract reasoning and visual-spatial intelligence. Poet Robert Bly describes women's brains as a "superhighway" of connection while men?s brains connections are compared to a "little crookedy country road.'"

Different habits of men and women are explained by different roles in the process of evolution. Although life conditions have changed, both men and women tend to follow their biological programs.

Men tend to retain a firm sense of direction ? they need to trace the game, catch it, and find the way home, while women have a better peripheral vision that helps them to see what?s happening around the house, to spot an approaching danger, to notice changes in the children?s behavior and appearance. Men?s brains are programmed to hunting, which explains their narrow range of vision, while women?s brains are able to decipher a wider range of information

When entering a room, men look for exits, estimating a possible threat, and ways of escape, while women pay attention to the guests? faces to find out who they are and how they feel. Men are able to sort out information and archive it in their head. Women tend to ?rewind? the information over and over again. The only way to stop thinking of the problems is to talk it over. When a woman shares her problems with a man, she is not looking for solutions ? she needs someone to listen to her. (thats why i seldom response to women's vent)

Men prefer strident noises, hard handshakes, and red color. They are better at solving technical problems. Women have a sharper ear, they use more words while talking, and are better at completing tasks independently.

Based on these biologically explained differences, some psychological distinctions between men and women can be established:

- Men grasp a situation as a whole and think globally, while women think locally, relying on details and nuances.

- Men are builders and creators. They take risks and experiment, while women select the most valuable knowledge and pass it over to the next generation.

- Men are more independent in their thoughts and actions, while women are more willing to follow the ideas suggested by others.

- Women?s self-appraisal is lower than that of men. Women tend to criticize themselves, while men are more satisfied with their own performance.

- Men and women have different sources of satisfaction. For men it?s career and prosperity, while women value family and kids.

- Men have a pronounced need to fulfill their goals, and women rank relationships with others first.

- Men get sick twice as often as women, although women tend to be more concerned about their health.

- Women endure pain and monotonous work better than men.


All the above gets even more confusing, if we take into account that 15 to 20% of men happen to have a female type of brains (mostly must be cancer men lol), and about 10% of women have a male type of brains, which means that some percentage of men and women, no matter how small it seems, are partially programmed to the behavior and way of thinking of the opposite gender

I wonder if there is a correlation between women's bra cup size and their intelligence......this is what one dumb ass smelly pisces guy firmly attested to.
Needless to say he was a total misogynist.

A contortionist? Yes I can be one if the mood is right 😉

interesting stuff alienrobot...