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CNN debuted an interesting article written by the talented Dr. Louann Brizendine based around the ideas — and ideals — of the male brain’s functionality versus the female brain’s ideology and while the outcome wasn’t really surprising based on current events in pop culture, it was interesting to say the least.
The bottom lines of the study are similar to the epiphanies that women and men have collectively come to over the past few decades: men are more visually (and subsequently, viscerally) inclined to appreciate women and women are more apt to an attraction of a more emotional nature.
However, while different parts of the brain largely vary across the board, scientists have concluded that the male and female brain — being that we are the same species — is more similar than we think. For example, it’s proven that men are likelier to produce more prolactin, which the study calls “Doting Daddy Brain” and recommends that women allow men to fidget and fuss over their newborn children because it’ll even out the hormonal playing field between the male and female. Long have scientists proven that men and women play off of one another’s pheromones and in this particular case, it’s never been truer.
The study also states that while many women feel that men are the vapid, emotionless droids that they sometimes come across as, the majority of men have emotional ranges that match their female counterparts — even in depth and sometimes even stronger. Men, similar to women, are also proven to have the same type of emotional reactions to loneliness in their older age.
The bottom line is that males and females are more similar on a base level than a lot of people are willing to admit. Society is happy to group men into the mold of a hardcore, thrill-driven sex machine and women into the doting, maternal, emotional cling-on and while it’s sometimes correct in many cases, it’s not The Case — at all. Many of my female friends complain about “manly-men” being “men” and their long-suffering endurance of sports watching, tool buying, porn-ogling cavemen and I think it’s crap. Just as I think that males who complain about their hormone-driven, impulse-buying girlfriends or wives are sadly in the dark.
Women who generalize like this — and men, you’re not blameless either — are simply cheating themselves out of a lasting, devoted relationship where both individuals’ traits are mutually beneficial to the other. Just based upon this study — and a multitude of others that support this type of thinking — there are many, many types of people out there that will suit you best in a relationship and it doesn’t take a rocket scientists to know which types to avoid.
Brizendine’s final advice on the topic?
“The best advice I have for women is make peace with the male brain. Let men be men.”
My two cents? Not only should men also make peace with the female brain and allow females to be females, but all should choose partners based upon complementary traits that’ll not only bring out the best in you, but will help further your relationship with discernment — after all, relationships without a foundation of understanding will always, always founder, no matter what the case.
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You’re telling me men feel and women aren’t vapid brainless objects who have no control over a swipe of a credit card? Shocking information.
I’m pretty sure Judith Butler is having a shirt made right now that says “TOLD YOU SO”.
This article made me feel uplifted and optimistic.
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Agreed! Glad this place isn’t a bitchfest and that we can actually focus on the positive.
Fuck that. Some men really are that stereotypical. So are some women. In a particular relationship, you shouldn’t be looking at the other as a man or woman at all, but as an individual – who may or may not be part of the marjority.
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Ummm… duh.