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Researcher: Men’s and Women’s Brains Wired Differently

• Posted by Theresa on August 25th, 2006 filed in Book Review

A few neurological differences between women and men according to Louann Brizendine’s book “The Female Brain“:

• Thoughts about sex enter women’s brains once every couple of days; for men, thoughts about sex occur every minute.
• Women use 20,000 words per day; men use 7,000 per day.
  
• Women excel at knowing what people are feeling; men have difficulty spotting an emotion unless someone cries or threatens bodily harm.
  
• Women remember fights that a man insists never happened.
  
• Women over 50 are more likely to initiate divorce.
  

Male and female brains are different in architecture and chemical composition, asserts Brizendine. The sooner women — and those who love them — accept and appreciate how those neurological differences shape female behavior, the better we can all get along.

Start with why women prefer to talk about their feelings, while men prefer to meditate on sex.

“Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road,” she writes. Men, however, “have O’Hare Airport as a hub for processing thoughts about sex, where women have the airfield nearby that lands small and private planes.”

I think I might have to go out and get this book. I remember how much I enjoyed looking at the differences in men’s and women’s brains in the book Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps by Barbara and Allan Pease.

I know it is more “politically correct” to say that we are all the same, but come on, we all know how different we are. I for one, enjoy the differences. Frustrating at times, yes, but what would be the fun of life if we were all the same. And knowing that there are differences makes them so much easier to accept.

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