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Do Women think differently from Men? Philosophical implications?
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Posted 12/30/04 - 12:54 PM:
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Possably the woman thinks differently because she is geared to protecting the unborn child. This may explain why most women are more placid than men. Men, on the other hand, have had the role of the hunter and protector or resources for so long it may have become part of our nature.

I did read something, possably in Desmond Morris' Manwatching (recently renamed Peoplewatching) and also on this forum, about the survival instincts of men developed to be for moving and hunting whereas the womens be from being stationary and in groups.

On a more flippant note the difference in behavior is highlighted no more than with the example of chicks going to the toilet at a club. For guys it is a solitary function, for chicks a group activity.

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Posted 12/30/04 - 10:15 PM:

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Limbic size -- bonding/nesting instincts - current research has demonstrated that females, on average, have a larger deep limbic system than males. This gives females several advantages and disadvantages. Due to the larger deep limbic brain women are more in touch with their feelings, they are generally better able to express their feelings than men. They have an increased ability to bond and be connected to others (which is why women are the primary caretakers for children - there is no society on earth where men are primary caretakers for children). Females have a more acute sense of smell, which is likely to have developed from an evolutionary need for the mother to recognize her young. Having a larger deep limbic system leaves a female somewhat more susceptible to depression, especially at times of significant hormonal changes such as the onset of puberty, before menses, after the birth of a child and at menopause. Women attempt suicide three times more than men. Yet, men kill themselves three times more than women, in part, because they use more violent means of killing themselves (women tend to use overdoses with pills while men tend to either shoot or hang themselves) and men are generally less connected to others than are women. Disconnection from others increases the risk of completed suicides. (http://www.brainplace.com/bp/malefemaledif/default.asp)
I can see that some emotion is neccessary for a human to do anything in the first place, but if one experiences strong emotion it seems evident that although it has clear advantages in other areas, in thinking terms it is a straight disadvantage, because it only serves to cloud reason. In other words, philosophically women are challenged more so than men.

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Cellular connections - even though a man seems to have more brain cells, it is
reported that women have more dendritic connections between brain cells.

Corpus collosum size - it is reported that a woman's brain has a larger corpus collusum, which means women can transfer data between the right and left hemisphere faster than men. Men tend to be more left brained, while women have greater access to both sides.

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Posted 01/01/05 - 03:41 AM:
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Men and women are intellectual opposites,
when we examine their relative composites,
men are more left brained,
women are both trained,
together they make a strong partnership.
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Posted 01/01/05 - 04:05 AM:
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Very nice, Rachel.

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Posted 01/03/05 - 02:49 PM:
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Would you agree that a lot of fantasizing is going on here? :P

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Posted 01/03/05 - 04:54 PM:
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Chou wrote:
Would you agree that a lot of fantasizing is going on here? :P

Errmm...more dillusional than fanciful.

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Posted 01/03/05 - 09:29 PM:
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I am male. I have critisisms of both males and females with respect to cogntive differences that characterize masclinity and femininity.

It's come to my attention over the course of years, that females only sexually select based upon evidence that human slavery is being procured in some manner. Which I've always found ironic, given that human slavery is our collective problem... that one gender would re-enforce our only problem as the selective criteria with which to mate.

But with males, I find that they actively work to procure human slavery in order to recieve this sexual selection.

I have never found exceptions to this observation in my stay on this earth.

If a male does not provide evidence that they procure human slavery, they will not be sexually selected. In this, I have noted that the exchange of currency and material goods such as clothes and trinkets has a one to one correspondence with the use of undefined terms used in gossip algorithms. A male is not required to pay physical cash to give evidence that he procures human slavery; he is merely only forced to form opinions using undefined terms, which is just as tangible of evidence that human slavery is being procured as a large wad of cash. Females on the other hand are not required to give any evidence whatsoever that they procure human slavery in order to receive sexual selection from a male.

I think you will find this to be true of human evolution up to this point, and insomuch as it is the current condition, this one difference will illuminate all the other percieved differences in perception.

- The leading cause of preventable death is birth.
- The only way to change the past is through perspective.
- A conspiracy theory always proves at least one thing, superfluous non-transparency with respect to the topic. This in and of itself is criminal.
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Posted 01/05/05 - 12:39 AM:
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banter wrote:

It's come to my attention over the course of years, that females only sexually select based upon evidence that human slavery is being procured in some manner. Which I've always found ironic, given that human slavery is our collective problem... that one gender would re-enforce our only problem as the selective criteria with which to mate.
Classical Feminists would argue the contrary, claiming that men enslave women.
I have never found exceptions to this observation in my stay on this earth.
Are you likely to stay on this earth for very long, or is this just a quick holiday?
In this, I have noted that the exchange of currency and material goods such as clothes and trinkets has a one to one correspondence with the use of undefined terms used in gossip algorithms.
Huh ? What's the point of men and women "exchanging currency"? As for exchanging clothes..... I have no problem with them wanting to cross-dress....even if it's not my cup of tea.

Gramm

Ps: What are gossip algorithms? and how can anyone use them if they have undefined terms...? rolling eyes

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Posted 01/05/05 - 10:46 AM:
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There is more difference among & within each of the sexes, than between the sexes.




And, while I like Kant, I do hate & completely disagree with his backwards, 18th-century Prussian culturally-conditioned worldview on women, other races, etc.

(BTW, for Kant-haters, don't forget David Hume was quite an elitist racist & sexist, as well.)

There is no way you can reasonably expect most philosophers -- or anybody -- from periods before the late 20th century to have very enlightened views about anything non-gentrified-white-male-EuroPhallocentric.

(Though, of course, Buddha, Rousseau, perhaps Christ & some others, do stand out. Extremely few & far between.)

Firmly tie the mind, resembling a mad elephant, to the strong pillar of its perceptual content, with the rope of contemplative inspection, and gradually tame it with the hook of discrimination.

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Posted 01/05/05 - 11:10 AM:
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I'm wondering how much nurture rather than nature might come into this. While I have no doubt that there will be general differences in the thought processes of men and women(this isn't to say that all women think in a completly different manner to all men. Only to say that there may be generic differences in a lot of cases), in every society that I think of, men are brought up differently to women.
From an early age, men and women are subjected to different stimuli, and I'm wondering if this engenders a difference in thought processes at a later stage.

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