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Gender Differences in the Brain by Helen Fisher, Ph.D.

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Why can’t a man be more like a woman? Why can’t a woman be more like a man? Helen E. Fisher, Ph.D., a biological anthropologist and human behavior researcher, spoke at the University of South Florida to answer these questions.

Fisher is a professor at Rutgers University and has studied romantic interpersonal attraction for more than thirty years.

This event was part of the Frontier Forum lecture series, presented by the USF Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Faculty and sponsored by the USF Office of the Provost, USF College of Arts and Sciences and Mayor Bob Buckhorn.

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  5. Gender Differences in the Brain by Helen Fisher Ph.D
    Why can't a man be more like a woman? or a woman be more like a man?

    Gender differences in intimacy, chunking, sex?, process/goals, differences well it depends?

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  6. I wonder what her take on why and how sexism on a societal level came to be is. I always think it's so important to take a look at the evolutionary psychology when it comes to thinking about or discussing gender issues, I think that's the only way to make sense of it, as psychological sexual dymorphism is a product of evolution. I think that's one of the biggest failures on the part feminism (speaking of modern day internet feminism (also average people. not radical feminists. simply "feminist means someone who believes men and women are and should be treated equally" feminists). That's all I'm familiar with). I definitely agree that sexism is a thing that women are unjustly subjected to, and I think that most of the people who self identify as feminists are coming from the right place, and that most of what they accomplish and are working to accomplish will be a good thing. But I think there are flaws in the ways that those who self identify as feminists come to their conclusions about why people act in sexist ways, what things actually are sexist, and what the real world solutions are to solving these problems beyond pointing them out. I think to actually look deeply into the issues and understand why sexism exists we have accept the fact that psychological sexual dymorphism exists (which many deny being the case, failing to think about how helpful it would be to our survival, to evolve that way, and not acknowledging the body of research that shows actual brain structure differences caused by the fetal brain being exposed to different hormones), and what about the way we evolved made things end up like they did, why things are the way they are, why people act and feel certain ways. It's only when looking through that lens that it's made sense for me.

  8. I am delighted to listen and reading about Dr. Fisher. She is  quite insightful on how she explains her material.  I am just  finishing reading  "why we Love"

  9. Basically this quack con artist is saying women are greater intellects and men are just an inch shy of chronic mental retardation. Hey Helen, your Gender Studies anti-male prejudices are showing. Try actually asking men about our lives instead of telling men how we think and believe to fit your disparaging account of how men experience and live life. It might help if you abandon that over-simplified cartoon caricature of men supplied by feminist gender phrenologist Men are much more complex, varied and nuanced than you're willing to give us credit for.

  10. I knew it. Women are way more verbally articulate in conversation, but not necessarily much smarter than men. I've known many women who are dumb as rocks when it comes to writing, spelling correctly, making logical arguments and writing essays, but when you have a conversation with them they speak wonderfully and sound very intelligent. I actually have a pretty extensive vocabulary, but in conversation I am terrible at using it. I can write long academic essays about all kinds of concepts, but when it comes to live in person conversation I have a lot of trouble getting the words out.

  12. lol. Why do I. An ordinary probably slightly below average IQ man. Who is not a scientist or researcher or academic. Know that what she is saying is complete bullshit. I AM SMARTER THAN THIS WOMAN AND SHE IS A PHD. I am not bragging. I am grieving. This really… shouldn't be possible in our society.

  14. As a female I'd say she's around 50% right about me and my friends. Half of what she says has no validity at all in the people I know.

    There's so much confirmation bias in her presentation that it's barely scientific.

  21. 13 minutes into this and she is wrong in many aspects. I'll just say this: Male vs female brain studies have shown that even though the corpus callosum is somewhat thicker in women (connecting the two hemispheres with a broader "pathway" – let's put it that way) men have better anterior to posterior connections (connecting visual information with decision centers). This fact would indeed suggest that women would be more prone to hollistic thinking since their right hemisphere (which is the hollistic processor) is better wired to the left. Yet, people with no corpus callosum (the Rainman movie depicts a real life individual with this peculiarity) tend to be idiot savants. They perform extraordinary hollistic tasks like reproducing a sketch of an entire city exactly as they saw it (usually with just one glance) from an aeroplane. They are so accurate at this that they will include even the types of cars they see parked on the streets.

    So, what she should be saying is that women have a different TYPE of hollistic perception. Instead she reduces it to "they think more holistically" which is wrong.

  22. BECAUSE GOD CREATED THE MAN TO BE A MAN AND THE WOMAN TO BE A WOMAN !!!!!!!!! BUT HUMAN BEING BECAME MENTALLY ILL, SO THE WOMEN THINK THEY ARE MEN, AND THE MAN THINK THEY ARE WOMEN, CRAZY PEOPLE !!!!!!!!!!!!

  24. Men are hunters – we want to get to the goal, get there quickly with the least amount of hassle or quibbling; woman are socialising – they want to regulate the social group and everyone's place in it especially their own.

    These are biological survival strategies.

    Men don't stare at each other face to face because it could be perceived as aggressive and lead to a costly fight, could also be perceived as needy and weak and vulnerable; women need to read facial expression to ward off potential violence and to nurture those in need.

    Men: "Let's not talk about it and just f*cking get it done." Women: "Let's talk about it and explore all the ramifications and who gets what and what all could go wrong."

    Men leave the cave, trudge through the ice and snow, kill a mastodon, drag the body back to the cave, want to eat, f*ck and sleep; women want to quibble over who gets what, who has sex with whom, whose children are more precious than whose…

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