The male brain

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/23/brizendine.male.brain/index.html?hpt=C2

Men look at attractive women the way we look at pretty butterflies.

really did not know that women want to zerbet butterflies

agh missing some context there, the previous paragraph is this:

All that testosterone drives the "Man Trance"-- that glazed-eye look a man gets when he sees breasts. As a woman who was among the ranks of the early feminists, I wish I could say that men can stop themselves from entering this trance. But the truth is, they can't. Their visual brain circuits are always on the lookout for fertile mates. Whether or not they intend to pursue a visual enticement, they have to check out the goods.

Thanks for giving better understanding on Male and Female brain. I am a teacher, i will pass this message to my student. This brain analysis helps me to understand some unsolvable family problem

the first thing I do when I see an article like this is look at the comments what the fuck has the internet done to me. I mean what the fuck has it done to me that I even look at shit like this but I guess the question in general is what the fuck has the internet done to me

Shit like this brings out the Ben Goldacre Bad Science commentary in my head faster than penicillin brings out a rash.

I hadn't even gotten to the comments, I was still back on "men look at women like women look at butterflies"

i like that cnn.com knows this article is tl;dr so they just sum it up w/ a few bullet points

*butterflies
*boobies rule
*LOL testosterone

i do not look at breasts like they are butterflies

flap flap

*yes you do
*LOL

butterflies or gtfo

saw a butterfly a few days ago and it made me really happy, haven't seen one in a while

butterfly is kinda an underrated album tbqh

All these "male brain/female brain" type "studies" just make me want to scream CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION until I'm blue in the face.

Do people act this way because their brains are wired to? Or are their brains wired that way because they are repeatedly socially conditioned to act that way? (See the old London taxi driver brain study, etc.)

I hate the way that science gets misrepresented in these kinds of articles, but heck, I guess none of you are reading it for the science, you're just all "LOL boobies" etc. :-(

this butterfly thing puts a new spin on the song "Butterfly Kisses"

testosterone + electronics = MANTRONICS
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L-R: HI DERE, Mr. Que

I guess none of you are reading it for the science, you're just all "LOL boobies" etc. :-(

i not reading the article @ all just the helpful bullet points

pretty sure I don't look at LOL boobies cause I was socially conditioned to

this butterfly thing puts a new spin on the song "Butterfly Kisses"

See also "butterfly cakes"

I hate the way that science gets misrepresented in these kinds of articles, but heck, I guess none of you are reading it for the science, you're just all "LOL boobies" etc. :-(

pretty sure people are saying "LOL boobies" precisely because the science is suspect and barely worth addressing but I might be misjudging the reaction

didn't read this but I'm not sure why Debra Messing is writing "science" articles for CNN?

ha that was my exact thought

People don't go to CNN for hard science articles. That's what Fox News is for. (j/k j/k j/k)

pretty sure I don't look at LOL boobies cause I was socially conditioned to

Yeah, I remember going from 'girls are okay unless they have cooties' to 'how do I maximize my booby viewings?' some time around 13 and it was definitely NOT a conscious, semi-conscious or even entirely welcome thing.

"men look at women like women look at butterflies" - chloroformed, pinned through the abdomen and displayed under glass?

http://www.zimbio.com/go/T_2HJTCwqc6/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3350/3255007424_2053b587ba.jpg

chloroformed, pinned through the abdomen and displayed under glass?

thank you, Eli Roth

'how do I maximize my booby viewings?'

the canonical answer is "look in the drawer underneath you dad's Hawaiian shirt"

Not so much the staring at boobies - I think both genders have the urge to look at attractive members of their preferred sex (though girls are constantly taught not to express this or do this overtly in a way that men are actively encouraged to act this way)

It was more the rest of the article and the usual bollocks about "MALE BRAINS are all about TOOLS and PROBLEM SOLVING while FEMALE BRAINS are all about DRESSES and EMOTIONS" - a few months ago, I read similar crap in some magazine in the launderette that basically said that I'm a freak with a male brain and the reason I like computers and maths and fixing stuff is because I was "overexposed to testosterone in the mother's womb" which was just like o_0 levels of WTF.

But you know, hey, this article is kinda sciency and has a great hook about BOOBIES to get people to read it and discuss it, so it must be true. Why am I even typing this? argh.

where's the part of the article about dresses?

Is there an evolutionary explanation for motorboating?

why is porn so ugly? the lightening is always harsh and overly bright. the sex act is so aggressive and rote. there is a lurking undertone of misogyny. is there no market for tender, romantic depictions of love making? answer me this Ms. Messing!

I often think people grossly overestimate the importance of the word "predisposition" in these conversations. Identifying a mean or a median implies statistical outliers to either side; all these studies really point out is a midpoint on a spectrum. Also I don't think you can discount the influence of environment and how that affects the way your body reacts/develops; a starting point is just that and there is nothing that says someone can't enjoy and excel at something based on where they started.

Hetero men, on average, like checking out women because biology predisposes them to do so.

NEWS FLASH

NEWS (BOOBY FLASH)

^^fixed

gracias

i misread this as "The mule brain"

pretty much right

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itt a strange man goes into a trance

a trance in his pants

Mind Hacks brings the neuropwnage:

The thing that immediately struck me was in the initial paragraphs:

"Our brains are mostly alike. We are the same species, after all. But the differences can sometimes make it seem like we are worlds apart.

The "defend your turf" area -- dorsal premammillary nucleus -- is larger in the male brain and contains special circuits to detect territorial challenges by other males. And his amygdala, the alarm system for threats, fear and danger is also larger in men. These brain differences make men more alert than women to potential turf threats."

Male and female humans are indeed the same species, but we are not a species which has a dorsal premammillary nucleus because it's only been identified in the rat.

Furthermore, there is no reliable evidence that amygdala size differs between the sexes in humans and a recent study that looked specifically at this issue found no difference.

The rest of the article is full of Brizendine's usual style which is to take a common stereotype of male or female behaviour and than to 'explain' it with a overly-simple, one dimensional and usually not directly tested brain explanation.

So so sick of these "men are like this / women are like that" articles. They come in all flavors -- neuroscience, ev psych, anthropology, linguistics -- but they all taste like terrible.

but when standup comics do it it's trenchant commentary?

(I don't know what the phrase 'trenchant commentary' means exactly but I get the feeling most standup comics don't make it there.)

The origin of trenchant is 'cutting'.

"trenchanté, mademoiselle" ::stares at boobs::

Quel monde au balcon!

plasmon otm

Kate you seem unhappy

like I can't remember the last time I saw a post from you that didn't involve frustration with being a woman and/or hatred of post-Pure Phase Spiritualized

Gentlemen We Are Floating In Women

dammit needed to be 'Ladies' but I TRIED dammit

Men look at attractive women the way we look at pretty butterflies.

I think the canonical version of this is, "Men look at attractive women the way we look at shoes."

for some reason the words 'grocery groin' are indelibly stamped on my mind at this juncture

'I think the canonical version of this is, "Men look at attractive women the way we look at shoes."'

who said this? Joan Rivers or Dame Edna?

Tell me about the gams, Clarice.

the human face being stamped on forever xp

post-pure phase spiritualized is pretty bad tho. it's not as bad as marginalizing women, but it's pretty close.

Erasing Grace

The "defend your turf" area -- dorsal premammillary nucleus -- is larger in the male brain and contains special circuits to detect territorial challenges by other males. And his amygdala, the alarm system for threats, fear and danger is also larger in men. These brain differences make men more alert than women to potential turf threats."

Wait, what? If anything, it is women who get territorial about their men and circle the wagons, not men! Men don't give a shit or notice, in my experience!

maybe they're talking about world of warcraft.

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall06/V22.0004-001/S3_abutterfly.gif

http://www.markshuttsministries.com/images/butterfly-animated.gif

MUMMY

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^^^clever

actually dyao's first is one of those as well

brb masturbating w/ no hands

things I didn't know about zvookster: passing interest in amateur lepidoptery

just like the old man in that book by nabokov

I mean just like nabokov in that book by the old man

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like I can't remember the last time I saw a post from you that didn't involve frustration with being a woman and/or hatred of post-Pure Phase Spiritualized

I think that says more about the threads that you read than the posts I make.

I've been pretty full of love over on ILM since returning.

Let Him Come Down

Also, frustration with the narrowness of gender roles and societal perceptions of them != "frustration with being a woman."

whey all the ladies magazines on butterflies at?

NSFW

http://www.girltime.com/sitefiles/1000/NudeTopics/Body_Paint_and_Stickers/MarianButterflyBoobs.jpg

Alec Way; Jason Yakich; weave; j✧✧@feastorfam✧✧✧.c✧✧; adam dobrer; David Isbister; Matt Ricketts; Robinson Wageman

entirely possible!

I think that says more about the threads that you read than the posts I make.

uhm waht this is what I meant was entirely possible!

http://neurobonkers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/mans-brain.gif

^ swelling, itching (male) brain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJPVd8cTLBc

AMERIKAN MAEL _ SMELL HIS PEROMONE _ HE WANTS TO MATE _ DOMINANT BOYMAN