Male and Female Brains Really Are Built Differently

Seriously, do people really think our brains are the same? Wow. Stephen Pinker tells it like it is: From The Blank Slate by Stephen Pinker: “Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology. Gender feminism is an empirical doctrine committed to three…

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Do women really make men better or do men make WOMEN better?

Interesting: This idea that a womanly presence can soften the menfolk has a long history in literature and myth – remember Pocahontas interceding before her father for John Smith’s life? But it is strange – and not necessarily positive – to see it borne out by science. But what about the other piece of the…

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The REAL Marriage Inequality

                        While the upscale college-educated crowd continues to marry at very high rates, marriage rates are plummeting among those further down on the socioeconomic ladder An excerpt from here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/03/18/gay-marriage-marriage-equality-column/1994405/ Where marriage and kids were once seen as the beginning of life as an adult,…

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Why good women stay with bad men – OXYTOCIN

What is oxytocin?  It’s one of our many hormones. Both men and women have it, and while its exact purpose is still unclear, it increases in our systems during orgasm and during childbirth – it’s what bonds mothers to their babies. Is it him or the oxytocin that I’m attracted to?  Oxytocin has been found…

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Where do all the angry white men come from?

    ‘When one looks at the horrific abuse meted out to feminist campaigners such as Caroline Criado-Perez (far right), it is hard to see it as anything but aggrieved entitlement.’ Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/PA     By Ally Fogg – theguardian.com Thursday 7 November 2013    The gender script for women has been largely torn up – a young…

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