Popular belief has long held to the notions that men have brains better equipped for spatial organization and math, whereas women are born with the equipment for language skills and communication. Not so, says Lise Eliot, an associate professor at Chicago Medical School, who claims: “All the mounting evidence indicates these ideas about hard-wired differences between male and female brains are wrong.”
In an interview with guardian.co.uk's The Observer, Eliot said that the basic behavioral differences between the sexes are as a result of lessons taught by our gendered culture—and not genetic legacy. “Children don’t inherit intellectual differences. They learn them. They are a result of what we expect a boy or a girl to be,” Eliot explains.
Other prominent genetic researchers, such as Robert Plomin, a professor at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, support this conclusion. In his research, Plomin has shown that the verbal differences between young boys and girls is separated by a mere 3 percent difference. “Yet people ignore this huge similarity between boys and girls and instead exaggerate wildly the tiny difference between them,” Plomin says. “It drives me wild.”
The more concrete differences between men and women are always available when in the nude—thankfully—and Billionaire Alki David has issued a challenge to either gender, to strip down and “Face Obama Naked.”
David is offering one million dollars for any individual brazen enough to take up the stunt, as long as “Battlecam” is written on their chest while they stand naked in front of President Obama. No word yet on whether David will be attempting the same stunt with the Queen of England, but he mentioned he might. “Keeping it in perspective, I think I’d put a price tag of…I don’t know, $200,000 on the Queen.” Is it because she’s from Venus?
In an interview with guardian.co.uk's The Observer, Eliot said that the basic behavioral differences between the sexes are as a result of lessons taught by our gendered culture—and not genetic legacy. “Children don’t inherit intellectual differences. They learn them. They are a result of what we expect a boy or a girl to be,” Eliot explains.
Other prominent genetic researchers, such as Robert Plomin, a professor at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, support this conclusion. In his research, Plomin has shown that the verbal differences between young boys and girls is separated by a mere 3 percent difference. “Yet people ignore this huge similarity between boys and girls and instead exaggerate wildly the tiny difference between them,” Plomin says. “It drives me wild.”
The more concrete differences between men and women are always available when in the nude—thankfully—and Billionaire Alki David has issued a challenge to either gender, to strip down and “Face Obama Naked.”
David is offering one million dollars for any individual brazen enough to take up the stunt, as long as “Battlecam” is written on their chest while they stand naked in front of President Obama. No word yet on whether David will be attempting the same stunt with the Queen of England, but he mentioned he might. “Keeping it in perspective, I think I’d put a price tag of…I don’t know, $200,000 on the Queen.” Is it because she’s from Venus?
Guess we should finally hang up that old Mars and Venus saying then, although I never used it.