After decades of bad sociology, worse psychology and absolutely deplorable journalism about both, we finally let hard science lead us back to common sense -- men and women are different:
Male and female brains are different in architecture and chemical composition, asserts Brizendine. The sooner women -- and those who love them -- accept and appreciate how those neurological differences shape female behavior, the better we can all get along.
Start with why women prefer to talk about their feelings, while men prefer to meditate on sex.
"Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road," she writes. Men, however, "have O'Hare Airport as a hub for processing thoughts about sex, where women have the airfield nearby that lands small and private planes."
Of course that's just the beginning of the story, not the end. The wonderful thing about being human is that we are not completely prisoners of our biological predispositions. Our brains may all be wired differently, but they still perform the same basic functions. Most of our lives is from what we choose to be, not what we are programmed to be. But we have to start with what we know to be true, not what we wish to be so.
Even this scientist, searching for objective truth, can't quite leave her sociological progamming behind. Notice she says that our knowledge of brain differences means must be appreciated and understood by women and those who love them. What about men, whose behaviors are also shaped by their brains? Oops, there I go being politically incorrect.
