What would you objectively consider,?

Question

are the differences between men and women psychologically, sociologically, emotionally . . the obviousness of the physical, please omit, since we are ALL aware of it.

Thank you!

Answer 1

From an anthropological point of view women have become their own person without the need of a man to take care of them. Women are different psychologically, socially, and emotionally. And its all good. If we could just learn to get along. Don't pile up the garage if you don't want to clean it. Take out the trash, she filled it up feeding you. And give up sports they are childish games.

Answer 2

Men and women are biologically different - but individual men are more or less different than women and vice versa. There are various levels of difference. And then of course, many of the differences are learned. How we act out male and female is socially constructed.

For example, it is true that men's and women's brains have differences. Men's brains are typically bigger than women's, relative to body size. That doesn't mean much in itself about intelligence. It means that there is a bigger portion of men's brains, on average, that is devoted to s*x. Women's brains contain a greater density of various neurons and connections than do men's brains.

Men, of course, have greater levels of testosterone, on average, than do women (until they get older when men have less testosterone and women begin to get greater levels).

Thus, even if you look cross culturally, men - on average - have greater tendencies toward violence. But the gradient of violence is different for different cultures. So in a relatively non-violent culture, the violent men may be less violent than women who live in a more violence-prone culture. Yet in both cultures (the less violent and the more violent) men are - on average - more violent than the women in their culture group.

So there are biological differences that are influenced and managed by culture. And they are average differences. Being average, they pertain differently from one individual to the next.

Answer 3

I just read a great article on an experiment they did with lab-rats...

The researchers removed an organ (vomeronasal organ) from the nose of female lab-rats.  At first they removed it by genetically altering the rats... but after-wards, they used regular rats and removed the organ surgically.

Both times the results were the same.  The females acted more like males.  They did not take care of their young, they were more sexually active and agressive.  The conclution being that, in rats, the difference between males and females was in the nose...

Humans do not have a vomeronasal organ... so we cannot simply translate the findings over to our species.  Yet, the argument is still there:

Men and Women are probably exactly the same...but different sensory organs make us perceive the world differently.

Answer 4

It all comes down to a difference of Hormone dominance within a single species...

Answer 5

Jeez!, I really can't dig this "jonmcn49" nerd-kind of answer.

I can't tell if what he means is "we are different because we are different" or "we are emotionally different because we are physically different". That's dogmatic thinking.

Of course there is a biological basis for us being different, but if you believe all other differences depend on or are conditioned by the "need" to reproduce, then you understand nothing about what culture is.

Unless you are a Mooney, then you spend a lot more time having s*x for fun than having s*x to reproduce. So you want to explain all those hours "because" what you really want is to have kids? Come on, give me a break.

Human culture was built upon human biology, but it turned to be it's master.

If you cannot see the differences among human cultures you are hardly in a position to understand them. What is your single theme? That we are all born, then grow up, reproduce and die?

Truth is for religious believers and positivist scientists (ends meet).

Real science is more complex than learning a couple of rules and repeating them untill everyone thinks there is no more need for a deeper understanding of the problem.