Are men and women different? How?

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The obvious:

Men have testosterone, women don’t. Women have progesterone, men don’t.

Women can deliver babies, men can’t.

Men are physically stronger than women, women are more emotional than men.

Women have great difficulty with spatial coordination.

Even radical feminist women have told me that they admire men because they are calm in a chaotic situation.
 
so the problem which arose between Adam and Eve over the issue of a Serpent was actually a communications issue, caused by their failure to make allowances for each others different styles of hearing and interpreting what the Serpent said (and of course, what God meant when he told them “don’t eat the fruit”).
 
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puzzleannie:
so the problem which arose between Adam and Eve over the issue of a Serpent was actually a communications issue, caused by their failure to make allowances for each others different styles of hearing and interpreting what the Serpent said (and of course, what God meant when he told them “don’t eat the fruit”).
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I see it as in explaining Chess pieces to a beginner. The king is the most important piece in chess, but the queen is the most powerful.
 
I was trying to stay out of this discussion. I was really, really trying…
Kevin Walker:
The obvious: Men have testosterone, women don’t. Women have progesterone, men don’t.
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Men and women BOTH have testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone.
Kevin Walker:
Women can deliver babies, men can’t.
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Tell that to any male OB/GYN and see what he thinks!
Kevin Walker:
Men are physically stronger than women, women are more emotional than men.
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Generalizing, I know. I see men and women put through horrific, life-changing circumstances every day and the men tend to show raw emotion just as frequently as the women.
Kevin Walker:
Women have great difficulty with spatial coordination.
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Cite your source. Because this female former math major and current heart surgeon disagrees.
Kevin Walker:
Even radical feminist women have told me that they admire men because they are calm in a chaotic situation.
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Remaining calm in a chaotic situation isn’t an innate male quality. Serving in Desert Storm and working as a trauma surgeon in an ER that saw more GSW per day than most hospitals see in a year has taught me that.
 
The fact that 46% did not find a valid option indicates that the pole is defective.

One of the missing options is : men and women have innate differences, personally acquired differences and culturally induced differences

Verbum
 
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Verbum:
One of the missing options is : men and women have innate differences, personally acquired differences and culturally induced differences
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Sounds about right. It is impossible to generalize what has caused the differences between men and women. Friends are a huge factor, as well as school, area in which a child is raise, family life, interests, internal motivation (I don’t even know where that one comes from), and lots of other factors. The only definite, always-true differences between a man and a woman can be found in an anatomy book.

Eamon
 
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LabChick:
I was trying to stay out of this discussion. I was really, really trying…

Men and women BOTH have testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone.

Tell that to any male OB/GYN and see what he thinks!

Generalizing, I know. I see men and women put through horrific, life-changing circumstances every day and the men tend to show raw emotion just as frequently as the women.

Cite your source. Because this female former math major and current heart surgeon disagrees.

Remaining calm in a chaotic situation isn’t an innate male quality. Serving in Desert Storm and working as a trauma surgeon in an ER that saw more GSW per day than most hospitals see in a year has taught me that.
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Well Dr. you’re obviously one of the rare exceptions.

As to women being deficit in spatial coordination, I was taught that in my Psychology courses and it was further confirmed by one of the feminist students in my Organic Chem courses who was using space filling models because she couldn’t rotate a benzene ring diagram in her head.

It was also confirmed on my tall ship, a three masted square rig sailing ship, as we were sailing around Newfoundland in 1997, when the female crew members all stalled when it came to either knot tying or when it came to coil-and-hang.

As I was teaching sailing along the Charles River at a well known college, a female physician cried uncontrollably on my shoulder because she hated her profession and was stuck being a ‘doctor’. Another female physician sailing student also cried to me about her ‘golden handcuffs’.

And as a former Navy diver and construction worker, all the female divers and workers proved less than equal to the task.

So I do not exaggerate the differences between men & women doctor, both from my Psychological studies and my first hand experiences, and I feel very strongly that women should not be ordained as Priests.

Thank you!
 
Men and women are different. One is not better or worse than the other, they’re just different. It can even be scientifically proven. For example, it’s a proven fact that our horomones are different. It is also scientifically proven that women can bear children and men can’t.
 
Men and women have their own strenghts and abilites, but show them in thier own differnt and unique ways. Well, there are some obvious differences biologibally, but also mentally.

God Bless–JMJ
Laura:)
 
Hermione:

DUH, of course they’re different!!! As God made all of us!!!

Men are hunters by nature, conquerors, aggressive, go-getters, protectors and providers; women are by nature more compliant, more nurturing, more loving, giving, etc., which BTW makes a perfect compliment in marriage, at least IMO. Why, I believe, God intended it to be so, for men to be the protectors, providers and leaders, and women to make the home, be the heart, the domestic goddess. Sure there might be exceptions, but IMO this is God’s “ideal” design.

I do not think men were meant to be nurturing by nature, or raisers/caretakers of the children, just like I do not think women were meant, by design, to be “career women”, to be the ones “bringing home the bacon”. I think there are roles, and for a reason, and IMO only, I do think when deviation from these roles in marriage exist, troubles will follow.

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LabChick:
Cite your source. Because this female former math major and current heart surgeon disagrees.
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There was a study reported in Scientific American sometime in the 80’s (the special issue on the brain) that discussed the different capabilities of the male and female brain.

Some of the differences included
Female brains found it easy to organize things into categories and remember how it is done (important for math and filing), how to solve complex equations.

Male brains found it easy to manipulate 3-d objects and read blue prints or plans (important in math and engineering)

There was a whole list of differences, and I don’t remember them all. Just because a person does not find something easy to do, doesn’t mean they cannot do it.

Man and woman were made complimentary (see Gn 1). I believe in John Paul’s Theology of the Body he empasizes how man was made in God’s image, male and female He made them. Because God (3 persons) is a relationship centered being, and we, as male and female, should also be relationship centered. Not individuals thinking we can do it all, but as communities (marriage) that can use each others natural capacities to live a good and holy life.
 
oh, oh, oh, I’ve got the answer. Men give the flowers and women get them.
 
Some people are more visual Kevin, I learn by hearing and discussion, not by reading and retention, or even seeing (unless it’s by looking at a painting, and even then I need the discussion)

As for women crying about their "golden handcuffs, could it possible be that they sunk hundreds of thousands of dollars into an education, and many years of learning and training, only to find out that it’s really not what they want to be doing? Cause I hear that. I’m on my second MA, and about a bijillion dollars in debt, and still not sure what I want to do when I’m a grown up.

I’m hardly emotional. I can count on 2 fingers the number of times I cried this year. One was when I broke my leg three weeks ago snowboarding (and most guys would tear up a bit at having multiple fractures, and a black eye and a chipped tooth) and the other was when I went to the wake of a good friend of mine (again, my guy friends were crying then too) I’m pretty ambitious, a go getter, I bust my butt 40 hours a week at work 20 hours of school and another 20 hours or more of research and homework. All while housebreaking a dog, going to the gym (tho not now, hard to do cardio in a cast, I mean it, seriously try to do the eliptical for 40 min, even if you manage your leg will be sooooo itchy you’ll want to saw it off)
 
Men and women are different, but I don’t think the differences listed in the poll are accurate. Any time someone makes a statement about typical differences between men and women, people start pointing out exceptions. Of course there are exceptions, but I think that the average man tends to be more competitive and ambitious and the average women is more nurturing and diplomatic, women think aloud more while men tend to ponder things silently, and women multitask while men focus on one activity. Basically, I think women naturally have more ability to take care of other people (children, elderly, sick), while men have more ability to manipulate the environment for the benefit of themselves or their families and obtain the things they need from the world around them. But all these differences are relative - men and women are best at, and most enjoy, different types of work but can also do the ‘other gender’s work’, only usually not as well or happily.
 
i think right now pretty much all feminists are radical feminists because women dont have any more rights or anything to get. i dont see any legitimate reasons for a woman being a feminist anymore.
 
This reminds me of a University Class, a Class in Psychology on the Soph level.

The Prof asked, “What is the difference between men and women? Then He pointed at a lady sitting next to me. She answered,“I don’t know”. Then he pointed to me, and I answered,” I claim the 5th Amendment, I have no answer". He stopped and said, "Two I don’t knows so far, what’s the difference? I blurted out ,“The secondary sexual characteristics plus women cry more”. Prof laughed and took it from there.
 
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