This post is prompted by the lengthy thread of yesterday about male-female emotional differences.

I ordered “The Female Brain” a few weeks after it was published last August.  It is important reading for guys trying to understand gals and for women trying to understand themselves.  (I have had older women admit to me that “we sometimes don’t understand why we do things.”)

A paperback edition is now available on Amazon for half of the $25 I paid for the hardback.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780767920094&itm=1

From the Publisher:
Every brain begins as a female brain. It only becomes male eight weeks after conception, when excess testosterone shrinks the communications center, reduces the hearing cortex, and makes the part of the brain that processes sex twice as large.

Louann Brizendine, M.D. is a pioneering neuropsychiatrist who brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and whom they’ll love. Brizendine reveals the neurological explanations behind why

• A woman uses about 20,000 words per day while a man uses about 7,000

• A woman remembers fights that a man insists never happened

• A teen girl is so obsessed with her looks and talking on the phone

• Thoughts about sex enter a woman’s brain once every couple of days but enter a man’s brain about once every minute

• A woman knows what people are feeling, while a man can’t spot an emotion unless somebody cries or threatens bodily harm

• A woman over 50 is more likely to initiate divorce than a man

Women will come away from this book knowing that they have a lean, mean communicating machine. Men will develop a serious case of brain envy.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY: Louann Brizendine, M.D., a neuropsychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco, is the founder of the Women’s and Teen Girl's Mood and Hormone Clinic. She was previously on faculty at the Harvard Medical School and is a graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine and the University of California, Berkeley, in neurobiology. She has written in professional texts and journals, and she lectures widely to the public and in the media on the female brain. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and son.


-- Modified on 7/26/2007 8:57:49 PM

...and take out the garbage please!

OK I admite despite your shameless plug for the book, your "advertisement" does look like it could be an interesting book.

With that said, what relevance would reading that book have to do with whoremongering which is the basic intent of this site? How is understanding the female brain going to improve my search and experience for and with a provider? It's a business transaction not a relationship

This board deals with more than merely the "essentials" of hobbying.  Most of us deal with women in every aspect of life: wives, former wives, girlfriends, daughters, co-workers, and now-days, even bosses.

I posted this because I am fascinated by women and make the effort to understand them.....hence my "handle" WymenLover....(pronounced phonetically...someone else already had WomenLover)

If you don't care, don't bother with the post or the book........now go back to the Cave, Robin, .... I'm busy with one of those fascinating creatures.....

-- Modified on 7/27/2007 5:38:10 PM

I have always believed women had far more emotional intelligence than men, though there are some out there where the rule doesn't apply. I think we are able to adapt and change easier than men and are often very resilient as well.

I don't see it as woman vs. man, each has their own uniqueness and complement the other.

For her part, Mrs. Einstein was once asked if she understood relativity.  She responded that she did not; but that she understood Mr. Einstein.

Now, who was the smarter?

"Every brain begins as a female brain."  What is a "female" brain exactly?  Does it have a vagina built in?   Seems like they are confusing brain and mind.

This sort of biological reductionism eliminates the impact that social conditioning has in producing our individual and social behavioral patterns.  Also, by using the word "female" it implies that these traits carry over into all cultures in all historical periods.

Recognizing behavior is not the same as explaining it, much less understanding it.

Might I recommend something that actually acknowledges and respects the complexity of women [and men]?

OK - snide sexist remarks aside... ("Bob")  giggle.

I can tell you there are definate differences in the male and female brains caused by hormones.  As a transsexual I've had the unique opportunity to explore each.

Here's a good example.  Before I transitioned if something didn't blow up in a movie don't bother me...  Now, after nearly 3 years of taking female hormones I am totaly grossed out by such movies. Give me the Lifetime channel!

Giggle,
TS Jamie