Nature or culture?

[Sky Garden]

Wasn't there a recent post about stereotyping?

[Sopie]

People can observe for themselves that women's and men's bodies are noticeably different. This, because of the different cocktail and sequencing of hormones starting from the moment of conception. Yet people can't seem to accept that, just as in the rest of the body, the brains of men and women might just be arranged and wired just a bit differently, all under the action of the same cocktail of hormones.

Yes we have different bodies, but does those biological differences are enough to explain our different personnalities?
When we born, our brains are almost the same. It's just later, with the stimulations from our environment (notably our education), men's and women's brains got differents.
And individual are not affect the same way with the same quantity of hormones. Men have biologically more testosteron, but what about if women need less quantity of testosteron to get sparklings in the panties?
I personnaly think the whole humanity got totally wrong with the assumption of men more sexual-oriented than women.
Same for almost all generalizations Elithium wrote down. We have been brain washed to believe it.

[Hombre de Maiz]

Inform yourself here: Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate

[lone_ranger]

Inform yourself here: Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate

I'll second that suggestion, Pinker's is an excellent book.

[Hombre de Maiz]

It not only goes through the neuroscience, biology and evolutionary evidence for our very distinct nature, but also about the politics of what can be said, what has been deemed to be acceptable to be said, what has established an orthodoxy in the nurture/nature debate in which the mere suggestion that nature plays a role has been sidelined.

[haryadi]

Hmm..what else ..how about the fact that men are capable to produce millions of sperm while women are only capable to produce single egg in a month?
From evolutianary point of view, what can we conclude from this fact.

Btw, I know a case of a woman which after she recovered from a brain trauma (she got a near fatal accident in the head), her sexual appetite is higher than before the accident,and some other personality change. I was told by her husband about this. After that, I google for similar cases , and actually it's well documented case .

Human brain is a complex system, scientist all over the world are still trying to figure out how this system works.

[Hombre de Maiz]

Hmm..what else ..how about the fact that men are capable to produce millions of sperm while women are only capable to produce single egg in a month?
From evolutianary point of view, what can we conclude from this fact.

That sperm is cheap, relative to eggs? That conception depends on sperm competition among males inside the female body, not on physical competition among males out on the plains of the savana? There are many possible conclusions.

[phiss]

Hmm..what else ..how about the fact that men are capable to produce millions of sperm while women are only capable to produce single egg in a month?
From evolutianary point of view, what can we conclude from this fact

The male product is so inferior that it needs millions just to ensure that one can have a remote chance of reaching its destination, whereas the female product is so near perfect it only has to lie around waiting for that one little squiggly thing to hit its target and commence fertilization. Unfortunately (or fortunately in some people's eyes) even that one doesn't always make it home!! Keep it up guys!!

[Hombre de Maiz]

So, what were are saying is that there are many possible conclusions.

[waarmstrong]

... while women are only capable to produce single egg in a month...

Actually that is not true. Women can produce multiple eggs simultaneously. I do believe that research supports the notion that the total number of eggs a women can produce in her life time is finite.