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 Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 7:40 pm
Have you ever wondered why males and females are so different? Many studies show that it is due mainly to the difference in the construction of our brains and some say that it is due to how we are raised in society. (neuroscientists/some psychologists say the first hypothesis, and psychologists/anthropologists say the second)
Personally I am going with the first hypothesis, but I do believe that the second one has merit as well. Which do you think has the most credibility? Human neuroscience or human psychology and the raising of our offspring today?
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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 10:27 am
I'm on the society side of the argument, but I won't discount that there may be some sex-related differences in brain structure.
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Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 10:24 pm
I think it just has to do with society and such, although the brain might have a slight change when it comes to gender, but I don't think that would have a significant impact.
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Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:17 am
there was an experiment after an accident on two twin boys.
they were both being circumsised but their was an accident with a lazer and the choice was made to change one into a girl.
the family had to raise this child as a girl but when puberty started, she (known as brenda) became increasingly unhappy and confused, as was should have been happening wasn't. they took the choice to revert to their true gender.
(check http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/boyturnedgirl.shtml)
human neuroscience is strongest, as i think that everyone depending on how they are raised think differently, so the psychological methods are nothing more than guesses. (in my opinion)
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:42 pm
100% Nature 100% Nurture. I think it's both. I've heard that girls have more neuro-pathways on one hemisphere than boys do. But of course gender roles and such play a role as well.
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:09 am
I agree that it's both. We know that there are chemical differences in the brains of males and females. Yet, at the same time, this is not solely responsible for the behavioral differences. That is where society comes in. It is society that forms the roles that each gender is expected to follow.
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:27 pm
I'd say both. I mean, reading articles on the differences between them says a lot. But then again, so does the way a person is raised and what surrounds them.
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Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 1:13 am
I'd say both, but society plays the biggest role.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:42 am
Warkwarkwoo there was an experiment after an accident on two twin boys. they were both being circumsised but their was an accident with a lazer and the choice was made to change one into a girl. the family had to raise this child as a girl but when puberty started, she (known as brenda) became increasingly unhappy and confused, as was should have been happening wasn't. they took the choice to revert to their true gender. (check http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/boyturnedgirl.shtml) human neuroscience is strongest, as i think that everyone depending on how they are raised think differently, so the psychological methods are nothing more than guesses. (in my opinion) I remember hearing about him it was rather sad he ended up killing himself sad But with this argument, I think that brain physiology has the underliying "base" construction of our gender. But social issues play a very large part. The nature vs. nurture argument is rather hard to study in humans as there are so many other variables that have to be taken into account.
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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:23 pm
I think that the brain has to do with it some, but I think that culture affects behavior more. I'm a girl, but I act a lot more like what a boy is supposed to act like.
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 9:02 am
Both biology and psychology play an imprtant role in gender identity, both between the genders and within them - some men are more "macho" than others and some women more "feminine" than others. Despite the differences that brain chemistry may play in development there is enormous pressure in any society for people to fit into a gender role early on. I recall a funny story from a gender-studies class in college. One female professor in the subject, as the story goes, wanted to expressly teach her toddler son that males and females were defined only by biology and not by behaviors or cultural attitudes. (The theory being taught was that young children judge gender by the differences they observe between boys and girls - hence in their young minds a girl wearing a dress isn't wearing a dress because she is a girl but rather she is a girl because she is wearing a dress). This young boy, being taught that he was a boy because of his male biology, and that was that, took little regard to acting like a typical boy. One day he wore hair barett's to preschool at which point other boys taunted him, calling him a girl. The young boy, eventually exasperated, dropped his britches to prove to the other boys that he was male like them. The proof was utterly wasted, as the other boys were unconvinced, one even saying "so what, everyone has one of those." I tried to keep that story as clean as I could, so sorry if anyone is blushing, but it still amuses me to think about it.
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