Ever felt that your husband/wife/significant other was too ready to debunk any of your suggestions?
Here‘s
a scientific study that proves that it’s true- so true that even the
husband-wife pair who were the lead researchers couldn’t agree as to
its conclusions. Now that would explain why my husband automatically dismisses what I say, so that I have to employ reverse psychology to get agreement with my actual opinions.
And, if you wanted to find out why some ladies are just crankier than
the others, just look to this recent investigation that prove that the genes have the answer. And to think that I was blaming my crankiness on PMS ( and lack of sleep, and lack of me-time and noisy kids and undone chores and…)
Last but not the least, a study which shows how people can be influenced by even obviously fake science by inserting pretty colored pictures of the brain and the mention of neuroscience.
"In a recent study, Deena Skolnick, a graduate student at Yale, asked her subjects to judge different explanations of a psychological
phenomenon. Some of these explanations were crafted to be awful. And
people were good at noticing that they were awful—unless Skolnick
inserted a few sentences of neuroscience. These were entirely
irrelevant, basically stating that the phenomenon occurred in a certain
part of the brain. But they did the trick: For both the novices and the
experts (cognitive neuroscientists in the Yale psychology department),
the presence of a bit of apparently-hard science turned bad
explanations into satisfactory ones."
Now, I’m confused about the earlier studies- To believe or not to believe, that is the question…
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3 responses to “Men from Mars, Women from Venus(Sujatha)”
So, let me get this straight. Women have pre-menstrual rage, post menopausal rage and an all purpose gene for rage during other times. What do men have, pray? With no hormonal ups and downs to disturb their delicate emotional balance, they still have managed to wreak impressive havoc!
Deena Skolnick’s study is quite convincing. The majority among us, tend to take trivial things seriously if dressed up with irrelevant (and sometmes misleading) but impressive big words. Such as quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, neuroscience, astrophysics, epistemology, market forces and Weapons of Mass Destruction. Imagine what P.G. will achieve with his gullible acolytes armed with his research credentials in neuroscience at Caltech!
Another neat trick that puts a seal of seriousness on trivial discussions is the ability to spout a string of mindless acronyms. ;-)
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Speaking of women and anger, this joke was doing the rounds in 2002 just after the Afghan invasion began. A friend emailed it to me. Nearly five years later, the Taliban-Al Qaida-Bin Laden angle is no longer funny. But the description of female rage is still valid.
Take all American women who are within five years of menopause. Train us for a few weeks, outfit us with automatic weapons, grenades, gas masks, moisturizer with SPF15, Prozac, hormones, chocolate, and canned tuna – drop us (parachuted, preferably) across the landscape of Afghanistan, and let us do what comes naturally.
Think about it. Our anger quotient alone, even when doing standard stuff like grocery shopping and paying bills, is formidable enough to make even armed men in turbans tremble.
We’ve had our children, we would gladly suffer or die to protect them and their future.
We’d like to get away from our husbands, if they haven’t left already. And for those of us who are single, the prospect of finding a good man with whom to share life is about as likely as being struck by lightning. We have nothing to lose.
We’ve survived the water diet, the protein diet, the carbohydrate diet, and the grapefruit diet in gyms and saunas across America and never lost a pound We can easily survive months in the hostile terrain of Afghanistan with no food at all!
We’ve spent years tracking down our husbands or lovers in bars, hardware stores, or sporting events…finding bin Laden in some cave will be no problem.
Uniting all the warring tribes of Afghanistan in a new government? Oh, please … we’ve planned the seating arrangements for in-laws and extended families at Thanksgiving dinners for years … we understand tribal warfare.
Between us, we’ve divorced enough husbands to know every trick there is for how they hide, launder, or cover up bank accounts and money sources. We know how to find that money and we know how to seize it … with or without the government’s help!
Let us go and fight. The Taliban hates women. Imagine their terror as we crawl like ants with hot-flashes over their godforsaken terrain.
I’m going to write my Congresswoman. You should, too!
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Ah, the enraged Mama Bear syndrome or the Avenging Goddess Kali! Come to think of it, a truly angry female is capable of much more than the men’s world view would give her credit for.
Speaking of women in combat, I read in today’s paper a view of the Iraq war of keeping in touch with femininity while faced with war: innocuous seeming puff piece by a soldier-mom. At first, I thought it seemed vaguely vapid, that they were obsessing about makeup and shoes while stuck in a place where so much else is happening. But by the end of the article, the author has made her point quite effectively regarding even this trivial mode of coping with the destruction, medical emergencies and death she must otherwise be seeing daily.
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