The sexes may be equal, but they are not interchangable. Why do people confuse the two?

Question

There are always exceptions in both sexes, but in general men are better at certain things like (math/sciences/logic) and women are better at everything else. But still...

Answer 1

I don't know about that You compare math/science/logic vs "everything else." I'm not sure I would say that.

But yes, I agree there are specific differences between men and women, and yes they are equal but not interchangable. Unfortunately many people have lost sight of that, and that's not a good thing.

Answer 2

Why do people worry so much about how interchangeable men and women are?!! The truth is that they are more interchangeable than people today generally realize.

It may be true that based on what is seen out there in existing men and women it appears that men are better at the math/science/logic thing and women are better at everything else. You have to consider, though, the measuring who is already out there and there abilities may be an indication that both little girls and little boys have been failed when it comes to raising them in a way that allows both to reach their full human potential.

Exceptions are not always the result of some person who got some mixed up blend of hormones that made them more one thing or the other than their gender is supposed to be. While hormone mix-ups may occur, I suppose; some exceptions are simply the result of parents who know exactly how to raise their child/children in a way that didn't hinder the abilities that until now have generally been attributed to the opposite gender.

Logic and reason are a function of IQ level for the most part. Human and verbal skills tend to more be related to what parents do when a child is a baby and toddler. Many little girls are failed by parents when it comes to what has to be done to promote intellectual growth, and many little boys are failed when it comes to nurturing them and talking to them in a way that promotes verbal/"human" skills.

Science has a way of assuming that it knows everything there is to know until it figures out the next thing that proves that the old beliefs weren't quite right. I have experienced my own little "science experiment" on this matter because I have an adopted son, a biological son and a daughter - and I tried out my theories (related to brain development and personality development) from the time they were all babies, and I can see that there is still more to be learned by science when it comes to this subject.

If it were possible, what needs to be studied would be the similarities and differences of the brains of a wide selection of newborns and then the effects on any blend of hormones and/or other "chemicals" that result from the external and internal environments, which, in turn, can then affect the blend of hormones and/or other "chemicals", which, finally, must effect alterations in the physiological alterations in brain development and/or any influencing of electrical connections developed in the infant's brain over the first two years or so.

This is the study that would prove that most likely a very, very, large percentage of differences between men and women are related to what their parents did when they were babies and toddlers.

Another question to ask would be whether levels of testosterone in baby boys are much of a factor when the child is an infant or whether those levels don't rise to a point where they have all that much effect until the boy reaches adolescence.

Schools - knowing that math/logic skills are associated with a high IQ - often don't recognize that the child who is more evenly balanced may actually have a very high level of math ability; because the more balanced child (girl or boy) does not fit the sterotype of the wiz kid in demeanor. As a result, the schools measure abilities by who gets the best grades, lose the more balanced children because they don't even know they exist as far as abilities go, and then just kind of assume the more balanced kids are underachievers or not as bright. Hence, the image of the math/science person who doesn't do well in relationships or who may even have mental or social problems.

The world is full of girls who have the ability but aren't directed into math/science professions because the schools don't know how capable the girls are. The same happens with more well-rounded boys. As a result a whole group of people who have superior innate logic skills aren't well educated in math and/or science. Parents and schools often fail boys in a similar way by assuming that they aren't capable of anything other than behavior that brings about the saying, "Boys will be boys". They expect less and get less.

People can do all the studying and observing they want of the people who are already developed and grown past early childhood, and they will not get an accurate picture of what such people originally had the potential of becoming.

Answer 3

Hey where do you get your info. I am better at math/science/logic than any guy I've ever met. I don't think men are logical at al. But I know that isn't your point. Lets just say they are equal yet different in their own way depending on the individual.

Answer 4

I think in order to find an answer to your question you must figure out why you feel that in general men or women are 'better' at things. Are you suggesting its biological; or a result of culture? or is there some other factor? By figuring this out you might find an answer to why 'people' (whatever that is suppose to mean) confuse the two.

Answer 5

well not necessarily. if there's a job, and two people apply, and one is a woman and one is a man, if the woman's better at math, then she should get the job (if the job involves math, of course-you get the idea). It should be taken on an individual basis with no regards to gender.

Answer 6

Because they can.