It seems like it's the taboo thing to say in public (think Larry Summers of Harvard), but I would say it is pretty obvious that men and women generally good at different things, yet the femmes seem to hate the idea. What are your thoughts?
2006-10-19 09:59:03 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Yes, they do. UNTIL, they have to answer a question like this. Then, all of a sudden, they CLAIM otherwise. They are nothing but a political group. Men & women are different. They need to learn to deal with it.
2006-10-19 10:09:40 · answer #1 · answered by nice_boobs 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
I'm a feminist and I believe that men and women do have different mental processes, and any feminist who balks at the idea is missing the point. The point of feminism is not to assert that men and women are exactly the same in all respects, (that would be ridiculous) but that we are EQUAL in all respects. (It's a big difference.) Even though our mental processes are different, they are EQUAL, and one is not superior over the other. we are capable of accomplishing the same things (raising children, running a fortune 500 company) and should be entitled to all rights and considerations for this reason. "Different" does not and should not imply superior or inferior. Some feminists may fear that an emphasis on these "differences" would lead to "qualifying" the disperate characteristics between men and women, and asserting one as superior over the other (we've not fared well with this in the past, you see).
2006-10-19 17:40:26 · answer #2 · answered by wendy g 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I'm a feminist. :-) I know for a fact, that women, whether they're feminist or not, have NEVER ever beleived that men and women have the same mental processes.
Some men have been known to insinuate such a things just for the purpose of getting some "blood boiling" in other men as a means to speak against feminism.
If you stop trying to speak against "women in general", you won't be in such a quandary about women and women who are feminists. Stop pretending you're greater than anyone, then you might actually be happy. :-) Feminists are not out to get you, get that thought out of your head.
We don't want your "mental processes", you can keep it. We like our "multi-tasking brain". It works better for us. Take to heart, it doesn't make us better than you, it's merely what keeps us separate.
We don't want to be men. We enjoy being women. :-) Ever since the women's movement began, men have tried every which way to prove us wrong. If you just take time to understand and really listen to what's being said, you won't feel so threatened. Life is grand. Live it.
2006-10-20 03:31:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Men and women in no way have the same mental process. Women are a lot smarter then men. For the most part men think with their penis. Women use their God given intelligence.
2006-10-22 17:22:01 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that woman have every right to be encouraged just as a man, but as a whole men are more capable of doing many different things physically and mentally. I like the idea of having a Man walk beside me, and I would appreciate a Man wanting a woman to walk beside him. But I have no problem having that door opened for me either.
2006-10-19 18:01:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
You cannot look at existing people and form a conclusion about their potential because very, very, often, in the case of boys, parents/mothers do not know how to share the type of thinking that is often associated with girls; and very, very, often, in the case of girls, it is the schools that do not understand that girls are every bit as likely to have the logic/reasoning skills that boys have but because they also tend to have the verbal/interpersonal abilities associated with girls they tend to see subjects like math as too narrowly focused while they have "bigger and better things" to be thinking about.
In other words, if both boys and girls reached their potential then men and women would share equal across--the-board thinking styles and abilities; but because boys are short-changed in childhood and because girls are short-changed in schools there exists apparent differences in how they think that are mistakenly interpreted as bigger differences in abilities than there really are when it comes to the potential of both genders.
Dr. Summers ran Harvard University. His remarks that pondered why there may be differences in academic specialities showed that he (along with most of the rest of the people who run schools, even if they're school like Harvard) does not have a sufficient understanding of brain development and potential in both genders.
When girls and boys reach most of their potential (when they have the right blend of intellectual and academic nurturing) they are probably the people who are seen as "exceptions" to the incorrect "rule" that has been established as the result of forming judgments based on the failures of parents and schools and not based on scientific reality related to human potential.
I have seen in my own life examples of women who think in a way that "the books" say men think and men who think in a way that "the books" say only women think. I have seen my own two sons' and daughters' abilities, and I can see how the fact that I was the one to nurture them in the first few years resulted in three more people who have the broader range of thinking skills that I have, as compared to the more narrowly focused skills of their father.
I'm not the only one in the world who has either learned enough about child development and brain development and/or who has seen examples of people who have skills and abilities and thinking styles that contradict any belief that girls and boys are born with different types of potential; so that's the reason that remarks that postulate any theories that girls and boys are inherently different in abilities are taboo. Had Dr. Summers had a better understanding of the things that lead to any disparities between girls' and boys' academic achievement he would probably still be at Harvard today.
Those are my thoughts, and if anyone ever wanted me to back them up I would be more than able to do that.
2006-10-20 02:31:03 · answer #6 · answered by WhiteLilac1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
More generalized thinking. How beneficial. You make it sound like women and men have completely different brains. Men and women have different skills. That's all, no big deal. Wendy G said it right.
2006-10-19 20:18:00 · answer #7 · answered by hvjhv 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No, of course not. Men and woman are incredibly different in their thought processes and biological chemistry. No one is denying that. I don't agree the feminists hate that idea, I think you are just generalising. HTH : )
2006-10-20 17:43:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Feminists don't believe they have the same mental process just that women can accomplish the same things as men. And that they can do them just as well. Feminists believe that women should be included in all areas and aspects of the world because their thoughts and ideas can bring to light new solutions.
2006-10-19 17:08:40 · answer #9 · answered by miss m 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I haven't seen any where that they actually believe they have the same mental processes exactly, but they do believe that women are capable of doing just about every thing a man can. With enough hard work, I believe this is true.
2006-10-19 17:07:01 · answer #10 · answered by dolmyyr 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Here is a link that discusses brain gender. You just might learn a few things you never thought of. ^_~ before anybody lynches me, link...
oh, and there is another link from a sociology paper about how education teachers gender to kids..
2006-10-20 02:26:20 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋