Mog and Chips

Anyway, I found an interesting book in the loft that I’m assuming belongs to my sister or mam about the differences between men and women. I opened the book cautiously, expecting “OMG! Don’t deny men sex when they want it (nevermindthewoman)!” like some Men are from Mars Women from Venus ripoff (I think it was a “365 days of Men are from Mars… (etc) one fact for every day type book)

And ug. If there’s one things that bothers me, it’s the “Women give him sex, man gives her love” …like women don’t want sex and men don’t want love, or that sex should be ‘bargained’ for or is the price one must pay for love. Bah. The book wasn’t so bad, until then.
But some things I didn’t realise (other than obvious biological differences) was apparently:

For a start, men are biologically better drivers because they have better spacial awareness (and it doesn’t help if they can’t reach the Go Kart pedals, [i]Paul[/I] ¬_¬ ), while women are better at fiddly things… but, women get better spacial awareness if they have an increase in testosterone. (presumably the same with heights perhaps?)
Women see a wider range of colours because the number of colour rods in the eyes is related to the X chromosone.
Women have wider peripheral vision, while men can usually focus on one thing and block out the surroundings. This makes men better at driving at night, but more likely to get themselves run over as a pedestrian.
Women find it easier to untangle optical illusions, but men are do better if it involves reading.
Women can pick up higher pitched sounds, but men are better at finding where it’s coming from.
Men aren’t good at telling whether they’re being flirted with (Therefore I am very manly, because I usually can’t either :P)
The skin on a man’s back is 4 times thicker than his stomach O.o
Men are better at tasting salty and bitter things (like beer) and women go after sweet things.
Women use both sides of their brain while men often have one focused for a particular task… but women also have difficulty telling left from right on the spot.
Men prefer to sleep on the ‘door’ side of the bed (some backup on this please?)
If there is trauma to the brain in specific area, a man is more likely to lose that ability than a women because her abilities tend to be scattered, rather than focused in one area. This means retrieval of info/communication within the brain may be slower in women, but they may just compensate with more connections inside the brain (30% more, apparently), bringing them up to speed.
Women are genreally better at English, languages and art, while men are often better at maths and science.
Men are more visual, being turned on by sight (explains why more lads by porn mags than girls :P) while women are more hearing oriented.
Men find it difficult to think much while they’ve got it up (how you’d have sex in a CAT scanner is beyond me but y’know), and it doesn’t say about women (According to Yahoo, women can’t think and orgasm at the same time,  and “men’s orgasms didn’t last long enough to get conclusive results” which amuses me. Again with the managing to get aroused inside and MRI/CAT/PET scanner ) Then again, I suppose if you’re thinking about the weather instead, there’s a problem.

15-20% of men are  ‘feminised’ while only 10% of women are ‘boyish’ (Ahaha, this was written in 2001?! )

My brained is “wired for mainly masculine thinking” (I took a quiz thingy in the book), about 10% under the ‘overlap’ area
.At the same time, this would imply that apart from being manly minded, I should have a deep voice, be very hairy, and be rather violent and horny (since testosterone apparently does that to women :P).

As a side note, women should be hornier in the morning, since testosterone is higher then, than at night

Smoking reduces your testosterone And while testosterone makes more facial hair (for men and women O.O) it’s also more likely to make you bald. So which is the worse fate, lung cancer or baldness?

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