Comparing Maps of Male and Female Brains!
Today I came across these two brain maps, just by chance, and thought they were very clever.
The Male Brain (above), image from: http://www.wernersplace.com/images/malebrain.jpg
The Female Brain, image (above) from: http://www.wernersplace.com/images/femalebrain.jpg
Madame Monet
Tags: avoiding personal questions, chocolate, committment, dangerous pursuits, differences between male and female brains, domestic skills, driving manual transmission, indecision, ironing, jealousy, lame excuses, listening skills, need for commitment, sense of direction, sex, shoe/handbag coordination, shopping, short attention span, sports, telephone skills, TV and Remote Control addiction
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January 13, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I enjoyed this.
Rather true I think!!!
January 14, 2008 at 11:45 am
I agree, very true and very funny, nice one
January 17, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I don’t think these are jokes but real scientific studies.
One New Year’s resolution you could make would be to post a drawing you’ve done. Another could be to clean up all that sand in your area.
January 17, 2008 at 6:43 pm
These are funny–the old clichès. It was so comfortable to believe them. But I don’t anymore. The change I’ve seen in this country in the last twenty years would make anyone doubt about what is peculiar to each sex. It certainly confuses about what is nature and what is custom. Even physionomy seems to have changed. The women (Schopenhauer’s short-legged sex) run as fast as men. They’re lousy drivers and can’t park? Oh, come on! They have a bad sense of orientation? Maybe the housebound ones. They like to shop? I know plenty who hate it, just like men. I’m not even sure how big the biological differences are–they may soon be eliminated.
January 17, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Well I like to shop, have a terrible sense of direction and don’t like doing dishes. Maybe I better start wearing skirts like Miki’s father.
I still like the old fashion (now rare) nuturing woman who cooks, cleans, iron’s, simpathesizes with my multitude of failures/charater flaws, does my yard work, and still through it all does not spend an excessive amount of time contemplating killing me.
I’ve forgotten to point I was trying to make.
January 17, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Biological differences? Eliminated??!!! I most certainly hope not! but then again…..you only have to look at michael jackson….or Marilyn Manson..
At the risk of creating a stir, MM, I’ve never met a woman who could park to save her life, although I concede they can apply lipstick in the rearview mirror while doing 60 miles an hour.
Bill- the sand gag- could that be classed as dry humour?
January 19, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I am allergic to this kind of theories, because there are way too many people who take them seriously and dish them up with cabbage sauce.
January 19, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Cantueso’s right–though who wants to wreck the fun? Kevin: tell that to the thousands of women taxi drivers annd bus drivers and truck drivers in this country and see how they smile at you. These are Old Husband Tales, admittedly reinforced by some women for the all-too-well-known reasons. You can laugh but don’t you feel a little hypocritical too, the same as with some ethnic jokes?
January 20, 2008 at 2:32 pm
The real question is this: why do so many (most ?) female bloggers perpetually concentrate on themselves? Every day of their lives! There is a worm in the apple and the worm does not try to get out of the apple; nor does he try to understand the appleness of the apple, but instead tries to understand its own wriggling forward and sideways!
God knows I have tried many times to figure this one out. Sigh.
January 24, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I think its a bit strong to compare this to ethnic humour, 100 swallows…
It’s just my experience that generally women cant park as well as men, and although I concede there will always be exceptions that prove the rule, there is scientific evidence to support this:
“Dr Camilla Benbow of the Iowa State University observed that four year old boys have far better spatial skills than their sisters. Even the best girls are eclipsed by the worst boys – something I’m sure all parents have noticed. It’s because the brains of boys and girls develop differently. The right side of a boy’s brain develops sooner than his left. Girls brains grow much more evenly, and these special spatial areas do not develop. So they’re more likely to mix up left and right, for example, compared to boys.” So..there you go. Cantueso, surely a blog forum can be used at the discretion of the blogger, a woman who in life, perhaps cannot communicate, or interact, or shine, has every right to shout me! me! me! We dont have to read it, but its perhaps good therapy for them. On the other hand, the worm that spends its life pinpointing the defects and imperfections of the apple in which it lives, surely misses the glory of the fruit as a whole.