gengwall

I beg to differ Paula. Brain scan studies are showing more and more convincingly that men and women do in fact think differently precisely because of our physiology – if “thinking” means how we gather, process, and react to information and stimuli. There is one simple fact you do not acknowledge – male and Female brains are constructed quite differently and it significantly impacts how we relate to other human beings. And, although alternate patterns of behavior, communication, and even data gathering can be learned, that does not negate the differences in our design, which is what the conversation is all about.

Both Peter and Paul recognize this in giveing starkly different instructions to men and women in dealing with their spouses. Men are to unconditionally agape love their wives and live with them “in an understanding way”. Women are to unconditionally respect their husbands and phileo love them. These instructions deal with our inherent, designed internal psychological and relational differences, and would have no value if we were all an androgynous bell curve humanity.

And don’t even get me started on hormonal differences, which strongly impact relational behaviors.

Now, as far as online conversations go, I agree that since all the “evidence” is not available about who you are talking to, it may be difficult to tell gender. After all, my wife won’t even have online conversations since she can’t be “face to face” with the other person and therefore can’t employ her uniquely female intuition.