Cheryl Schatz

gengwall #25 said,

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.

The main difference that I can see is in the area of multi-tasking.  It isn’t necessarily totally different thoughts but how we can connect things together so that women can talk from one subject to another to another and then back again while men typically stay on one subject at a time.  When I try to get my husband onto another subject too fast he tells me that he has to put the box away that has our last topic in it and open up another box.  He thinks in segments or in compartments and I, like many other women, am able to keep more than one subject open in my brain so that I can connect things together without getting confused.  I don’t have to shut down one thought before I start up another.

Make sense?