[lit-ideas] Re: The Female Brain, or, why women talk so damned much

  • From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Judith Evans <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 17:03:46 -0230

I would have said that your remark is terribly sexist and, hence, politically
incorrect, but with all the recent scholarship into biological differences
between our two kinds of brains, what does "political incorrectness" mean
anymore? 

Empirical research does seem to suggest that women, from a very early age, are
much more interested in dialogue and discussion than are men. So the question
clearly is: should we have more women in political decision-making or men? How
about philosophical decision-making? 

Walter C. Okshevsky
Society for Aphroditic and Hermaphroditic Epistemology
Catholic University of America
Washington, D.C.


Quoting Judith Evans <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> > Would anyone wish to speculate as to whether any of this
> empirical research
> > entails or suggests any differences between how men and women
> learn to
> > philosophize or come to appreciate the value of philosophy to
> their personal
> > and professional lives?
> 
> women learn it by discussion, men need to have it thumped into
> them -- or offered sexual incentives -- yes?
> 
> Judy Evans, Cardiff
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