Men.
I am a woman raised by a female dominated household, with my
baby brother as the only Y chromosome- unless you count the family dog. I have
grown up with boys as my friends since the awkward age of 13. In my English 151
class we had many discussions about the male and female natural characteristics.
I always found these traits interesting to think about.
What I want to focus my attention is on the biological
differences and how they may affect our human behavior. I believe that saying
women like shopping and men like sports is stereotyping the genders. These
stereotypes are usually also dependent on cultural settings. Although I do want
to focus on men in my current location (Lincoln), I want to discover what is
attributed to their physical make-up.
Below is a link to a report that talks about some of the theories being investigated currently by gender psychologists. It can give you a bit of an insight into what I am thinking directing my attention towards.
For example, the male body is fit to build muscles, while a female’s
body is fit to store fat for future children. This biological difference causes
men to be, generally, a stronger gender. How does this strength in men affect
them? Could aggression be associated with this different body make-up?
I do not want to identify stereotypical gender roles or any
kind of societal created male gender qualities. These generalizations anger me
and do not interest me in the slightest. I want to strip away what the context
has done to different genders and focus on the truly basic natures.
Below is a very funny, and quite accurate video. This is a video by a marriage counselor, who is highly trained in the differences in the wiring of male and female brains. Of course, he is created a comical sense to the whole thing, bu it actually has factual information behind it.It focuses on the multitasking, interconnected brains of women vs. the focused individually brain of men. I find it interesting.
Works Cited:
http://thebioblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/genetic_male-252x252.gif
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P77JnDHUw6g
http://www.psychlotron.org.uk/newResources/developmental/AS_AQB_gender_BioBasics.pdf
