Happy New Year, College Fix readers. I want to start out 2014 with a shocking piece of news (cough, cough).
Are you ready? Here it is: Men and women are different.
This shouldn’t be news, really, but in these days of rigorous adherence to the doctrines of gender theorists, radical feminists, and liberal social scientists, it’s actually a controversial statement to say that there are major, inherent, biological and neurological differences between men and women.
Something regular folks know simply by common sense, is “controversial” in the wacky world of the liberal elite.
A new report out of the University of Pennsylvania school of medicine shows that the differences between men and women’s brains are profound, especially when you consider how connections between different parts of the brain are wired between hemispheres.
The Ivy League university details some specifics of the study in a recent press release:
In one of the largest studies looking at the “connectomes” of the sexes, Ragini Verma, PhD, an associate professor in the department of Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues found greater neural connectivity from front to back and within one hemisphere in males, suggesting their brains are structured to facilitate connectivity between perception and coordinated action. In contrast, in females, the wiring goes between the left and right hemispheres, suggesting that they facilitate communication between the analytical and intuition.
“These maps show us a stark difference–and complementarity–in the architecture of the human brain that helps provide a potential neural basis as to why men excel at certain tasks, and women at others,” said Verma.
For instance, on average, men are more likely better at learning and performing a single task at hand, like cycling or navigating directions, whereas women have superior memory and social cognition skills, making them more equipped for multitasking and creating solutions that work for a group. They have a mentalistic approach, so to speak.
Past studies have shown sex differences in the brain, but the neural wiring connecting regions across the whole brain that have been tied to such cognitive skills has never been fully shown in a large population…
Men and women are different. Groundbreaking! Earth-shattering! Astonishing! Also something any parent of both a boy and girl could tell you by experience–no brain scans or fMRI’s required.
I remember arguing with a feminist classmate of mine in college about this issue. I asked her why she couldn’t admit to the obvious–that there are fundamental differences between men and women, and that that’s OKAY!
Her answer was that admitting such innate differences would open the door for others to say that differences in outcomes for men and women were due to biology rather than political oppression or social injustice.
In other words, she wouldn’t admit the obvious–that men and women have important biological and neurological differences–because her political agenda wouldn’t allow it.
But any argument for “equality” or “social justice” that requires us to deny reality is not a very good argument.
Liberals are always telling us diversity is something to celebrate. But if you haven’t figured it out by now, differences between men and women is the one form of “diversity” liberals have no interest in celebrating.
For my part, I say thank God women aren’t exactly like men, nor men exactly like women. What a sorry world that would be.
Nathan Harden is editor of The College Fix and author of the book SEX & GOD AT YALE: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad.
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