<We poor males, for example, have wimpy, underdeveloped corpus callosa, while the female version is a veritable information superhighway, allowing the ladies' left and right brains to chat away unimpeded.>
That one seems odd to me. I don't believe it. Things need to have survival and reproductive benefit. What good is a diminished brain transfer link?
Neither am I convinced by this one: <This ability to calculate trajectories required a certain amount of adaptive neurological hard wiring for the basic mathematical concepts of distance, mass, force and velocity and integrals of the same - hence the difference in this regard between men and women, who (except for the three sigma females) did not evolve tossing blunt or pointy objects at rapidly moving hairy creatures >
A dog can jump in the air, running quickly, and grab a ball out of the air after watching it flying through some parabolic shape. I don't think that means it's doing maths.
When I play golf, I don't pull out my old physics and engineering stuff, though I did to explain to myself why in winter my big hits don't go very far on the full. Also why hitting into the wind makes the ball swerve a lot more than going downwind.
But a good golfer need not have a clue about that and has no need to do physics. Just whack the ball really straight and far and putt like a Zen master.
Neither do I agree with this theory:
<This is why when you are watching the Discovery Wings channel and your wife (not my wife, I know what I'm doing) comes into the room and yells "hey, lardass, fix the faucet!" you can not hear her, because your finely-adapted brain thinks it is stalking a saber-tooth cat and so tunes out all extraneous data, particularly those that arrive on the FVM >
While the symptoms are familiar, I think the cause is that males and female humans should live a bit differently. There is definitely creative tension in the management of remote controls, the need for fresh flowers, clean bedding, changes of clothes, aesthetic surroundings and so on. A friend in London told me that his mother warned his wife to be that she would need to keep him on the straight and narrow because he'd be happy to sleep under a hedge in a sack. Standards would need to be maintained.
Males should perhaps live together is a shed. Women could play house together and have the nice stuff. Just as happens with 10 year old boys and girls. The Club Hut is not a sterile environment. It includes explosions, toxins, flammable materials, missiles and injury of various types. Girls playing house should be a warning to all prepubescent males about what lies in store for them. They seem to get amnesia during adolescence. Come to think of it, the girls should note 10 year old boy behaviour and remember that when they are 20. They get amnesia too.
Then again, living in separate huts might get unpleasant after a few decades. Perhaps there's a happy median somewhere. When Hans Blix has finished finding the Yeti in Iraq, he could come and find the happy median in the battle of the sexes.
People have been struggling with that one for millennia, so I doubt I'll solve it today. Since it's such a great day, I think I'll leave that one for now and go do some real bloke physics and maths on the golf course.
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