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New book: "The Male Brain" - more from the "men need fixing" department
Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2010-03-24 17:08
Video interview with the author here. Of course, men need fixing, and we are inherently flawed vis-a-vis women and we need to focus on "fixing" men relative to women. Our tendency to move to fix problems rather than emote about them is a big flaw that apparently needs fixing. She even uses the term "civilizing" when referring to men who are unfaithful to their mates. (Starts at time mark 1:48.)
"Civilizing".
As if to be civilized is equal to being faithful. So as in the examples they took (Tiger Woods and John Edwards), these men are by implication "uncivilized" since they are unfaithful. This would mean that John F. Kennedy was uncivilized. Indeed, most of our presidents have been uncivilized then, and virtually every man who has ever been a monarch has been uncivilized, and I wonder, would that also include the many female politicians and other kinds of leaders in history that also have been unfaithful to their mates? Are they also uncivilized?
Can you imagine how greeted a book written by a male researcher that had comparable criticisms of females, and how they need "fixing" to be more like men, and perhaps to be a little less conservative in their sexuality? Probably by violent protests.
Amazon.com sells the book here. The author's web site is http://www.louannbrizendine.com/. You can contact her here.
I also noticed she had a previously-published book entitled The Female Brain. I wonder if she suggests therein that women must be "civilized" for this or that reason, against their "natural inclinations"? And wow, just look at some of those comments on that book, too!
More junk science, promulgated by junk-mainstream-media.
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Men need to be fixed?!? If
Men need to be fixed?!? If it's true that men like to solve problems, that is take information and turn it into something manageable or usefull, and we discourage that then we just devolve from civility.
The problem solving type of thinking is fundamental to being civilized, we had to plan to build cities. We need institutions that meet the needs of masses of people. We need systems of behavior such as ethics and politeness, designed to lead people towards fairness and the ability to serve others.
We need to plan on how to raise our kid. To understand our kids we must figure in environment, stages of development, and understand how lessons are learned. In other words you need a sense of context and purpose not just feeling in the moment. Relationships require a level of rational and stable behavior. Sometimes you need to set aside your emotions or impulses for the sake of your partner and the relationship, also for the sake of honest evaluation and personal growth.
Lessening the value of problem solving and analytical thinking is a bad mistake. I wonder if the author thinks that men make better judges, politicians, scientists, planners and so on. And to answer the above commentary she probably used nice language for the women's book as apposed to the men are screwed up and have the obligation to change.
Blithering female idiot
She actually complains that her husband tries to solve her problems! This is the kind of pseudo-intellectual female that is destroying society - answers matter far more than comfort, not the other way round, but as long as she feels good that's all that matters!
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