Ambivalent

[nightrythm]

OK, so Fast Company has an article on women and electronics. It says some good things like “The biggest mistake we have seen is treating women like a special interest group with only post-design considerations like color and finish. We call this the ’shrink it and pink it’ approach. And, it’s offensive to most women.”

But then, the author goes and says: "According to the Femme Den Smarties, Larry Summers was right: women’s brains ARE different from guys’ and, frankly, figuring out how to hook up a router is harder for us." and "Men, literally, have more gray matter in their brains. That makes them better at specialized and focused tasks. Women, on the other hand, have more white matter. That’s the tissue that wires processing centers together. That means we rock at multitasking, and integrating functions, but figuring out the glitch with the WiFi can be a hurdle."

Seriously? Well, then I give up. Math is hard, let's go shopping.

Comments

[argentla.livejournal.com]

Such bullshit. I think stuff like that is the very definition of "junk science."

[silentbard69.livejournal.com]

Shit is this why I'm gay? Cause I think math is fun?????

[daeglan.livejournal.com]

Dude you girls need to chill out. It is not Junk Science. It is well documented science that men and women think differently. We evolved in different ways. Getting offended about it is silly and wasteful.

Men have a predisposition to think linearly. does this mean all men are such? No it does not it just means for men the bell curve between linear and nonlinear thinking is weighted more towards linear thinking. It is not any better or worse than nonlinear thinking just specialized for different tasks.

Women on the other hand have a predisposition to think more non linearly. Or are better at multitasking. Their bell curve is weighted more towards nonlinear thinking. They are better at such tasks. Women also tend to be better at communicating then men do.

Men and women evolved to do different things because it helped us as a species survive better. they are just 2 different modes of thinking. Neither one is superior overall. Just specialized for different tasks.

Nothing to get upset about. And I don't think the person is saying women should just give up and go shopping. I think they are saying that the male centric design theory is flawed. Of course what I am seeing here is you girls getting upset because someone suggested that women are different then men. Last I checked women are different then men.

[stacymckenna.livejournal.com]

"That means we rock at multitasking, and integrating functions, but figuring out the glitch with the WiFi can be a hurdle."

Or... it means we "intuit" the cause for the glitch in nanoseconds without needing the three hours of linear thinking/testing to do it. It's all about the application of the strengths/skills.