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This is The Rude Guy
[RG voice] Rich Zubaty
This is the last show, we PROMISED we’d do. Show number 52.
[RG voice] thought it would take a year to make them all… took more like two and a half.
It won’t be our last show.
[RG voice] But it’s gonna seem like it.
Because next month we’re gonna start posting reruns of earlier shows … two reruns a month, on the first and fifteenth of every month, for two years or so, unless nobody listens.
[RG voice] And when we record a NEW show, we’ll plunk it in somewhere, and shift the upcoming reruns back two weeks.
Today’s podcast is gonna be about the biological differences between men and women. Basically condensations and extracts from my book: What Men Know That Women Don’t. And it’s gonna be a long and difficult show, to absorb. In a nutshell, fifteen years ago, after a bitter divorce, I had a gut level reaction against the feminist dogma of the day, which stated, that men and women are exactly the same, except for how we’ve been raised. After ten years of marriage, to a feminist harpy, it sure sounded wrong to me. So I went to live in a Benedictine monastery near Tampa Florida, that had a small college and a big library right outside my monk’s cell, and took the job of cooking the evening meal for the monks, so I had all day long to study. Then I asked myself a simple question: what are the differences between men and women?
I applied this question… what are the differences between men and women? … across the multiple academic disciplines of biology, psychology, history, mythology, law and religion… and what I discovered was absolutely shocking. First off, it was obvious that the biggest BIOLOGICAL difference between men and women, is not what’s between our legs, but what’s between our EARS. Men’s and women’s brains are very very different, and thereby, the ways we perceive life are very very different. Furthermore, once I understood the biological differences between men and women, the psychological differences became so obvious I had to ask: given the underlying biology, how could it be any different? And with those two research areas under my belt, I looked into gender roles in history, mythology, law, and religion… and all those started to make perfect historical sense also. Right up until we got to modern, feminist-inspired, marriage and divorce law, which stuck out like a banana up your nose, and made no historical sense whatsoever… Anyway… each chapter of the book, cumulatively built on the previous chapter, but our entire human accumulation of gender knowledge, stands on the legs of biology. Understand the biological differences between men and women, and the rest all becomes clear. Why women like shopping. Why men are better drivers. Why women fuck around on their husbands. All of it.
So here then is Chapter One of What Men Know That Women Don’t. Biology and Physiology.
[bird?]
When you begin looking into the areas of biological differences between the sexes, two facts leap off the page and slap you in the face:
ONE) We are ALL women.
TWO) Our brain is a gonad, a sex gland.
The brain, often lumped in with the other organs, is, in fact, a gland. Actually it is a communion of glands, which secrete and respond to vast numbers of chemical and electrical fields, that suffuse the entire body.
And one thing we have found out for sure: the brain does not work the same way in men and women. The differences in brain sex first emerge in the womb.
During the first few weeks the fetus, including its gonads, appears to be unisex. But, between the 8th and 12th weeks, a fetus with male chromosomes, begins to produce testosterone, and other androgens which “differentiate” its masculine genitals, and later, its brain. A fetus with female chromosomes, because it’s exposed to much less androgen, continues to develop along female lines.
A person’s prenatal hormonal experience appears to be an especially strong influence on later behavior. A male rat will act like one, only if it has gotten the right amount of androgen, starting at the right time, and for the right duration, in the course of its development. If he hasn’t received the proper amounts of hormones, at the proper times, he will act like a female, even if he looks like a normal male.
Conversely, Robert Goy says, the evidence is “indisputable”, that excessive prenatal exposure to male androgen, can produce male gender-role behavior in females. And, Roger Gorski’s UCLA team found, that when testosterone is withheld by castrating rat pups, their brains, look like those, of females.
What does it all mean?
It means that, all things being equal, we would all come out female. It means that a male baby’s Y chromosome, induces the mother’s undescended testicles, to manufacture testosterone and other male androgens, that shape a male fetus’s gonads and brain, and launch him on a life course which is incomparable, and literally inconceivable, to the female of the species; and this process begins in the first weeks of existence as a zygote.
But most importantly it means, that males are not born, they are made. They are made by hormones which enlarge and reform the normal model brain, creating a greater right-brain capacity, and vastly different perceptual skills. And they are made by the sport and war and government and literature and legends of the older men, whose duty it is to initiate the younger men, into the formation of those values, which beget and sustain human life. Men do not just happen… Men must be activated, by hormones, and by the society of men. Men must be made, and if they’re not, what you get are men who act like women.
Strictly speaking, sex is not necessary for reproduction. It is conceivable that we could all reproduce by cloning, like some lizards do, except for one thing – Nature doesn’t want it that way. Nature has gone to great lengths to produce the male – that spontaneous, intuitive, athletic, sexually aggressive carrier, of a complementary gene package – that one who is more erratic, more creative and more vulnerable than the female.
Why did Father Nature go to all that trouble? My guess is, that it has something to do with speeding up evolution. Father Nature perceived that without this spontaneous, erratic male influence, the unfolding of life would be deadened and ossified, and society would have little chance of adapting to ice ages, floods, microbial epidemics and other terrestrial cataclysms. We would drown in our own pee. Therefore, enter the male, who is definitely talented, at moving society forward.
[bird]
Our brain is a sex gland. Sex means choice. Why else would the brain come in two flavors: male and female. We don’t have male lungs or female intestines. Something very deep is at work here.
It is known that the right hemisphere of the brain is the region associated with imagery, music, imagination, art, pure math, creativity, insight, the spiritual realms, and INTUITION. The left hemisphere processes language, logic, applied mathematics, scientific skills, the physical world, and REASON. It has been shown that the right brain is bigger in men than in women. That is, men are naturally endowed with a greater physical brain capacity for embracing the spiritual and intuitive and creative dimensions of life. Men are more spiritual and intuitive and creative than women. Clearly this is the exact opposite of what mass media propaganda, has led us to believe.
Men’s brains are, on average, 15% larger than women’s brains – about twice the difference in average body size between the two. But male brains don’t start out bigger. The brains of human babies are the same size until two or three years. After that male brains grow faster and larger, until age six, when full brain size is reached. Many researchers agree that this pattern reflects the fact, that the basic format of the brain is female, and that format is modified and enlarged when the male hormones kick in.
It is a fact that teenage girls whose mothers took male hormones during pregnancy have overall higher IQs. It is a fact that testosterone makes the brain less likely to fatigue. And it is a fact, according to Ruben Gur, that women’s brains, that are asleep, show as much neural activity, as men’s brains that are solving a difficult problem. Women are always “thinking”, processing something. They have trouble shutting their brains off, which is precisely what the gurus of inner peace tell us we must do. Shut our brains off. Women’s heads are caught inside the washing machine from hell – the one that never clicks off. It lurches from wash to rinse to spin dry and back to wash again, endlessly processing the outer garments of life, with detergents and fabric softeners, desperately bleaching the threads of existence, until some goofball comes along and kicks the goddamn plug out of the wall… That goofball is us.
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It is not only in brain size, but also in the actual physical composition, that great differences have been detected between males and females. According to Kathryn Phillips, male brains – with fewer connections across the corpus callosum (the thick bundle of nerves connecting the brain’s right and left hemispheres) – male brains, are more lateralized than those of females. This increased lateralization, so the theory goes, allows for greater right brain performance.
In her opinion, this accounts for males’ superior performance in visuospatial skills, like catching baseballs; and in my opinion it tips us off to a quickening of intuition, creativity, and spiritual qualities, in the male psyche. The Landing Strip of the Gods is in our heads, not somewhere off in Peru.
Greater right brain performance in boys, is corroborated by Moir and Jessel, who say that while both sexes are equal in their performance in two dimensions, boys four years old and up, perform better in three dimensional mindscapes. Men are more at home in multi-dimensional space. Some of us can experience the notion of ten dimensional space. The very thought fries most women’s circuits.
Everyone knows women are better with words than men. Women speak three times as many words per day as men do. Women use both sides of the brain when speaking. Men use only the left brain. The fact is, women THINK in words. They see the world through words. But men are different.
Men, are given to operating out of either one side of their brain, or the other. There are many things that men see and experience and feel, that do not fit readily into words. It doesn’t mean we’re dumb. It doesn’t mean we’re dullards with speech. It means we’re receptive to different things. We see the arced trajectories of arrows, and the curvature of airplane wings, and notice fishtails under the water.
If I tell my kids, “I happened upon a moment of Buddha consciousness standing on a street corner”, my son will say, “What’s Buddha consciousness?” and my daughter will say “What street corner?” I love my daughter, more than all the raindrops that fall on the Pacific Ocean in a thousand years, but notice from her answer, that one could easily be mistaken into assuming, that she knows exactly what Buddha consciousness is, and she just needs to pinpoint where to find it, when, in fact, she knows nothing about it at all, and therefore the words don’t even stick in her head… The point I am trying to make, is that her way into the situation is through what she knows, or might know. My son’s way into the situation, is through what he does NOT know. She wants to establish what she knows. And go from there. He wants to establish what he doesn’t know. And go from there. When pressed, a woman will express the opinion that whatever she doesn’t know is wrong or bad or dangerous… (this is what they call women’s intuition. More on this later.) My son is interested in the hidden miracles and opportunities present in that which he does not know. He wants to learn. She wants to establish where she is.
Can you see them 50,000 years ago? She wants to know if the firewood is dry. He wants to know what that black shadow lurking on the cliff is. Maybe a monster. Maybe his friend, blinded in an orgy of too much SEX, stumbling back to camp, with directions for how to find the lost tribe of nymphomaniac women – who NEVER complain about anything – on the other side of the mountain. He is not going to shoot the lurking shadow with his arrow, until he finds out for sure.
What a pair they make: the protector and the seeker. A bit of genetic genius going on here. Let’s enjoy the difference.
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