That BBC article is just rubbish. I'm deeply suspicious of any of this 'evolutionary psychology' stuff that attempts to 'prove' gendered differences in thought processes (and I wonder what she has to has to say about racial differences in thought processes, hmmm).
It's a chicken-and-egg question. If MRI scans show womens' brains operating differently to men, is that because they've already been socialised in such a manner as to cause the differences, or do the differences cause the socialisation? If the former, then it doesn't prove much at all, and the latter just shows a determinism that is sexist in its political implications (and no doubt why when this woman speaks it upsets 'politically correct' people!).
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Date: 2008-Jan-29, Tuesday 13:44 (UTC)It's a chicken-and-egg question. If MRI scans show womens' brains operating differently to men, is that because they've already been socialised in such a manner as to cause the differences, or do the differences cause the socialisation? If the former, then it doesn't prove much at all, and the latter just shows a determinism that is sexist in its political implications (and no doubt why when this woman speaks it upsets 'politically correct' people!).
What a crock of shit, in other words.