Do You Have a Male or Female Brain?

Dear God that quiz goes on and on. I didn't see how some of the questions were relevant - are you an introvert, for instance.

I have a male brain apparently

Errol thinking of my family, I can think of only two with non-stem degrees and they are Male, all the other degrees are STEM both Male and female. To be fair I am not sure what my grandmother studied but she did become Mayor of her town in the 1950s.

One to forward to Gina Rippon then.

I'm on a phone Errol so can't figure out how to link to studies but try out the question on your family and friends.

The question being "Did you prefer maths or art at school" ... my family, regardless of sex, would all be maths. DH only has one maths A level whereas DD and I have two apiece. Wider family is mostly STEM, no discernible difference by sex. Friends and colleagues likewise.

There may be a question of what you were allowed to like at school - the 'stem in girls schools' phenomenon gives a strong hint on how that operates.

Obviously always. Hardly surprising when they’ve been set such a manly example by a mother with a degree in a man topic. Go and find the Harry Enfield ‘women know your place’ clips and play them on a loop.

There is no sexed brain. Stuff like this should be taken down.

Thingybob - I went to an all girls school and loved science and maths. Never crossed my mind that this wasn’t a girls subject as so many of my friends studied science as well. I did a physics degree myself. The school prided itself on regularly getting better O level results in maths than the local boys school. I don’t believe in stereotypes.

It’s such nonsense. My teenage daughters have perfected the technique of never seeing any dirty plates. My nephew however is extremely tidy. Does this mean they are boys and he’s a girl?

It gave me a male brain, which doesn’t surprise me, I can do manly useful shit which would just be too much for one with an inferior female brain.

Joking aside, as a female with adhd, I noticed a strong correlation between some answers and what are usually more typical presentations for boys with adhd versus girls, whom mostly tend to be more socially conditioned to minimise the symptoms/ outlets. So for me anyway it didn’t just stereotype gender, but neurodiversity too.

The point where I noticed the backlash against women's equality was the 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus' book. Whilst it was sexist claptrap Suddenly male colleagues could and would use it to undermine me and my ability to do the same job as them.

stereptype are based on observation and biolog

Do you believe that people observed that one nationality is stupid or subhuman and that’s how racism evolved?
That having legs that don’t work mean you are most likely deaf?
Clearly incorrect.
But it’s ok, sterotypes about women are totally justifiable?

'Your other half says you have to do the dishes'

Where's the answer 'why haven't you done them? Have you lost the use of your arms'?

What a pile of regressive shit.

A simple example would be the much higher uptake of STEM subjects by girls in all-girl schools

This quiz isn't determining whether you have a male or female brain but whether we were socialised as male or female.

*Psychology not physiology

Did you prefer maths or art at school, pink or blue, go hunting or stay in camp? These are nothing to do with female physiology and everything to do with society. Maths/blue/hunting are all female roles/stereotypes in different geographical or historical cultures. Long hair, heels and makeup has been the height of masculinity at times.

I'm on a phone Errol so can't figure out how to link to studies but try out the question on your family and friends.

i don't think there's male/female brain.

^ Asking "Did you prefer maths or art at school" will not give any single clue as to whether your brain released a flood of testosterone on reaching puberty or not.

But that simple question would enable you to be correct well over 80% of the time if you are guessing someones sex without meeting them.^

Do you have a shred of evidence to support that remarkable assertion?

I took a look at the quiz... relationship status choices single, something else I can't remember and 'taken' ....wtf?

Stereotypes have evolved from observation and biological psychology

Stereotypes have evolved from observation of what people do, in the constraints of societies which have at least since the dawn of agriculture been structurally sexist.

'Are you good at finding keys' is much more 'are you the one whose time and effort is least valued so you are expected to waste it finding stuff for people who CBA'.

I have a female brain! I never knew that before. All those years of being female and I had no idea...

Sorry Qcng but I disagree with your reasoning

liking pink or finding your keys or being submissive is sexist stereotyping and nothing to do with being female

Stereotypes have evolved from observation and biological psychology

The brain is "plastic". You learn from your environment. The brain is not inherently built with a preference for

Yes of course the environment and nurture shape us all but I would argue that we are all born with unique personalities due to genes and the brains hard wiring. New born babies are not all identical but have different abilities, likes and dislikes. If our brains are plastic then why do so many GNC children refuse to adopt the stereotypes expected of them?

Asking "Did you prefer maths or art at school" will not give any single clue as to whether your brain released a flood of testosterone on reaching puberty or not.

But that simple question would enable you to be correct well over 80% of the time if you are guessing someones sex without meeting them.

My position has always been that men and women are (on average) very different psychologically. Yes there is a big overlap in the middle but if you are born one of the female outliers who is more boyish than 90% of the boys, or a male outlier who is more girly than 90% of the girls, life is going to be hard and there won't be many of your own sex that you can befriend or identify with. We need to support and celebrate those children as members of their biological sex not tell them they are in the wrong bodies nor push them to conform to stereotypes.

I am one such outlier and the test predictably said I was a man although the mirror, my children and grandchildren would dispute that.

These ridiculous tests are a pile of sexist crap.

I think we can agree on that.

First question:
Kids play with what they're given and what their friends have.

Second question:
I guess the Mr Carsons of this world have a woman's brain? Oh, no, I see, that only applies to housewife, not distinguished head of household.