Pink brains and blue brains

[minniebear]

So everything in me believes there is no such thing as a girl brain or a boy brain, and it bugs me a bit when family stereotype based on gender (I have two girls: girls are better behaved and easier to raise, boys are more interested in playing with toy cars and better at throwing, as examples).

Can anyone hit me with some facts to back up what I intuitively believe to be true (that gender differences such as those listed above are down to socialisation rather than biology)? Or am I wrong? I just want to feel I have it right in my own head. Im confident in the way I'm raising my girls and am aware of (and trying to avoid) gender stereotyping, and I'm not planning to rant and rave at the next person to bring all this up. I just want to better educate myself.

I am sure you are right MOstly
The real message seems to be that when something tells you the person is not to be trusted, when the chill arrives like it did when he said "Joe's really Arsey", you are right, don't give them the benefit of the doubt - no matter whose friend they are or however they seemed before.

The more I read here the more it seems it is more likely than not that you can't trust a man, even one you know, once you are away from a bigger group.

That is all very interesting Woman1234, thanks.

Just ran across this interesting piece of information while doing something else and needed to put it down here quick before I forget!

'Several hypothalamic nuclei are sexually dimorphic; i.e., there are clear differences in both structure and function between males and females. The pattern of secretion of growth hormone (in the hypothalamus) is sexually dimorphic, and this is one reason why in many species, adult males are much larger than females.' (Wikipedia, Hypothalamus)

Can anyone sign post me to the science or explanation for why if a person is born with the wrong 'brain', ie a 'pink' brain in a 'blue' body, why this 'pink' brain - brain, not body glands elsewhere - would be secreting blue sexually dimorphic hormones?

Just caught up with this thread. Oh, Monkey, that sounds so distressing. Dreadful. The sense of unreality must be hard too - what's real, what's nightmare. I'm glad you feel better for sharing it. Thank you for doing so.

And M0stly, that sounds so scary. And horrible. But didn't you feel a sense of achievement once you'd finally got him out the door? My own memory of the experience was greatly helped by feeling I had outwitted the bastard, just as you and my friend did.

I don't know Rumbling, but I am not a scientist. What you mention is interesting to know.

Am I right in thinking you may be saying that the idea of a pink brain in a blue body might only be psychological? Or, have I misunderstood?

Apropos of 'Blue Brai upbringing for 'Pink" people, I read to day that Jung-un the North Korean leader has an army of top shot women ready to fight.

Rumbling is referring to part of your brain that regulates hormones, at least I think so. I may have got this all wrong, and someone will correct me. But if it's your hypothalamus (not your consciousness) that triggers puberty and the whole sexual dimorphic business then a brain can't possibly be in the wrong body. If it were you'd get little boys spontaneously growing breasts or little girls developing facial hair and broken voices.

Yes, I would agree.

Is there a part of the brain though, which looks different from the norm in scans, when people have the body dysmorphia which makes them think they are in the wrong sex body?