Comments by "libertas habet pretium" (@mylovelyman2) on "FORA.tv" channel.

  1. This does not, of course,exclude the role of other determinants of human behaviour. eg: Cognitive, social and environmental factors. Individual differences are highly influential. I also fail to see how bringing to people's attention the fact that the two sexes do use differing communication stratergies causes men and women harm. As with most relational problems, it is usually due communication breakdown.
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  2. :) Well you have not sat with many therapists!
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  3. Sexist because you don't like the patterns of behaviour he has identified. It would be quite moronic of any research group to make a claim about behavioural patterns and claim them to be universal, there is too much variation within the human gene pool. However it would be equally moronic to claim that there are not overwhelming statistical trends which demonstrate a strong physiological basis for behaviour of different genders.
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  4. Sorry dont' quite follow that one :)
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  5. "Neither do I know people who have communication problems with the opposite sex." If you are really serious about that quote then I think you should be giving a lecture on it. In my limited life experience at 32 years of age I have to say I have come across countless relational problems that find their origin in poor communication. You will always find exceptions to any trend, that does not mean the trend does not exist, it just means you have found an exception.
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  6. My position all hinges on what you mean by " fixed". I am afraid that there is overwhelming neurophysiological evidence to back up the claim that, on a Statistical level ( emphasis mine),for a normal distribution a given human sample that there are significant differences in behavioural responses of the two sexes to a number of different stimuli. See Work on cortisol release and oxytocin release in the studies on SAM pathway and HPA axis for different genders.
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