Scientists decoding the human genome have discovered that just 78 genes separate men from women. Only 78?
So Europe is a country and they speak French there, says the bimbo. No wonder then that women can't read maps, or... can they? But, mind you, men can't do two things at the same time, can we?
If you want to read a light-hearted research into the genetic differences between women and men make sure you check out this page, which features some brilliant entries by readers. Then send in your comment either saying which remark was the funniest or feel free to contribute by giving some other differences that you think haven't been mentioned in the article.
For some fun, be sure to check out this video. It features some just slightly different habits when it comes to having a shower.
Are we really like that at all? Next time I have a shower I'll refrain myself from doing those things I usually indulge in...and you'd better, too.
Bye, lads and lasses.
29 comments:
interesting comments and video about difference between man and women, im agree with part of them, not especially with the video ones..., but yes with the most comments of the people, there are ones really goods and funnies , i think that man and women personality are really differents and are guided and focused in a completely differents things, are ones who are really very clear, for example....mans usually are more agressive in general, women are more talkative...and have a better entonation when they speak, man think less they acts ...and women think much more what they are going to do.., i think too that women have more changeable personality, i think too that women think more in their future than man , and nowadays none of them want to live in a very close relationship, i think, and for driving, i really think that man usually have more skills but women are better drivers because they know they are risking they life....and i never write something in the mirror!well, i just wake up now, i havent much more in my mind, im going to walk through the mountain, see you soon ......JAVIER CORERA L GROUP
It`s funny. Generally speaking, men and women are very diferent, but it`s great, because if not what a couple would be without arguments about housework? It`s a joke. Each other must respect the other if not we have a problem. We have to try to learn new things and to share them. I like to be a woman¡ Encarna
I cant understand how a group of women are able to stay chatting in a bar barely drinking untill midnight.
However, we dont need speak with our friend if we are drinking, and we dont need to be thirsty.
Good and witty comments!! I laughed a lot!!
There are some comments that are gospel truth but I think that women are not as complicated as men think and men are not as simple as we think. Or may be not?...
In any case not so far away, somebody sent me those useful guides to understand women and men.
USEFUL GUIDE TO UNDERSTAND WOMEN´S LANGUAGE
NO= YES
YES= NO
MAY BE= NO
You´ll see… = If you do it, I´ll kill you…
I´m sorry, but… = I´m going to do what ever I want.
You decide = but do what I say
You´re free to do what ever you want = But you´d better not!
Do what ever you want = but you will pay dearly
No, I´m not angry = Of course, I´m really angry, stupid!
Are you asleep? = don´t go to sleep
You´re so affectionate tonight = I don´t want to have sex,pain!
Am I fat? = Tell me that I´m really gorgeous.
Switch off the light = I´ve got cellulitie.
I want to change these curtains = and the carpets, and the paint, and the furniture…
This kitchen is so small… = I want a new house.
Do you love me? = I´going to ask you for something…
How much do you love me? = It´s going to cost you a lot of money.
We´ll need …= I want…
We must speak = I need to complain about something
I don´t think we talk enough = You agree with me
USEFUL GUIDE TO UNDERSTAND MEN´S LANGUAGE
I´m hungry = I´m hungry
I want to sleep = I want to sleep
I´m tired = I´m tired
Let´s speak = I´m trying to impress you soof you´ll think that I´m a deep and meaningful man, and you agree to have sex with me.
You look tense, do you want a massage? = First I caress you, and then I want to have sex with you.
Would you like to dance? = I want to have sex with you.
Would you like to go to the cinema? = I want to have sex with you.
Would you like to have dinner with me tonight = I want to have sex with you
Shall I call you on Friday? = Iwant to take you to my house and have sex with you.
(Shopping) Yes, you look really nice: Catch it once and go on from here!
You look so nice: you´re really buff.
What´s the problem? I don´t understand the tragedy.
What´s the matter? Which self-invented phsychological trauma have you got today?
Are you hungry? = I don´t think that we are going to have sex tonight
I´m bored : Do you want sex?
I love you too = Ok? Are you happy? Can we start having sex, yet?
Have fun!! See you soon!
Gemma Larrañaga 1st Advanced L
Hi mates!!
It's funny to find all these differences between man and women. But also, I think there are a lot of topics that aren't other thing than that. But others, generally speaking, are true, like this boy that says that men speaking in sentences and women in parragraphs (lol!). I also find really funny the guide of understand both sex languajes that Gemma writes, I laugh a lot.
The unavoidable conclusion we could take out of all of this topic it´s just we are different but at the same time very similar.
Group N Inés
Hi Everybody!!
I think this topic is very funny and we can be speaking about it for a long time, but we will never get an agreement...
Regarding the shower's video, I've enjoyed a lot, I haven't recognised me exactly, but some of the things are true.
About the 78 differences, most of them are funny and very interesting. If I have to mention one, for example the next: "Men speak in sentences. Women speak in paragraphs". I'm totally agree. In general, when one woman is going to tell a history, we speak during several minutes and we offer a lot of details. Men use to tell the same history with a few words. They omit a lot of important points. I think it's one of the advantages of our better communication capacity, is it?
See you tomorrow.
Blanca Palacios, 1st Advanced.(M Group)
Palma Tocón, 1st. advanced, group M.
Hi mates! From my point of view, most of these comments about the differences between men and women are product of chauvinism behaviour. But, I really think that men have simpler mind than women. Besides, women usually have an emotional behaviour because of the ancestor. At prehistoric times, women used to care of children, prepared meals, and that made them to have an emotional intelligent that only few men have. On the other hand, I’m aware of some behaviour that I don’t know why, but that women and men tend to repeat. For example, about replacing the toilet paper, why men don’t replace the toilet paper and they wait for women to do it? Or, about going to the toilet, why women usually go together to the toilet?
Anyway, I think that most men tent to live in a comfortable way when they share their lives with a woman, first they show hers to be very independent but, when they live together, you can see that everything was false and they tent to do as less as possible at home, I refer, specially, about housework! I’m not sure if it is because of they think that women do housework better than theirs or if it is because they use a strategy of doing things badly in order of avoid house working.
In conclusion, I think that most differences between women and men are cultural, some genetic differences about strength but definitely not, about capacity or ability.
Ah, sorry if I've caused any troubles to somebody with my comments. My opinion is said in general, maybe, determined by my personal experience.
Hello everyone!
Genre differences... yes, there are, and I've enjoyed laughing at reading them.
I specially like this one that could summarize the way of thinking and acting of each one:
"Women eat curry if they like it. Men eat curry to prove they can."
Ok, jokes are jokes. However, I think that generalization never could reflect the wide rage of acting of people. For every comment on the web, there are examples (think about persons around you) that break the "generally speaking".
In my opinion differences are marked by the own personality, more than by the genre.
Is the reason why I don't really love to take it out on this subject. And more when generalization turns into stereotypes, because is hard to break them.
Let's try to learn and enjoy the differences!
Ainhoa (M)
78 differences between men and women… ( some comments and thoughts )
Hi all mates!
An interesting and polemic issue today! Isn´t it?.
I was reading this thoughts and video and apart from the funny things offered as a provocation, there are some others to have in account, many of them are myths, stereotypes of habits, topics or cultural conditions. Many of them could represent a handicap to go over in future societies…
1st myth:
Research about colour is made mainly by men as Newton – Hicketier – Munsel – Oswald - Itten or Goethe - …etc no women were included or involved at that time in the research I have not notice of that., and those men were high capable to appreciate subtile differences of colour.
2- toilet roll replacement?
- anyone can do it!
3- Opinion about curtains?
- Only curtain sellers? It´s a beginning of something , brave!
4 – Value ?
5 - Secrets?
6- Not instinctively, maybe is a tendency to be prudent. We use to read patient information leaflets or directions for use about chemicals etc…
7 – To impress their mates like a cock? Mmm!...
8 – Effortlessly ? or Courtesy?
9 – We do shopping and drinking as well and we don´t have to be proud of it, but we do many other things too! We can appreciate life and anesthesia of course!
Well .. Sorry! - I don´t want to continue this way…
I will play for a while with my airgamboys!
- About the points … some of them are reffered to language uses, many about cultural (wrong? ) uses 8 or abuses)..
Our brains are anatomically – chemically – hormonally and psychologically different!
- Statistics about differences between men and womenare focusedon thinking- feeling and behaving into a “normalized society, i.e. they not take in account many differences and qualities of the called minorities… We all have a feminine side and a masculine side too and there is not a problem with that…
- Many years of cultural dominance do not disappear easily!
- Feminity myths and masculinity myths are created both of them by the opposite one…
- we have to take in account generational changes and habits as well as different back grounds…
- We found: very masculine men/ women –average masculinity/feminity – low masculinity/fe minity
- Very feminine men / women – average m/f – low m/f
- political correctness and selfvictimism…
- cultural and religious backgrounds… judeo- christianity myth.
- The welfare state we should thin on it
- Modern individualism and feminist capitalism- if we can say so – has allowed the birth of the independent woman, no longer under dependence of husband!.
- We live in a high - sexualized society
- I like men that Know (how) to cry
- Women are not sexualized by fashion. We have a wide registry to use clothes from seductive to butch women with no problem, all registries are possible, but men have to suffer “vestments conventions” in an upper grade.
- Women suit is a kind of “visual interest center” men suit is a uniform
- Aesthetic and creative impulse of men vestments is smothered from the industrial revolution to now
- Men uniform (corporative suit soldiers – workers – priests…others.) hide their sexuality
- Not all women / men are the same
- Western culture is a tomb for emotion we bottled –up by logic and reason
- “Bourgueois decorum” is extended now to working class repressing the self expression on masculinity and femminity and extending a moral anxiety (Moralism and ignorance together )
- Taboo of the male nude representation is not still overcome in spite of nudist – see Robert Mapplethorpe -
- We have to have in account modern behaviour from feminism to homosexuality - queer– heteroflexibility too .
Play and playing is a way to create new possibilities!
We all have same rights!
I believed in full self expression!
About the video... no comments! (All is included at the top)
Have you seen the last Heineken ad on TV? A couple is showing their new flat to their friends. All the women are absolutely amazed whith the huge wardrobe packed with clothes an loads of shoes when they hear the men group yelling at something...an enormous room-fridge plenty of cold beers.
Different interests,different targets, different ways of selling.
It's a funny commercial, don't miss it!
... I continue... sorry
Just to say that 78 differences are based on hetero society before ours and in spite we live in a very complicated world full of rules there are no rules about life but many metafhors and meta languages to get confuse us on phisys and reality...I think the important way is communication...
See You soon!
I forgot to sign the text above
Aurora Suárez 1st.Adv. L froup
Everobody is different.
I am nurse, and the president of the nurses in NAvarra is a... man!!!
Of course, I have never voted in the elections. I don´t know how many nurses are in Navarra but be sure that only a few of them will be a men.
The truth is that men are in the best positions of the power..and if we want to change it, we will have to do something.
Nurses of navarra,let´s change our president. I hope he won´t be in this blog..
Bye. Aitziber.
Come on people!!
Of course, that women and men have some different genes, but,..do you really think that only these different genes, make women and men have so particular behaviours?
I haven't scientific results, but in the vast mayority of people, I am sure, that some factors like education, culture, childhood, habits of close people (relatives, friends, etc,...) and society are what lead to a person behaves in a one or another way in a determined situation in her life. After that, this person face with the same actuation the same situation or not. It'll depend on the obtained answer the first time.
I think people learn to do things in their life of similar ones.
After that, if women don't read in a good way maps, or if men don't speak as much as women because they don't need to communicate their things to other people, are topics which keep our society amused.
Women and men of course have a lot of differences, but in my opinion, they are more about appearance that about character when they are brought up in the same environment, with the same education, the same habits, etc,...
See you!!
Cristina, N group
Good evening, mates!!
I only can say one thing: I AM A MAN!!
I´m more agressive than women, I don´t think very much about my future,I detest marriage and children, I drive as the men, I have beer and whisky with my male friends and talk about Formula 1, and another things you must´n kwnow....
In clonclusion... I have a male brain in a female body!!! jajajaja
But I´m happy!!
See you tomorrow.
Carmen, 1st Adv. Group L
Hi!
I´ve really enjoyed the phrases of BBC News (specially "Women can smell old trainers at 100ft, men have to hold them to their nose" ha! ha! ha!) and our mates´comments are also very witty.
It´s difficult not to fall in some clichés. When we talk about it, we tend to generalize about supposed "men" skills and "women" skills.
I think women and men are different by nature (why not? our feelings can be very different in a same situation). It would be boring if all of us were similar, wouldn´t it?. But the education has a hugh importance to get fair relationships between men and women (or between men and men or between women and women).
My little experience says that women are more intuitive than men and men calculate better the distances to park. About housework, men don´t see the dirt as quickly as women (well, they don´t see or maybe, they don´t want to see? ha ha).
We are different but each person is also different from another one (without taking into account her/his sex).
See you tomorrow!
Eukene-1st M
78 different genres, but what they have not told us is that men have at least 10 genres that are in connection with SEX. Nevermind what are you talking about or how you are feeling. They try to solve everything with SEX. What to talk for? Let our bodies speak!
Nai. L group
Hi mates! I´m Mikel (Group M).
I think that the video is very funny. In my opinion, some of the features of the behaviour of men and women in the bathroom are true, although in the video are exaggerated.
About the differences, I´ve enjoyed myself reading them. Some of them are really good.
See you!
It's a funny video. I wonder, why are men still valued more than women in our society?
In my opinion, when men resolve problems or situations they are normally harsh while women are calmer.
I'm in my early fifties and when I started to study at the university, i was the only woman in my class, the percentage of women in total at the school was less than 1%. When I began to work I was the first woman in the deparment of a big company which women weren't colleagues, they were objects to observe. So, I had to work hard because I had a handicap, now I can say that i know men like I know the palm of my hand, je, je..i have to tell you that I've been very lucky because my best male friend when surrounded by women he reffers to everyone including himself "todas", in Spanish the correct form would be "todos" because the masculine ending "o" dominates the language.
gloria imaz M group
The comments and video are really funny, and from my point of view some of them are absolutely true, specially the readers´opinions. But I would like to know how much differences are caused by genes or in contrast, if this situation is the most logical consequence of a society with too many roles.
In my opinion, men and women are not so different as we are used to think... But the sex battle has an appeal which is difficult to forget. Who could say that he/she has never complained about the opposite sex. Nobody??
It is a well-known entertainment in the whole world.
In spite of this, we cannot obviate that there are more men than women in high jobs, they don´t usually take care of housework, children and work all at same time, and all the differences between us.
However, women and men need to work for equality without fallen into the mistake of a revenge for all the past macho society´s mistakes.
I think we have improve our lifes, haven´t we?
Hi mates!
There is no doubt about men and women have different brains, and this can affect the way we behave ourselves.
But I think our diferent behaveour in life has more to be with the way we have been educated than the way we have our brains. As society, we belive sexist customs have been extingued, but we are still educating girls and boys in a different way.
I don´t find any avantage in making our language absolutely tedious, talking always to "ciudadanos y ciudadanas"... I think that politicians should leave that silly things and take real conscious about the sexist education that still today causes many problems to women.
Women, is it just worth the hassle?
I meant, we have to remember every word we have said because “Anything you say can and will be used against you in a…” an argument. Actually this is the reason lead us to remain silent, we are waiting for an attorney. Of course YES and NO are the best answers to any question.
Shall you take an alcoholic out for have a drink? Then why you carry us on shopping, and force us stay ages on the corridor of changing rooms. We are going to ogle, we are hunters, it’s genetic. I’m sure we are not there because we are good matching colours.
Last year I forgot my birthday why should I remember your mother’s birthday…
Of course, all of this is just for fun and I know I’m not all there.
Javier G
I have read all comments about difference between men and women, and after that, what could I say? Watch the video:
THE SIMPLE TRUTH
http://www.tu.tv/videos/men-vs-women-the-differences
Miren, 1st advanced, group L
hi! I think that everything is told, buy I want to add another different:
When men communicate they’re concerned with conveying information and establishing status. When women communicate they’re concerned with conveying information and building connections. There’s a study that shows that when men have a success, they attribute it to their own abilities. When they’re not successful, they tend to attribute it to external factors. The opposite is true for women. When women have a failure, they tend to attribute it to their own shortcomings. And when they succeed, they tend to link it to external factors, such as teamwork and luck.
Hi!!
I have been reading the differences between women and men in bbc's page and I have laughed a lot!!!Maybe some of the comentaries are a little bit exagerated but generally speaking they are true!!!And I like it!In my opinion, if every body will behave in the same way the days will be extremely boring. It is true that the differences depend on the person and not on the gender but I think that the gender has a lot to say in most cases. Anyway, it's funny making a reflexion about this and realizing about our 78 differences...
Arantza (Group I)
Hi!!
From my point of view, it´s obvious that there are differences between men and women.
I´m not particularly feminist, that´s why I won´t never understand the tough stance that lots of women have taken about expecting to remove those differences. It´s imposible to create this type of society because men and women´s fisical conditions are different, for example, men are stronger, which implies that they are able to do some jobs that women aren´t. Consecuently, both of them have their own aptitudes to take advantage of and the most important thing we have to consider is respect of each other.
MAIDER (GROUP I)
Hello everybody!
Well, it's been a long time, surely everything is already been said, but I do think there's a pair of short differences nobody's talked about:
Men say "I need that", and they buy it; women say "I may need that someday", and they keep it for years.
Scientists should unveil, women's eye can see a 20% bigger amount of colours than men's eye; not to talk about the 40% bigger amount of colour names that women know.
When they first see them, park places never seem to be too small for men, but they never seem to be big enough for women.
Women don't look for things, they find them; men don't look for things.
Women have the decorate gene; men have the putting things together gene.
There are two points of view about being unfaithful: men think they have stolen another man's woman; women think, another woman has stolen their husbdand.
Juan, 1st advanced G.
I thing tahat the best advantage abaut being a man is that they don´t care abaut things. They never think abaut their own lifes and feelings and the worse isuue that they can have is not be able to see the next football match.
oh my god!I would want to be a man!
I´m agree with the majority of the things that I´ve read although I would like to remark some of them.
Really it´s true that men and women are different physical and emotionally but the education is most important element that makes bigger this difference, whether at school or at home and through tv programs. So the adults have to be conscious of which want to learn young people. For example if we want to learn some housework and we usually aren´t doing it, how are they going to do? we won´t be a good model! We have to think about it if we want to change our society
Hi!
Well... I think this is a really interesting matter, the differences between men and women.
There's no doubt about it: we are different (and many scientific researches say that). But it's also true that there's a lot of stereotypes about the gender thing.
As someone said before, we are genetically different, but we are also brough up in a different way, definitely.
The way we behave is mostly influenced by our education, culture and environment. And a good example of this is the behaviour of women in an occidental country or in a islamic conuntry. They're very different.
A man has to behave like a man and a women has to behave like a women, and this can be different depending on the society we live in (stereotypes and roles).
See you!
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