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January 06, 2005, 08:29:27 PM
This was in the paper today, and all us men had a good laugh at it :azn:

QuoteWomen who over-react to remarks about their body shape are only doing what comes naturally, a study has found.

Psychiatrists have located the part of the brain that 'lights up' when a woman's weight and size are under scrutiny.
They say it is the same area responsible for anger and fear - which could explain why women tend to take personal remarks so...personally.
The study suggests that they are born to be sensitive about their body image, while men are more rational :yes:

Words such as 'fat', 'overweight', and 'heavy' have an immediate effect on the area of a woman's brain programmed to take action over threats and emotionally negative experiences. :huh:

Such words have a different effect on men, triggering the part of the brain that deals with rational thought and problem solving. :afro:

Muahahahaaaa! :fugly:

Let battle commence ;)
Planning is an unnatural process - it is much more fun to do something.  The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. [Sir John Harvey-Jones]

Ashen Decay

#1
January 06, 2005, 10:07:39 PM
Finally, some research I agree with  :afro:
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Happiness is just a Flaming Moe away

canadian

#2
January 06, 2005, 10:54:25 PM
Have you ever stopped to think that this female method of responding to threats may be more sound than the way men are programmed to respond? If negative comments trigger fear... is it not possible that women may then find a way to improve on their shortcomings? Men, on the other hand, get all rational and just sit back and say things like "Well, it's just the way I am." [scratch, belch, fart]

Food for thought.  :cheesy:
If people stand in a circle long enough, they will eventually begin to dance. -- George Carlin

Walker

#3
January 07, 2005, 07:54:59 AM
Wait a minute, I resemble that remark... :huh:
"Lord, here comes the flood, we will say goodbye to flesh and blood. If, again, the seas are silent in any still alive, it'll be those who gave their island to survive. Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry."
Peter Gabriel.

Ed

#4
January 07, 2005, 08:34:03 AM
Quote from: canadian on January 06, 2005, 10:54:25 PM
Have you ever stopped to think that this female method of responding to threats may be more sound than the way men are programmed to respond? If negative comments trigger fear... is it not possible that women may then find a way to improve on their shortcomings? Men, on the other hand, get all rational and just sit back and say things like "Well, it's just the way I am." [scratch, belch, fart]

Food for thought.  :cheesy:

Nope, it just sounds like an irrational argument to me :fugly:  Don't worry though - apparently you're just responding to your programming ;)

See, women just get angry, fearful and tearful - then hit the cakes and go on a binge to make themselves feel better, whereas men figure out what they're going to do about it...if anything, because they know there's a good chance the woman is just being irrational again, and they're lookin gooood, despite what their other half's telling them :dance:

:hot:  >:( <--- Donna.  |  Blunt --->  :hidin:
Planning is an unnatural process - it is much more fun to do something.  The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. [Sir John Harvey-Jones]

Ashen Decay

#5
January 07, 2005, 10:47:35 AM
Simply, emotions are a double edged sword, too much and you'll suffer, too little and you'll suffer.
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Happiness is just a Flaming Moe away

canadian

#6
January 07, 2005, 12:27:10 PM
Okay. So it's all about balance, huh? I'll have to see how I feel about that...  :yess:

And, Blunt, here's what I think about your comparison of you and I:

:lipsrsealed:

See, I may be female, but I am also v e r y smart!  :evil:
If people stand in a circle long enough, they will eventually begin to dance. -- George Carlin

Neuromancer

#7
January 07, 2005, 01:22:11 PM
Quote from: canadian on January 07, 2005, 12:27:10 PM
Okay. So it's all about balance, huh? I'll have to see how I feel about that...  :yess:

And, Blunt, here's what I think about your comparison of you and I:

:lipsrsealed:

See, I may be female, but I am also v e r y smart!  :evil:


:cheers:


I like her ;)


Yes I am a writer, but my critics call me a typist.--Salem's Lot

canadian

#8
January 07, 2005, 01:56:57 PM
Thanks, Neuro.  :wub:
If people stand in a circle long enough, they will eventually begin to dance. -- George Carlin

Ed

#9
January 07, 2005, 03:04:33 PM
Neuro - you arse-kisser ::)

There's me trying to get a good battle of the sexes going, and you...you...you....

Tsk!  :P
Planning is an unnatural process - it is much more fun to do something.  The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. [Sir John Harvey-Jones]

canadian

#10
January 07, 2005, 03:50:05 PM
It appears to me, Mr. Blunt, that you are one helluva shit disturber.  >:(

S'okay. I kinda like the excitement! Talk about dark, huh?  :nk:
If people stand in a circle long enough, they will eventually begin to dance. -- George Carlin

Neuromancer

#11
January 07, 2005, 06:35:25 PM
Quote from: blunt on January 07, 2005, 03:04:33 PM
Neuro - you arse-kisser ::)

There's me trying to get a good battle of the sexes going, and you...you...you....

Tsk!  :P

Hmm never been called that before..  I do like the ladies though, ;) And have been called a bullshitter before

:D but...

*insert various chauvinist remarks here, that I am biting my toungue to keep from typing*

heh heh


Yes I am a writer, but my critics call me a typist.--Salem's Lot

Ed

#12
January 07, 2005, 06:44:25 PM
Quote from: canadian on January 07, 2005, 03:50:05 PM
It appears to me, Mr. Blunt, that you are one helluva shit disturber.  >:(

S'okay. I kinda like the excitement! Talk about dark, huh?  :nk:

Yes, it's kinda looking that way from where I'm sitting too. :o  Guess I'll just go crawl back under my rock then.... :lipsrsealed:

Neuro - glad to see you're back with the programme again :lol:
Planning is an unnatural process - it is much more fun to do something.  The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. [Sir John Harvey-Jones]

kimbly

#13
January 16, 2005, 05:37:24 PM
Since I have time today, maybe I can stir up some shit myself. IF there is indeed a part of the brain that responds negatively to INSULTS (doesn't seem so wierd) then I guess the actual physical response might be dictated by culture as well.  I'm from the "hood," as we say down here and we are programmed to respond to insults and threats with violence or threats of violence--which is the healthiest way, I know. :evil:

Like the time the guy who  called me a "stupid bitch" got sent across the room with a kick to the head...
I haven't actually had anyone call me fat, come to think of it. :/

I tried to spread the gospel in college to my middle- class girlfriends. It's hard, though. This world needs some more ass-kickin' :afro:

Say,  Canadian. Is that your REAL picture? It's kinda hot. :)

Ed

#14
January 16, 2005, 06:24:18 PM
Quote from: kimbly on January 16, 2005, 05:37:24 PM
Since I have time today, maybe I can stir up some shit myself. IF there is indeed a part of the brain that responds negatively to INSULTS (doesn't seem so wierd) then I guess the actual physical response might be dictated by culture as well.  I'm from the "hood," as we say down here and we are programmed to respond to insults and threats with violence or threats of violence--which is the healthiest way, I know. :evil:

Like the time the guy who  called me a "stupid bitch" got sent across the room with a kick to the head...
I haven't actually had anyone call me fat, come to think of it. :/

I tried to spread the gospel in college to my middle- class girlfriends. It's hard, though. This world needs some more ass-kickin' :afro:

Say,  Canadian. Is that your REAL picture? It's kinda hot. :)

Good job, fatty :fugly:

Waddaya say fellas?  Wi gatta gangsta chick in da hood, an she openin a big can a woop-ass  :/

;)
Planning is an unnatural process - it is much more fun to do something.  The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. [Sir John Harvey-Jones]

canadian

#15
January 16, 2005, 06:59:39 PM
That would be my real picture, kimbly, if my name was Denise Richards. [sigh] I'm just slightly less hot ...  :laughin:

Good to know we've got another tough babe on board. Need reinforcements from time to time with these guys ...  :hidin:
If people stand in a circle long enough, they will eventually begin to dance. -- George Carlin

Neuromancer

#16
January 18, 2005, 03:18:30 PM
Well I suppose I should point out a few things.

Kicking in a fight is like wearing lingerie.  It looks real good, but when it boils down to just leaves you open ;)

Also I suppose I could out some fruedian thing about a high kick exposing your womanliness, but I guess I will leave that be  :grin:

Well I dont know if that stirs up the pot at all.

Me?  I am a lover not a fighter.  If a woman wnats to fight with me?  I regale her  with poetry and candies.  Speak sotthing sweetness in her ear, until the night dissolves into a tangle of limbs, sweat and bedsheets.

Then I move and change my phone number ;)

Thats what I call revenge!!!



BTW... has anybody ever had make up sex?  I do not know if I am just weird, but fighting does not "put me in the mood."  Also doing the "one more time before we split up" thing never worked for me either.  Usually when it comes time to split up, the sex has been bad anyway.

Yes I am a writer, but my critics call me a typist.--Salem's Lot

canadian

#17
January 18, 2005, 03:31:37 PM
I have a saying, Neuro ... ex-lovers are like warmed up leftovers; not quite as good the second time around.  :P
If people stand in a circle long enough, they will eventually begin to dance. -- George Carlin

Ed

#18
January 18, 2005, 05:49:36 PM
Make-up sex, huh? :o  A touch of rouge, some mascara, eyeshadow and the oh so gauche lipstick for you then, Neuro :kiss:

Ewww, this place is getting weirder by the second :/  When I was envisaging a horror theme, I was hoping for more of an Edgar Allen Poe thing than Richard O'Brian :cry:

As for high-kicking women revealing their womanliness, I think I would probably stand there agog until beaten unconscious :afro: no problemo :azn:
Planning is an unnatural process - it is much more fun to do something.  The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. [Sir John Harvey-Jones]

Crabb

#19
January 24, 2005, 04:50:52 PM
Men, know your place.

Open our jars, get things from high up on cupboards and hope and pray we don't find a way to  open our own jars and get things from high up on cupboards.

You can offend women on many levels and offend men with one word- inadequiate, I had to ask my husband to spell that, god bless him.

canadian

#20
January 24, 2005, 06:11:49 PM
 :shocked: Wow, Cathy. And he still spelled it wrong ...
If people stand in a circle long enough, they will eventually begin to dance. -- George Carlin

Ed

#21
January 24, 2005, 06:42:21 PM
Yeah, I know we'll be in big trouble the day some idiot invents a vibrating cosh with an attachment that opens jam jars - but only if you can figure out how to work it :fugly: 

You'll cuss and bicker that it's not true, but if you haven't figured out the concept of using stepladders for getting stuff down off high cupboards yet.... :afro:  (and dikshunrees) heheh :azn:
Planning is an unnatural process - it is much more fun to do something.  The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression. [Sir John Harvey-Jones]

canadian

#22
January 24, 2005, 08:35:21 PM
But, Blunt, don't you get it? We wimmin love watching those male buns climb the heights.  ;D
If people stand in a circle long enough, they will eventually begin to dance. -- George Carlin
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