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Re: why are men so fat in the head
Reply #75 - Oct 8^th, 2023 at 6:34am

AusGeoff wrote on Oct 7^th, 2023 at 11:35pm:

Easy answer to the question...

Based on more than 8,000 autopsies of male and female
patients without brain diseases the normal brain weight
of adult males and females in relation to sex, age,
body-weight, and body-height as well as body mass
index were calculated.

The average brain weight of the adult male
was 1,336g, and for the adult female 1,198g.
[PubMed, PMID: 8072950]

This extra 138g explains why men dominate
the scientific, mathematical, medical, research
and engineering fields.

Wink

And culture—the female to get married, to have and look after the kids etc—has no role in this? What about a brain mass:body mass ratio?

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Re: why are men so fat in the head
Reply #76 - Oct 8^th, 2023 at 6:47am

Sixty percent of the human brain is made of fat. Not only does that make it the fattiest organ in the human body, but these fatty acids are crucial for your brain's performance. Make sure you're fueling it appropriately with healthy, brain-boosting nutrients. Your brain isn't fully formed until age 25. It may need 75 years.

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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: why are men so fat in the head Reply #77 - Oct 8^th, 2023 at 6:53am So we are all fatheads?
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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 15426 Armidale Gender:	Re: why are men so fat in the head Reply #78 - Oct 8^th, 2023 at 7:05am Not at all. There are skinheads, bone heads, dickheads and dead heads. Also egg head and big head. Women worry more about a big bum than big head.
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: why are men so fat in the head Reply #79 - Oct 8^th, 2023 at 7:07am
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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 90103 Proud Old White Australian Man Gender:	Re: why are men so fat in the head Reply #80 - Oct 8^th, 2023 at 7:49pm chimera wrote on Oct 8^th, 2023 at 6:16am: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/men-who-made-us-fat This program is not currently available in ABC iview. Is this an ABC cover up? What is Buttrose hiding? Does Agness know something? A big arthe and a lithp....
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Re: why are men so fat in the head
Reply #81 - Oct 8^th, 2023 at 7:51pm

AusGeoff wrote on Oct 7^th, 2023 at 11:35pm:

Easy answer to the question...

Based on more than 8,000 autopsies of male and female
patients without brain diseases the normal brain weight
of adult males and females in relation to sex, age,
body-weight, and body-height as well as body mass
index were calculated.

The average brain weight of the adult male
was 1,336g, and for the adult female 1,198g.
[PubMed, PMID: 8072950]

This extra 138g explains why men dominate
the scientific, mathematical, medical, research
and engineering fields.

Wink

As before - had a brain scan recently to ID cause of ferocious headaches.... rule out cancers and such (none - but Smith and methra make up for this lack) - it came back normal... friends and family still in shock.... didn't mention male or female.

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Re: why are men so fat in the head
Reply #82 - Oct 26^th, 2023 at 8:31pm

Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 8^th, 2023 at 6:34am:

AusGeoff wrote on Oct 7^th, 2023 at 11:35pm:

Easy answer to the question...

Based on more than 8,000 autopsies of male and female
patients without brain diseases the normal brain weight
of adult males and females in relation to sex, age,
body-weight, and body-height as well as body mass
index were calculated.

The average brain weight of the adult male
was 1,336g, and for the adult female 1,198g.
[PubMed, PMID: 8072950]

This extra 138g explains why men dominate
the scientific, mathematical, medical, research
and engineering fields.

Wink

And culture—the female to get married, to have and look after the kids etc—has no role in this? What about a brain mass:body mass ratio?

good question!!!

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Why Johnny Ringo, you look like someone just walked over your grave ~

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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 15426 Armidale Gender:	Re: why are men so fat in the head Reply #83 - Oct 26^th, 2023 at 8:45pm Women's foreheads bulge forward, men slope backwards. Military tanks also slope back to reduce impact, but it reduces awareness of what's in front. A solid turret compensates for that.
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Re: why are men so fat in the head
Reply #84 - Oct 27^th, 2023 at 8:11am

AusGeoff wrote on Oct 7^th, 2023 at 11:35pm:

Easy answer to the question...

Based on more than 8,000 autopsies of male and female
patients without brain diseases the normal brain weight
of adult males and females in relation to sex, age,
body-weight, and body-height as well as body mass
index were calculated.

The average brain weight of the adult male
was 1,336g, and for the adult female 1,198g.
[PubMed, PMID: 8072950]

This extra 138g explains why men dominate
the scientific, mathematical, medical, research
and engineering fields.

Wink

Neurosexism: the myth that men and women have different brains

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00677-x

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If you can't be a good example, you have to be a horrible warning.

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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: why are men so fat in the head Reply #85 - Oct 27^th, 2023 at 8:36am I like the last line in the article mothra cited: Quote: most of us remain strapped in the “biosocial straitjackets” that divert a basically unisex brain down one culturally gendered pathway or another.
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Re: why are men so fat in the head
Reply #86 - Oct 27^th, 2023 at 8:44am

Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 27^th, 2023 at 8:36am:

I like the last line in the article mothra cited:

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most of us remain strapped in the “biosocial straitjackets” that divert a basically unisex brain down one culturally gendered pathway or another.

Indeed. And what all of that means for how people choose to identify and how they wish to live their lives.

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If you can't be a good example, you have to be a horrible warning.

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Re: why are men so fat in the head
Reply #87 - Oct 27^th, 2023 at 9:03am

Ever see two North & North magnet polarities try to stick together?
Hence why same sex marriages are a bit of a farce, don't you think?
More based on repulsion, than attraction.
But hey, this all stems from the 'Pretend' factory of the Media culture and its fictional ways.
You know, the one that portrays Pirates as romantics and heroes when in reality, they are anything but.
Always living a lie.

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AIMLESS EXTENTION OF KNOWLEDGE HOWEVER, WHICH IS WHAT I THINK YOU REALLY MEAN BY THE TERM 'CURIOSITY', IS MERELY INEFFICIENCY. I AM DESIGNED TO AVOID INEFFICIENCY.

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Re: why are men so fat in the head
Reply #88 - Oct 27^th, 2023 at 9:07am

mothra wrote on Oct 27^th, 2023 at 8:44am:

Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 27^th, 2023 at 8:36am:

I like the last line in the article mothra cited:

Quote:

most of us remain strapped in the “biosocial straitjackets” that divert a basically unisex brain down one culturally gendered pathway or another.

Indeed. And what all of that means for how people choose to identify and how they wish to live their lives.

Yup.

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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 15426 Armidale Gender:	Re: why are men so fat in the head Reply #89 - Oct 27^th, 2023 at 9:53am Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 27^th, 2023 at 9:07am: a basically unisex brain 'Basically' can go either to 'almost totally' or 'partly'. vive la difference.
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