DemonKia
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Joined: 10/13/2007 From: Chico, Nor-Cali Status: offline
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FR, after read thru Okay, sorry for thread-jacking above. Here's a little substantive thinking on the topic . .. . . Shakti beat me to saying much of what I wanted to say in reading thru the first coupla pages of this thread, & did such a great job of it. & LadyNTrainer also put well some essential components of this . . . . . There are differences between what we categorize under masculine & feminine, & outside of some of the obvious physical externalities, we can, with some accuracy, discuss the 'masculinized brain' & the 'feminized brain' . .. . . But the distinct differences are, frankly, kinda minimal when one pulls back for the big picture. Fractional differentials, mostly. & Shakti, airsmoochiehugs to you for mentioning the criterion of significant difference -- within-group variation is greater than between-group variation equals no significant difference between the groups. The external physicalities are surprisingly loosely correlated to 'brain sex', & not just for those transgendered persons over there *waves hand, points off into the distance* . . . Part of it is that 'masculine' & 'feminine' parse out into hundreds, even thousands or tens of thousands, of affected components which can be evaluated. & darn few persons end up on the end of the continuum in every fem v masc category . . . . & there's significant overlap in the middle of the two overlapping normal curves you get if the distribution of this or that fem / masc characteristic are surveyed . .. . . As many are a blend of masculine & feminine as are holders of the 'purer' either / or characteristics . . . . But the interesting thought that occurred to me as I was thinking thru this thread was that relationships are such complex constructs, existing over lengths of time, possibly involving multiple persons . . . . & thus I suspect that masculine versus feminine personality differences end up being a relatively small proportion of the overall factors impacting any given relationship . . . . . This was an interesting thread, Otter.
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