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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Ahnimus wrote:
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fruity ;)


    Well, it appears 'fruity' just about covers it all. :D
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Ahnimus wrote:
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fruity ;)


    www.urbandictionary.com wrote:
    (in fact, the 80s as a whole was quite possibly the Fruitiest Decade Ever)

    I take offense at that! :p:D
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    cutback wrote:
    I take offense at that! :p:D

    I'm pretty sure all the definitions are user submits. I just like it 'cause it says what people think of when they hear the word, which isn't always the exact definition.

    The 80's were pretty fruity though.
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    cutback wrote:
    I take offense at that! :p:D
    You may take offense, but it's pretty much impossible to argue with that statement.
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    hippiemom wrote:
    You may take offense, but it's pretty much impossible to argue with that statement.


    Cmon guy are you telling me that this

    http://content.vcommerce.com/products/fullsize/87/3455087.jpg

    is fruity?!?! :eek: :p:p:D:D:D
  • angelica
    angelica Posts: 6,038
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Actually the increase in white matter occurs primarily in the Amygdala. Which is the emotiona centre, or gateway to the limbic system.

    The point is that the adults in our culture essentially program the children, causing them to fit these models we've created. So long as we continue to say "Men/Women are like this..." they will be. By saying it we are hard-wiring it into our children, they then behave according to expectations, for the most part.

    Then the question remains, is it bad or good to have these distinct gender roles? According to women's liberation, it's a bad thing. Then we abolish this perception that men/women are better suited for specific roles within the family. This means women are not better parents naturally and men are not better workers as studies have shown. The differences are only from individual to individual. Perhaps we should look at the mass of white and grey matter of the amygdala in both parents to determine who is 'better'. But I don't think that's the only determining factor in what makes a good parent.

    I'm referring to the corpus callosum, which connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

    "Newsweek stated in 1992 that the corpus callosum was 'Often wider in the brains of women than in those of men, it may allow for greater cross talk between the hemispheres—possibly the basis for woman’s "intuition". It has also been used, for example, as the explanation of an increased single-task orientation of male, relative to female, learners; a smaller male corpus is said to make it harder for the left and right sides of the brain to work together and to explain a greater feminine ability to multitask."

    "...more recent studies using new techniques revealed morphological sex differences in human corpus callosum. Whether, and to what extent, these morphological differences are associated with behavioural and cognitive differences between males and females is unclear".

    It looks like according to science, how all this is tied together, and what causes what is unclear, without adding in beliefs and theories.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    cutback wrote:
    Cmon guy are you telling me that this

    http://content.vcommerce.com/products/fullsize/87/3455087.jpg

    is fruity?!?! :eek: :p:p:D:D:D
    ALMOST as fruity as this.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • angelica
    angelica Posts: 6,038
    Ahnimus wrote:
    The point is that the adults in our culture essentially program the children, causing them to fit these models we've created. So long as we continue to say "Men/Women are like this..." they will be. By saying it we are hard-wiring it into our children, they then behave according to expectations, for the most part.

    Then the question remains, is it bad or good to have these distinct gender roles? According to women's liberation, it's a bad thing. Then we abolish this perception that men/women are better suited for specific roles within the family. This means women are not better parents naturally and men are not better workers as studies have shown. The differences are only from individual to individual.

    I agree with this, basically. I think it's very important to decide on an individual basis. We cannot judge one person as per a gender role, even with generalities, or we practise a programmed lack of discernment and stereotyping.
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  • angelica
    angelica Posts: 6,038
    hippiemom wrote:
    ALMOST as fruity as this.
    Ouch. You're hurting me...... :(




    Duran Duran rules!!! I love to receive my myspace bulletins written by John Taylor, the legend, himself! And baraka's husband resembled him back in the day!
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    angelica wrote:
    Ouch. You're hurting me...... :(




    Duran Duran rules!!! I love to receive my myspace bulletins written by John Taylor, the legend, himself! And baraka's husband resembled him back in the day!
    I'm going to pretend that I don't know this about you :p
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    hippiemom wrote:
    I'm going to pretend that I don't know this about you :p

    I'll have to go with you on this one. Those whacky Canadians.
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    angelica wrote:
    I'm referring to the corpus callosum, which connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

    "Newsweek stated in 1992 that the corpus callosum was 'Often wider in the brains of women than in those of men, it may allow for greater cross talk between the hemispheres—possibly the basis for woman’s "intuition".

    I still contend when asked that this is why women can't make up their minds to accelerate or stop on a yellow light. :D
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    angelica wrote:
    I'm referring to the corpus callosum, which connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

    "Newsweek stated in 1992 that the corpus callosum was 'Often wider in the brains of women than in those of men, it may allow for greater cross talk between the hemispheres—possibly the basis for woman’s "intuition". It has also been used, for example, as the explanation of an increased single-task orientation of male, relative to female, learners; a smaller male corpus is said to make it harder for the left and right sides of the brain to work together and to explain a greater feminine ability to multitask."

    "...more recent studies using new techniques revealed morphological sex differences in human corpus callosum. Whether, and to what extent, these morphological differences are associated with behavioural and cognitive differences between males and females is unclear".

    It looks like according to science, how all this is tied together, and what causes what is unclear, without adding in beliefs and theories.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum

    It's also unclear if there is a difference. This section you left out...
    wikipedia.com wrote:
    Unusually, the scientific dispute in the case of the corpus callosum is not about the implications of biological difference, but whether such a difference actually exists. A substantial review paper performed a meta-analysis of 49 studies and found, contrary to de Lacoste-Utamsing and Holloway, that males have a larger corpus callosum, a relationship that is true whether or not account is taken of larger male brain size.[1]
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  • angelica
    angelica Posts: 6,038
    hippiemom wrote:
    I'm going to pretend that I don't know this about you :p
    gue_barium wrote:
    I'll have to go with you on this one. Those whacky Canadians.
    :D (John Taylor rules!!!!!!!) My mohawk pics are now public knowledge, but where I draw the line is with posting my Duran Duran hairdo pics! ;)
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  • angelica
    angelica Posts: 6,038
    Ahnimus wrote:
    It's also unclear if there is a difference. This section you left out...
    The second part I quoted states that newer studies show this difference. "more recent studies using new techniques revealed morphological sex differences in human corpus callosum". I've read this elsewhere, as well, in a book by a neuropsychiatrist.
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Wait did that say "men have larger brains"

    That'd explain why women need more corpus calcuim or whatever :p
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    angelica wrote:
    :D (John Taylor rules!!!!!!!) My mohawk pics are now public knowledge, but where I draw the line is with posting my Duran Duran hairdo pics! ;)

    ok, well now you have to...

    The 80's were awesome. My only regret was listening to Gowan strange animal more than is probably healthy. However Styx can rock.
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Wait did that say "men have larger brains"

    That'd explain why women need more corpus calcuim or whatever :p

    The extra corpus calcium turns into to breast milk...it's moot :D
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    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
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  • angelica
    angelica Posts: 6,038
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    ok, well now you have to...

    The 80's were awesome. My only regret was listening to Gowan strange animal more than is probably healthy. However Styx can rock.
    I loved the 80's.
    Gowan's "Criminal Mind" video was very cool. And Styx DOES rock!!! I'm not so sure about Strange Animal, though! ;)
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  • Ahnimus
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    I actually don't agree that one side of the brain is emotional and the other side is logical. I also don't agree that "intuition" is a product of coherence between the left and right hemispheres, intution comes from the prefrontal insular cortex, as far as I know.

    Some studies have shown that the brain doesn't operate solely on one side at a time, it all operates together, in tandem.
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