Understanding Love, Part 6/7B (Additional Information)

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Man and Women - Unique Emotional Built-up (Additional Information)

It often puzzled us why man and women are so different in dealing with their feelings. To understand, this let us look into an excerpt from Dr. James Dobson’s “Bringing Up boys”.

The first factor to be considered is the hormone testosterone, which is largely responsible for maleness (even though smaller amounts of it occur in the bodies of girls and women). It shows up at six or seven weeks after conception, when all embryos are technically “female.” That is when a dramatic spiking of testosterone occurs for those who have inherited a “Y” (or male) chromosome. It begins masculinizing their tiny bodies and transforming them into boys.

In real sense, this “hormonal bath,” as it is sometimes called, actually damages the walnut-shaped brain and alters its structure in many ways. Even its color changes. The corpus callosum, which is the rope of nerve fibers that connects the two hemispheres, is made less efficient. That limits the number of electrical transmissions that can flow from one side of the brain to the other, which will have lifelong implications. Later, a man will have to think longer about what he believes --- especially about something with an emotional component. He may never fully comprehend it. A woman, on the other hand, will typically be able to access her prior experience from both hemispheres and discern almost instantly how she feels about it.

(Dobson, J. 2001. p. 19)

Cont. to Part 6C