I’ve been trying to tell you since I created you, I made the men have bigger brains!

God made woman more loving and sensitive because they are the bearer’s of our children

Nietszche said “Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman has one solution—that is pregnancy. Man is for woman a means: the purpose is always the child. But what is woman for man?”
and “…Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior.”

I’m stuck on the second to last paragraph.

“Shors says sex differences in the brain may explain why women are so sensitive to stress, and why they are more likely to suffer from stress-related diseases such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).”

That correlation can’t be made since we don’t know if women are more likely to suffer from these or men are less likely to report suffering from them.

The only thing I saw proven was that women seemed less likely to alter behavior when forced to action. How this translates to real-world situations is still completely unknown.

Interesting find! Would love to know more about this in the future.

70% of graduate psychology students are now female. Why do female psychologists enjoy torturing rats? Is it affirmative actions that promote preferential admission for females in psychology and other fields?

Affirmative action makes women and minorities feel like rats in an experiment, so female psychologists transfer this feeling to real rats?

Laurie’s interpretation of the experiment is clearly flawed, since there was no action involved. Rather there was a learning task after intentional stress, which was impaired in female rats but not in males.

Affirmative action again?

Love the comments. They reveal more about gender response to stress than the original experiment. Comment for Kody – Nietszche has to be carefuly considered. His notes were edited after his death by his sister. It is said she hated him because he would not have sex with her, or because he did. Ain’t psychology fun?

Commenters should try to recall that this experiment was done in rats, not “women”.

I think it’s pretty common knowledge that women are more succeptable to depression and anxiety than men. It’s not that men don’t get depressed it’s just that they don’t let it interfere and break down and cry about it. We don’t know what it’s like having copious amounts of estrogen flowing through our minds and bodies. And Dr. O’, Nietszche’s personal life is pretty irrelevant to his philosophical insight. You’d think that if his sister hated him and edited his works for her own benefit, she would have left out any derogatory, or semmingly so, statements about women. Look at Aleister Crowley, i’m sure he dove head first into sexual debauchery, but how else could he know what it’s like on the other side of morals, to dictate to us our own side?

Try being a woman, super sensitive to stress, and add on a child with special needs! I just read an article on abilitypath.org that woman of children with special needs have a shortened life span o 9-12 years due to the level of stress they experience.

http://www.abilitypath.org/love-laugh–live/stress-relationships/coping/articles/mothers-of-children-with-special-needs-and-combat-soldiers.html

Kody’s right – I do research in depression and women’s rates are much higher than men starting in early adolescence, and seem to remember the same for PTSD (know people tend to think of just soldiers, but women soldiers now, and abuse, other traumatic events cause way more PTSD in women than in men). And Laurie – definately proven paths between stressful experiences and onset of depression.

Nice to see some neurology research on this, and not, ‘it’s the estrogen’ all the time. Also – this is in rats, it’s yet to be seen if you’d see the same gender difference in pathway in humans.