Male Vs Female

Differences in Male and Female

For some reason, human had always compared themselves with others since a long time ago. They always wanted to prove that they are better. The same goes with the debate on which one is better, man or woman? Well, my answer is none, because we are all the same, except there are slight differences in our nature.

There are 3 obvious things that differentiate man with woman. They are physical structure, reproductive organ and the last one is how they think. Since physical structure and reproductive organ are easy to be changed nowadays, I would prefer to differentiate between man and woman according to how they think. There are some biological reasons for this difference which are their brain structure and hormone production. According to some sort of balance theory from Taoism, these differences between man and woman make them always complement each other. This is what Erich Fromm said as dichotomy existence. It is the same as day and night, black and white, good and bad and many more.

In brain structure, the differences exist in corpus callosum, hypothalamus, lower paterial lobe and the nerve cells in hippocampus and paterial lobe. This structure differences cause the male and female to act differently in emosion, sexual behavior, talking, visualizing and ability to solve complex problem.

Sandra Witelson, in her research involving nine male brains and five female brains said that overall, the size of female brain is smaller than male. She also said that the corpus callosum (the “bridge” between left and right brain) is bigger in woman. Simon LeVay (1994) defended this fact after he found out that corpus callosum really is bigger in woman. In addition to that, he also said that a component called anterior comissure (nerve fibers that connect the two cerebral hemispheres) is also bigger in woman.

Let us go back in real life. Woman, in many cases, really love to tell stories about anything. What surprise me is their choices of words are far better than a man, and combine this with the tone and good intonation, you can feel their emotion in the stories. How about man? I’m quite sure that they can’t tell you stories the same as woman do.

Why is this happened? The answer is because of the transfer process between right and left brain is better in female. As I stated above, woman has bigger corpus callosum, and thus, contain more fibrous nerves involve in the transferring process. This is without a doubt, proves why woman likes to talk, especially in explaining academic things. Other than that, hypothalamus content, especially in medial preoptic, also is difference. This region, which control sexual behavior, is 2.5 to 3 times larger in male, explaining why male is always chasing for sex.
In terms of aging process, brain fibrous in male especially in temporal and frontal lobe, will first be to decline in function. These two parts are responsible in controlling how the male think and feel. Thus, changes in these brain parts will cause changes in how they think and feel. For female, their paterial lobes and hippocampus will be first to deteriorate as they grow older. During that time, they will lose their memories and also their spatial ability. We can see that older women usually forget where they put their keys, phone and also forget what they did yesterday.

The differences in the dimension and structure of the brain, is automatically differentiate between male and female in how they think and act. But this doesn’t mean anything in the academic performance. Although female has bigger corpus calosum then male, this doesn’t mean that the female is better in academic performance. This is because, all the differences in the brain structure will only results in different way of thinking and acting, as many research had done. Thus, when the theory of balances is put into account, these two different ways will have a great impact if they are combined together. These show why marriage is important to us.

References :
Pasiak, T. (2008). Revolusi IQ EQ SQ. Selangor, Malaysia : PTS MILLENIA SDN BHD