A minor observation - Page 2

On December 18 2014 02:50 MarlieChurphy wrote:
I've noticed in the last couple of years, perhaps it's just me, perhaps it's society quietly mutating, but there is a bit of a distinction in some specific mentalities of the people on the internet, or on speaking to other people in general.

Previously, I noticed that when males speak/type they use a more specific get to the point, concrete, facts way of communication. And females would be different, with the focus more on the overall setting or mood etc (i'm not female so it's hard for me to specify this in a more loving way). In general this is true, and I understand there are always exceptions. And of course there is nothing wrong with this, males and females are not the same and have pros and cons to each. That's how humans work together to be great.

Because of this, I thought it was usually somewhat easy, more than 50% of the time to be able to tell if a man or a woman wrote something, without having seen the person or even really reading the entire text. Just a snippet of context or a paragraph could be enough. However, lately onto my main point, a previously very clear 'giveaway' or distinction was that males would say something like: "I disagree because I think..." and a woman would say something like "I disagree, I feel that..." In any given context this used to hold true at a majority rate (unless I was simply not noticing it before, kinda like how you tend to notice a specific car with the same color more once you know someone who has it). Maybe I'm entirely wrong about this, but it seems that I see more and more males writing or even saying "I feel like...". And I have heard other people, smarter people, mention things along these lines.

This is interesting to me, and I am curious if there is a sort of consciousness shift of the population in the way we speak, or perhaps evolving our weaker traits in order to be better humans etc. Who knows.

Along the lines of this are other noticeable things that have been studies, such as how mtf transgender brains are wired differently, more female, yet still have male passions and pursuits in a lot of cases that appear more male on paper. And the ftm transpeople don't seem to have a similar type of brain, they almost seem to be trying too hard to appear male and only have manly hobbies etc. But again maybe that is just a stigma on gender roles, where females are more accepted to do anything and males are not. Who knows.

Another thing, is recent studies on gay parent couples. Traditionally, all things being equal, it is best to have a father and mother, as they both provide very specific and well understood roles on childhood development. However, science says that the gay brains are wired more well rounded in that they can fulfill both roles just as well, or almost as well as the dual gender parental unit.

Is this all part of human evolution, are we slowing adapting into a single type of brain wiring that better understands and is more efficient at being the social animal? Is this actually a bad mutation for the human race in the long run?


I'm getting a little off topic, but basically I have just noticed that males seem to sound less male these days, and I'm not saying its bad or good, just curious about it. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that there are too many controls in society now, life is not as simple as it used to be in a day to day life of a male, etc. etc. Perhaps we are adopting a more repressed/oppressed role that most females have felt for so long. Maybe that's just always been bullshit? Who knows.

Or maybe it's just something each man goes through as he gets older and wiser, and becomes less under the influence of the most powerful drug in the world, testosterone.