Wednesday, February 16, 2005
CNN.com - Brainpower as easy as X and Y - Feb 15, 2005
http://tinyurl.com/4laga:
"The differences can be noticed from early childhood, Gurian said, such as when an adult gives a child a doll.
'That doll becomes life-like to that girl, but you give it to a two-year-old boy and you are more likely, not all the time, but you are more likely than not to see that boy try to take the head off the doll,' he said.
'He thinks spatial-mechanical. He's using the doll as an object'."
Two things:
1. What if the little boy bites the head off the doll - is he destined to be a rock star?
2. So, it's ingrained in men to treat women like objects?
;-)
"The differences can be noticed from early childhood, Gurian said, such as when an adult gives a child a doll.
'That doll becomes life-like to that girl, but you give it to a two-year-old boy and you are more likely, not all the time, but you are more likely than not to see that boy try to take the head off the doll,' he said.
'He thinks spatial-mechanical. He's using the doll as an object'."
Two things:
1. What if the little boy bites the head off the doll - is he destined to be a rock star?
2. So, it's ingrained in men to treat women like objects?
;-)
