Men, Women Two Different Species

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The Vatican has endorsed bestiality as a perfectly natural form of sex, and has even encouraged many a woman to marry men in what amounts to interspecies marital and sexual congress. This means, of course, that the only non-sinful way for humans to have sex would be for them to engage in sex between others of the same species, which would mean women could have sex only with other women and men with other men.

Alright, this is based on what appears to be a pretty flawed study by Marco Del Giudice of Italy’s University of Turin as well as Paul Irwing and Tom Booth of the University of Manchester. They got 10,000 Americans to take a “questionnaire that measured 15 different personality traits. According to their analysis, men are far more dominant, reserved, utilitarian, vigilant, rule-conscious, and emotionally stable, while women are far more deferential, warm, trusting, sensitive, and emotionally ‘reactive.’ The two sexes were roughly the same when it came to perfectionism, liveliness, and abstract versus practical thinking.”

According to Irwing, the research means that women and men behave almost like two separate species. Irwing stated “If you translate it into the simplest terms only 18 percent of men and women match in terms of personality profiles, and that’s staggeringly different from the consensus view.”

The Huffington Post reported:

The consensus view, most persuasively set out in a 2005 study by Janet Shibley Hyde, a professor of psychology and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, demonstrated through a meta-analysis of 46 other studies that men and women were actually very similar, not only in personality traits, but in other realms of supposed gender difference, like self-esteem, leadership, and math ability.

In the early 1970s, Hyde became one of the first researchers to focus on the psychology of women. “Before that, psychology had been a psychology of men,” Hyde told The Huffington Post, and many theories had been developed based on entirely male samples. So she began to study women, and the differences between women and men, and was surprised at how small those differences turned out to be. “I mean, I was trying to study difference,” Hyde said.

Hyde says the final figure Irwing, Del Giudice, and Booth came up with — the “global sex difference” — is “really uninterpretable, it doesn’t mean anything.”

The biggest flaw in the study is the fact that, like it or not, it is limited to the United States and not others. It seems to make the argument that our culture creates a situation where women and men act as two different species. Further study would be necessary, and in other cultures, but it would have to be done in order to take into account the cultural pressures that exist to conform to a particular manner.