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Monday, November 27, 2017

FEMALE AND MALE BRAINS ARE WIRED DIFFERENTLY scans reveal - The idea of personal GENDER CHOICE goes against basic science

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  • The psychological and physical differences between men and women have always been obvious, celebrated, and unquestioned - until now, when a movement borne out of political correctness and relativism gone mad  has succeeded in legalizing and normalizing the idea that gender is a personal choice.   
  • Ideas with no basis in science tend to disappear with time and become fringe and a source of amusement - such as the idea of a flat earth.   
  • However, the normalization of what is essentially an aberration is causing a great deal of distress in families, as teachers implement a curriculum that indoctrinates even very young children into questioning their own normal sexuality.
  • Worse, the mere public debate on this subject has been stifled in Canada and in institutions all over the United States, and characterized as "hate speech".  
A lecturer at Wilfred Laurier University in Canada is facing an investigation after she showed a clip in class of University of Toronto Professor Jordan Peterson speaking on the issue of transgender politics.  Jordan Peterson is a mild-mannered professor, not a right wing radical, just a fierce defender of free speech.  He refuses to cower to university administrators' demand to address people according to their gender choice.  Read more further down this page.   
  • Authorities instil fear on anyone wanting to question the now official line that it is a hate crime to use traditional male or female gender pronouns when addressing a person who has chosen an alternate gender.  In other words, if you address a man wearing a dress as "sir" you are a hate criminal.
  • Parallel to this social debate there is another issue that needs to be addressed:  how estrogen pollution (from excreted birth control pills) of drinking water is producing the feminization of men, and how soy products that mimic estrogen are suspected of the same result.
  • Men's sperm count has dropped precipitously in the last few decades.  Something nefarious is going on that is decreasing male fertility and increasing homosexuality.  See references further on this page. 
  • The idea that men and women are equally suited for all jobs is absurd. 
  • If you were hiring someone to look after your babies you would tend to choose a woman rather than a man, even if both are equally qualified, because of women's nurturing instinct. 
  • If you had any say in the hiring of firefighters, you would hire a capable man rather than a woman  to be able to pull an injured person out of a burning house if needed. 
  • But political correctness wants us to put logic and biology aside and to say that men and women are  just as capable of doing ANY sort of job.
  • Evolution built  males and females differently for the sake of our own survival and that of our species.

Maps of neural circuitry show women's brains are suited to social skills and memory, men's perception and co-ordination

By Ian Sample, The Guardian

Scientists have drawn on nearly 1,000 brain scans to confirm what many had surely concluded long ago: that stark differences exist in the wiring of male and female brains.
 
Maps of neural circuitry showed that on average women's brains were highly connected across the left and right hemispheres, in contrast to men's brains, where the connections were typically stronger between the front and back regions.
 
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Ragini Verma, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, said the greatest surprise was how much the findings supported old stereotypes, with men's brains apparently wired more for perception and co-ordinated actions, and women's for social skills and memory, making them better equipped for multitasking.
 
"If you look at functional studies, the left of the brain is more for logical thinking, the right of the brain is for more intuitive thinking. So if there's a task that involves doing both of those things, it would seem that women are hardwired to do those better," Verma said. "Women are better at intuitive thinking. Women are better at remembering things. When you talk, women are more emotionally involved – they will listen more."
 
She added: "I was surprised that it matched a lot of the stereotypes that we think we have in our heads. If I wanted to go to a chef or a hairstylist, they are mainly men." 
 
Men women brains

Above:  Neural map of a typical man's brain. Photograph: National Academy of Sciences/PA
 
 
 
 
Female brain
 


Above:  Neural map of a typical woman's brain. Photograph: National Academy of Sciences/PA
 
 
 
The findings come from one of the largest studies to look at how brains are wired in healthy males and females. The maps give scientists a more complete picture of what counts as normal for each sex at various ages. Armed with the maps, they hope to learn more about whether abnormalities in brain connectivity affect brain disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.
 
Verma's team used a technique called diffusion tensor imaging to map neural connections in the brains of 428 males and 521 females aged eight to 22. The neural connections are much like a road system over which the brain's traffic travels.
 
The scans showed greater connectivity between the left and right sides of the brain in women, while the connections in men were mostly confined to individual hemispheres.
 
The only region where men had more connections between the left and right sides of the brain was in the cerebellum, which plays a vital role in motor control. "If you want to learn how to ski, it's the cerebellum that has to be strong," Verma said. Details of the study are published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
 
Male and female brains showed few differences in connectivity up to the age of 13, but became more differentiated in 14- to 17-year-olds.
 
"It's quite striking how complementary the brains of women and men really are," Ruben Gur, a co-author on the study, said in a statement. "Detailed connectome maps of the brain will not only help us better understand the differences between how men and women think, but it will also give us more insight into the roots of neurological disorders, which are often sex-related."
 
Source 
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/02/men-women-brains-wired-differently









A lecturer at Wilfred Laurier University is facing an investigation after she showed a clip in class of University of Toronto Professor Jordan Peterson speaking on the issue of transgender politics.

Lindsey Shepherd, a graduate student and teaching assistant at Wilfred Laurier University in Ontario, is facing an investigation over her decision to show her class a television debate on laws acknowledging the unique gender pronouns of transgender persons.
 
In the clip (shown as "debate" down below), Peterson takes on two panelists who defend legal punishments for those who refuse to comply with unique gender pronouns.
 
Shepherd told Canadian news outlets that she was chastised by her superiors at Wilfred Laurier for refusing to condemn Peterson’s remarks in the clip.
 
She claims that the administrators that chastised her compared her decision to present the clip without taking a stance against Peterson was akin to remaining neutral on historical figures like Adolph Hitler.
 

Shepherd claims that she showed the video to illustrate a point about the impact of language on society. She argued that societal views on gender have been shaped by the English language in a significant way. “This was an opportunity for the university to be like ‘it’s true, we should be able to have a debate, we’re sorry it became an issue and we’re happy to foster debate in the university environment,”‘ Shepherd said. “Instead, they’re being weird about it.”

 

Despite Shepherd’s claims, Laurier claims that they protect academic freedom for instructors. “Laurier is committed to fostering a learning environment that is open and challenging, protects academic freedom and freedom of expression, as well as being welcoming, supportive and respectful of human rights,” Laurier’s statement read.



Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, acting executive director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, argued that bigots have co-opted “freedom of expression” on campuses to advance their causes even though historically speech rights have been used to win freedoms for the oppressed.

 
“There are plenty of bigots, white supremacists, neo-nazis who have claimed ‘freedom of expression’ for themselves and have made it difficult for people who value equality to say that ‘this is an important tool for democracy that we also hold dear,” she said. “Anybody who knows anything about the history of the struggle for freedom knows that those freedoms have been won through … debate, through the expression of unpopular opinion.”
 
Peterson rose to public awareness in September 2016 over his condemnation of Canadian Bill C-16 which would have made it illegal to refuse to acknowledge the unique pronouns of transgender individuals.
 
Source
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/11/17/canadian-lecturer-censured-after-showing-jordan-peterson-video-in-classroom/














 

VIDEO - Faith Goldy:
Is Soy Feminizing the West?
 
Soy has chemicals that mimic estrogen and can wreak havoc with male hormones.  





 Estrogen in birth control pills has a negative impact on fish

If these chemicals are physically altering fish sexuality, what are they doing to human males?   Women dependent on birth control pills will fight to the death any attempt to limit their use, even if they represent a toxic threat to fish and humanity.


 
 
Science Daily -  A new doctoral thesis from Lund University in Sweden shows that hormones found in birth control pills alter the genes in fish, which can cause changes in their behaviour. The thesis also shows that nurse midwives, who are the main prescribers in Sweden, lack information about the environmental impact of hormonal birth control methods, which may affect the advice they provide.
 
The hormone ethinyl-estradiol (EE2) is an active substance in many birth control pills which affects aquatic organisms when released as waste into the water. In her thesis, Lina Nikoleris studies how fish are affected by EE2.
 
"Even low concentrations of EE2 have an impact on fish -- both their behaviour and their genetics. We have seen a change in the genetic balance in fish, and that they have a harder time catching food. Previous studies have shown that the fish also develop problems with procreation. This can lead to the complete disappearance of an entire fish population, and consequences for entire ecosystems," says Lina Nikoleris.
 
Fish have more oestrogen receptors than humans, which makes them especially vulnerable to oestrogen in water. The thesis studies three different fish species: salmon, trout and roach, which are economically important fish that live in both sea and freshwater.
 
Lina Nikoleris has also studied nurse midwives' knowledge of the environmental impact of hormonal birth control, the information they receive, and the impact it has on the consultation they provide.
 
The results show that the midwives find that they do not have sufficient knowledge, and any information they have mainly comes from pharmaceutical companies. In Sweden birth control is subsidised but the system can be difficult to grasp, and it mainly includes hormonal birth control methods.
 
Overall, the knowledge about hormone-free alternatives is scarce.
"The impact that human beings have on the environment is an important issue, so I do not only want to study the ecological aspect of how fish are affected by hormones, but also look at the way we use hormonal birth control.
 
Technical solutions are not enough to purify our water -- we must also make sure that prescribers and women receive all the relevant information when selecting a method of birth control," says Lina Nikoleris.
 
Lina Nikoleris is defending her thesis on Friday March 4, which will be available online at a later stage.
 
Source 
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160304092230.htm



VIDEO - Professor Jordan Peterson His Stance On Gender Pronouns  (4 minutes)



 
VIDEO -  Jordan Peterson on why gender identity is not entirely subjective  (3 Minutes)


VIDEO - Genders, Rights and Freedom of Speech - Debate with Professor Jordan Peterson (55 minutes)
 
 
 

 
Professor Jordan Peterson's YouTube Channel


 
MEN in the Netherlands demonstrate in support of the many women who have been victims of rape by migrants from the Middle East and Africa.  Instead of protecting their women, these modern Dutch men wear skirts and high heels as symbols of support. 


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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

FEMINISTS VERY SILENT AS IT IS MEN WHO DO THE RESCUE AND HEAVY LIFTING during Hurricane Harvey
 
Women who disparage and hate men now quietly accept their help - LET'S THANK THE HEROES!
 
SEE MORE IMAGES
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2017/08/feminists-very-silent-as-it-is-men-who.html
 
 
 
 
 


Rubbishing the male of the species and everything he stands for is a disturbing  21st century phenomenon
IN PRAISE OF HEROES 

 - FIGHTING WILDFIRES OR PREVENTING A FRENCH TRAIN MASSACRE BY A MUSLIM TERRORIST
 - It is men who us
ually do heroic acts, ready to give up their lives to save others 

 - WHAT THE FEMINIST CULTURE REFUSES TO ADMIT WHILE IT DENIGRATES MEN


 
READ MORE
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2015/08/in-praise-of-heroes-fighting-wildfires.html

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