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It's official. And it's all steeped in science. Fellow blokes, this is the moment of truth we've been waiting for.
The men in white lab coats have finally come round to the decision that if we don't want to talk to our wives after a long day's work, it's not really our fault.
The good one above simply hardwired us that way. Curious though. Why did it take them so long? I have always known that if blokes promptly fell asleep after getting it on with their mates, it really wasn't their fault.
They just can't help themselves, but science only exonerated us recently on that one.
If blokes can't really be bothered with foreplay, isn't it because they are made to get right to the point?
Like hop, step, remove your clothes, and bingo! (Okay sometimes we won't even wait for the clothes to come off but, hey, science is now on our side.)
We don't have to feel guilty about zapping through the TV channels like monkeys on steroids. Oh no.
And if you forgot her birthday for the third year in a row, heck it really isn't your fault.
That side of the brain for men just isn't up to it, as the scientists are finally telling us.
Men's brains and women's brains are simply two different types of cookies buttered on different sides.
Men are not behaving badly either when they keep accumulating smelly socks.
Or forget to take out the trash.
According to family therapist Michael Gurian in his new book What Could He Be Thinking ?, male and female brains are wired differently long before birth.
I already love this fellah.
The hormones that surge through our foetal brains lead to different developments and neural connnections.
The typical male brain, says Dr Brunilda Nazaro, devotes much more brain area to spatial skills (see the crazy taxi drivers?), mechanical design (any female brick layers out there?), manipulation of physical objects (including women) and abstraction (think of all the mad scientists. Any women out there?)
With all that stuff taking up space in our grey matter, we simply have very little area devoted to word use and word production. Or emotion.
I will confess I am one of those blokes who really get goose bumps whenever sweet heart says "we need to talk."
Normally what I actually hear when those words are said is "we need to quarrel" and I always have a strong urge to ask "Do we really? Can't we just kiss and forget it?"
Well, usually you can forget 'forgetting it.' So why don't men want to talk? "Males don't take in as much of the conversation as women do," Gurian says. "Because [men] have more cortical areas devoted to spatial mechanicals and fewer verbal centres, we are not getting as much of it, and in general men will want to end the conversation more quickly than women." Sound familiar, huh?
Well there is a good reason. The female brain, thanks to all that weird hormone called oxytocin, wants to bond at the end of the day in order to rejuvenate, the good doctor says. "She wants to talk, using all those verbal centres, and she wants to get close to him."
And gentlemen there is the problem. I just don't wanna bloody talk. I can't talk. I don't want to talk. In fact, at such times, I would rather have my perfectly good tooth pulled than talk. Period.
Just give me the remote and let me flick the channels like crazy. That's how I wind down. No, thats how blokes wind down. When they can be found at home, that is.
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