Via the Associated Press:
At a roundtable later with business executives, Biden said he'd heard some say women are good in the workforce because they are kinder and gentler.
"I've never found that to be the case," Biden said to laughter. "They're as tough, they're as strong, they're as everything as a man is - and vice-versa."
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Elsewhere..."The hardwired difference between male and female brains could explain why men are 'better at map reading'... And why women are 'better at remembering a conversation'"
Researchers found that many of the connections in a typical male brain run between the front and the back of the same side of the brain, whereas in women the connections are more likely to run from side to side between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.The Independent
This difference in the way the nerve connections in the brain are “hardwired” occurs during adolescence when many of the secondary sexual characteristics such as facial hair in men and breasts in women develop under the influence of sex hormones, the study found.
“What we've identified is that, when looked at in groups, there are connections in the brain that are hardwired differently in men and women. Functional tests have already shown than when they carry out certain tasks, men and women engage different parts of the brain,” Professor Verma said.
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If Romney or any Republican said such a thing -they'd be the focus of media soap opera over-hype and humiliation for years and years.
That study says that it's the heightened levels of testosterone and estrogen at adolescence that wire the male and female brains differently. That up till then the brains of male children and female children are wired the same. How does that square with the very obvious difference in the behavior patterns of young boys and young girls? Something doesn't jibe.
"Biden said he'd heard some say women are good in the workforce because they are kinder and gentler."
Only to your face. But wait 'til your back is turned ...
"I've always loved working with women because they seemed to be kindler and gentler, and because they always smelled so good, unless they were drinking beer, eating hot Italian sausages and rutabagas, then it was like..."
Biden would never, never had gotten where he is at if he was a Republican. God, the man is an idiot.
vice-versa?
So "A man is everything a woman is"? OK Joe.
I pretty much agree with Joe.
I always thought the idea that women were less violent, less militant, kinder, gentler... all those things... well, sometimes women might be more nurturing, but that's nurturing with an iron fist, thank-you.
I also agree with April Apple... if a Republican politician said this, they'd be toast.
If I weighed ninety pounds, I would be much kinder and gentler.
I could use some abuse.
He's talking about feminists, not women.
Think the Silver-Haired Angel of Death versus Miss Sarah.
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