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Originally Posted by JustShakey
My (male) T often says that women are smarter emotionally than men and are more intuitive. I'm not so sure I agree with him, I think it's too much of a generalization.
I do think he has a point though... As women, we have to learn to contain the natural mood swings that come with having a hormonal cycle, so we're perhaps able to handle more stress than men without acting out? And we're not as physically strong as men, so we have to use our heads more?
Idk. Maybe some guys could weigh in on this?
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Research on autism does show that females tend to have higher social and emotional IQs than males. Aspergers has been referred to in literature as an "extreme male brain". Basically this meant that the traits seen in autistic peopla - less ability to recognize emotions, less social skills, logical thinking, fascination with parts and pieces rather than ideas and concepts etc, etc... were exagerrations of traits already present in typical males but not so many females. They thought it was genetic (and some still do) but now its accepted that it's mostly due to social conditioning. I thought this was fascinating. It really illustrates how much gender bias there is in the psych world.