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The Great Sex Divide: A Study of Male-Female Differences
By Professor Glenn Wilson. Entertainingly written, a leading University of London psychiatrist refutes the invalid psychological assumptions on which extreme feminist arguments rely and shows that men and women have reciprocal roles in society, based on identified psychological differences. Sex and Evolution; Evidence from Human Biology; Evidence from Animals and other Cultures; Can the Differences be Suppressed?; Sexual Anomalies and Difficulties; Talent & Achievement; Aggression and Crime; Social Forces and the Sex War.
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
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September 16, 2021
8.25/10.
Wilson has written a concise but informative overview of the biological basis of sex differences. Whether physical, intellectual, personality, hormonal, or abnormal, Wilson looks at biological differences and why they exist. Sociobiological theory is shown to be the best predictor of current behaviors.
Some things I learned:
The degree of masculinity and the degree of femininity in women correlate very highly with rates of divorce. In other words, the most masculine males and the most feminine females have the least divorces. The differences are major. The most masculine men and feminine women have rates of divorce around ~10% (around 1985) and on the other hand, the most feminine men and masculine women have divorce rates around ~60%.
Apparently 25% of homosexual men have had over 1000 sexual partners (!!!). This was found in 1982, and is an obvious reason why AIDS spread in their community. Why do they have so many partners? The evolutionary view of male homosexuals is that they cannot compete in the socio-sexual hierarchy for females, and then drop out of the male promiscuity battle for women. Because they are no longer privy to the judgements of the women (sexual selectors), they are left with other males (w/ high libido) and then proceed to have massive amounts of sex for pure pleasure. Clearly homosexual sex cannot, by definition, be aimed at anything other than pleasure.
Male and female intellectual differences: males have better visio-spatial intelligence, women have better verbal intelligence; males are more competitive, aggressive, and interested in abstract things than women; women are more caring and empathic of others; women are more agreeable than men; males's IQ profile has a higher standard deviation, i.e. there are more moron males and genius males than females; men care more about politics and economics than women; women care more about religion and are more superstitious than men (e.g. 2x rates of believing in palm-reading and astronomy); men are more dedicated to various pursuits and are more grandiose (think Wagner taking 34 years from start to finish to complete his "The Ring of the Nibelung" drama); women are more neurotic and anxious than men [That's all I can remember at the moment.].
Male homosexuals are like females in their psychological, hormonal, and physical profiles. Lesbians are like males in all of the above areas, e.g. they are more aggressive.
Affirmative action for women has led to female professors having, on average, lower performance scores and output level (publications) than their male counterparts.
The sexual revolution has not changed the sexual preferences and "difficulties" of women and men. The same, large percentage of men say that they would have sex after just meeting a woman, whereas women want to get to know a man (ensure he will provide for them) before being promiscuous. Males' testosterone leads them to having different sexual fantasies than women, which shows they have different preferences than women. Men want group sex more than women, and women want to have sex with their partner more.
Wilson's contention is that women are more monogamous than men, and that men basically polygynous in their "sexual utopia", as Devlin puts it. I disagree. I think that women are hypergamous and that the notion that they are monogamous is shown to be false because ~70% of divorces are initiated by women. Why would they do this? Often because they see a better status man that they think they have secured.
Male hips are designed to run and fight — for performance; women's hips are a compromise between that end and the end of childbirth, so they are wider. The narrowness of one's hips correlates with the aggressiveness/masculinity, both within women and men. Homosexual men have wider hips than heterosexual men. This is probably due to testosterone levels in the fetus and during puberty.
Different chromosomal abnormalities can cause strange behaviors. Men with an extra Y chromosome (XYY) are extremely tall, more aggressive, and 20x more likely to be put into a mental institution.
Male prostitutes barely exist because it is men that have 1 million sperm for every 1 egg of a female. In other words, they have much higher libidos than women. Because of this phenomenon, some women become prostitutes because there is a demand for sex from males.
Why are there so many more male geniuses in mathematics, music, engineering, innovation, and philosophy? Wilson explains this because males' IQ range has a higher SD, they have higher visio-spatial intelligence, they are more interested in abstract things, they have higher aggressiveness (translating into drive or motivation in their pursuits), and they work harder in solitude (verses women who need to be in social environments to work as hard as males). Low social status cannot explain extremely low female genius levels because a large number of male geniuses were born of low social status (Newton, Dickens, Tesla, etc.). The areas in which women have been extremely well known require verbal or nurturance abilities: e.g. humanitarianism (Mother Teresa, Florence Nightingale) and literature (Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf).
All babies in the womb start as females, and testosterone causes XY babies to become male. Because the transition is male -> female, more mess-ups happen with genetic males. These abnormalities explain why there are more male homosexuals than female homosexuals.
"Women's lib" has morphed into feminism and morphed from sexually promiscuous to viewing the testosterone-driven behaviors of the male as evil. For example, feminism has changed from wanted sex to be free and everywhere, to now saying that sexually explicit images of women "objectify" them. Another example is the ever-increasing emphasis on sexual harassment and accusations which now pervade our society and especially universities. The 1 million to one ratio of sperm to eggs, the massively increased testosterone levels in the males compared to the female mean that men want sex, with whomever. They are not the selectors; females are! Males are stimulated by the simple image of a woman whereas women need an emotional connection. Men are attracted to young women, and women are attracted to older men. Women want provision and status; men want youth and beauty.
I have no idea how to deal with these things in our modern society and legal situation. Please read Roger Devlin's book, "Sexual Utopia in Power". The natural impulses of males should be constrained, I agree; the extremes of aggressiveness lead to murder, assault, and other types of serious crime. But in our modern society, the man is always sided against; he can be destroyed if he "compels" a woman to have sex, even if he asked her and she said yes. Well, how can you bloody prove that? Males are taller and stronger than women, so this thing could happen all the time. My solution is to return to a traditionalist environment (as much as possible!) and to find a woman who cares about children and passing on life, instead of making more money.
The legal system has ruled that all male organizations are not to be allowed in the USA, while ruling that it is just fine for all female organizations to keep on running. This is interesting. Always remember this: the philosophy of academia, the mainstream media, and of our "culture" (if one can call something a culture which is not cultured) is not coherent whatsoever. It is hypocritical and meant to destroy the traditional structure of the West. This happens in all of the major issues. Affirmative action is to set minorities aright from their oppression, even though Asians make ~30% more per year than Whites in the US. Organizations are meant to be inclusive, except for minorities who need safe spaces which inherently cannot include everyone. The more you investigate, the more these hypocrisies appear.
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Heritability analyses must be thought of carefully. "Environmental" influences do not mean that your social class, or parents, or school influenced you. Environmental influences can happen due in the mother's womb, and these are almost always the most important environmental factor. Stress, alcoholism, drugs, nutrition, and other factors can affect a baby's hormonal development, as well as other intellectual traits. Another environmental factor could be a head injury which happened in childhood.
Wilson has written a concise but informative overview of the biological basis of sex differences. Whether physical, intellectual, personality, hormonal, or abnormal, Wilson looks at biological differences and why they exist. Sociobiological theory is shown to be the best predictor of current behaviors.
Some things I learned:
The degree of masculinity and the degree of femininity in women correlate very highly with rates of divorce. In other words, the most masculine males and the most feminine females have the least divorces. The differences are major. The most masculine men and feminine women have rates of divorce around ~10% (around 1985) and on the other hand, the most feminine men and masculine women have divorce rates around ~60%.
Apparently 25% of homosexual men have had over 1000 sexual partners (!!!). This was found in 1982, and is an obvious reason why AIDS spread in their community. Why do they have so many partners? The evolutionary view of male homosexuals is that they cannot compete in the socio-sexual hierarchy for females, and then drop out of the male promiscuity battle for women. Because they are no longer privy to the judgements of the women (sexual selectors), they are left with other males (w/ high libido) and then proceed to have massive amounts of sex for pure pleasure. Clearly homosexual sex cannot, by definition, be aimed at anything other than pleasure.
Male and female intellectual differences: males have better visio-spatial intelligence, women have better verbal intelligence; males are more competitive, aggressive, and interested in abstract things than women; women are more caring and empathic of others; women are more agreeable than men; males's IQ profile has a higher standard deviation, i.e. there are more moron males and genius males than females; men care more about politics and economics than women; women care more about religion and are more superstitious than men (e.g. 2x rates of believing in palm-reading and astronomy); men are more dedicated to various pursuits and are more grandiose (think Wagner taking 34 years from start to finish to complete his "The Ring of the Nibelung" drama); women are more neurotic and anxious than men [That's all I can remember at the moment.].
Male homosexuals are like females in their psychological, hormonal, and physical profiles. Lesbians are like males in all of the above areas, e.g. they are more aggressive.
Affirmative action for women has led to female professors having, on average, lower performance scores and output level (publications) than their male counterparts.
The sexual revolution has not changed the sexual preferences and "difficulties" of women and men. The same, large percentage of men say that they would have sex after just meeting a woman, whereas women want to get to know a man (ensure he will provide for them) before being promiscuous. Males' testosterone leads them to having different sexual fantasies than women, which shows they have different preferences than women. Men want group sex more than women, and women want to have sex with their partner more.
Wilson's contention is that women are more monogamous than men, and that men basically polygynous in their "sexual utopia", as Devlin puts it. I disagree. I think that women are hypergamous and that the notion that they are monogamous is shown to be false because ~70% of divorces are initiated by women. Why would they do this? Often because they see a better status man that they think they have secured.
Male hips are designed to run and fight — for performance; women's hips are a compromise between that end and the end of childbirth, so they are wider. The narrowness of one's hips correlates with the aggressiveness/masculinity, both within women and men. Homosexual men have wider hips than heterosexual men. This is probably due to testosterone levels in the fetus and during puberty.
Different chromosomal abnormalities can cause strange behaviors. Men with an extra Y chromosome (XYY) are extremely tall, more aggressive, and 20x more likely to be put into a mental institution.
Male prostitutes barely exist because it is men that have 1 million sperm for every 1 egg of a female. In other words, they have much higher libidos than women. Because of this phenomenon, some women become prostitutes because there is a demand for sex from males.
Why are there so many more male geniuses in mathematics, music, engineering, innovation, and philosophy? Wilson explains this because males' IQ range has a higher SD, they have higher visio-spatial intelligence, they are more interested in abstract things, they have higher aggressiveness (translating into drive or motivation in their pursuits), and they work harder in solitude (verses women who need to be in social environments to work as hard as males). Low social status cannot explain extremely low female genius levels because a large number of male geniuses were born of low social status (Newton, Dickens, Tesla, etc.). The areas in which women have been extremely well known require verbal or nurturance abilities: e.g. humanitarianism (Mother Teresa, Florence Nightingale) and literature (Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf).
All babies in the womb start as females, and testosterone causes XY babies to become male. Because the transition is male -> female, more mess-ups happen with genetic males. These abnormalities explain why there are more male homosexuals than female homosexuals.
"Women's lib" has morphed into feminism and morphed from sexually promiscuous to viewing the testosterone-driven behaviors of the male as evil. For example, feminism has changed from wanted sex to be free and everywhere, to now saying that sexually explicit images of women "objectify" them. Another example is the ever-increasing emphasis on sexual harassment and accusations which now pervade our society and especially universities. The 1 million to one ratio of sperm to eggs, the massively increased testosterone levels in the males compared to the female mean that men want sex, with whomever. They are not the selectors; females are! Males are stimulated by the simple image of a woman whereas women need an emotional connection. Men are attracted to young women, and women are attracted to older men. Women want provision and status; men want youth and beauty.
I have no idea how to deal with these things in our modern society and legal situation. Please read Roger Devlin's book, "Sexual Utopia in Power". The natural impulses of males should be constrained, I agree; the extremes of aggressiveness lead to murder, assault, and other types of serious crime. But in our modern society, the man is always sided against; he can be destroyed if he "compels" a woman to have sex, even if he asked her and she said yes. Well, how can you bloody prove that? Males are taller and stronger than women, so this thing could happen all the time. My solution is to return to a traditionalist environment (as much as possible!) and to find a woman who cares about children and passing on life, instead of making more money.
The legal system has ruled that all male organizations are not to be allowed in the USA, while ruling that it is just fine for all female organizations to keep on running. This is interesting. Always remember this: the philosophy of academia, the mainstream media, and of our "culture" (if one can call something a culture which is not cultured) is not coherent whatsoever. It is hypocritical and meant to destroy the traditional structure of the West. This happens in all of the major issues. Affirmative action is to set minorities aright from their oppression, even though Asians make ~30% more per year than Whites in the US. Organizations are meant to be inclusive, except for minorities who need safe spaces which inherently cannot include everyone. The more you investigate, the more these hypocrisies appear.
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Heritability analyses must be thought of carefully. "Environmental" influences do not mean that your social class, or parents, or school influenced you. Environmental influences can happen due in the mother's womb, and these are almost always the most important environmental factor. Stress, alcoholism, drugs, nutrition, and other factors can affect a baby's hormonal development, as well as other intellectual traits. Another environmental factor could be a head injury which happened in childhood.
April 13, 2014
An interesting explanation on the differences between men and women.
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