Are we the 'same?'

Anyone who has read a newspaper or gone to college in the past thirty years has been indoctrinated with the idea that men and women are the same.  Now, don’t think that when I say the ‘same’ I mean ‘equal,’ we are obviously equal as in having the same value.  What we have been taught is that we are the same as in having the same wants, desires, needs and feelings and the only differences between us are created by our society.

I actually bought into this madness until I gave our very young sons both trucks and dolls and the dolls were consistently being used as ramps for those trucks.  I am pretty sure that they were not socialized in our home to treat babies as on ramps… We also did not bring a single gun or sword into our home and our kids don’t watch any tv shows with such activities, yet, every long hard object in and out of our home is turned into a sword or gun… I was finally jolted back to reality and the facts that people have known for thousands and thousands of years, men and women do have some inherent differences!

The author of, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, John Gray, has just written a new book, Why Mars and Venus Collide.   The book examines a number of studies about brain differences in men and women and how those differences affect our relationships.  It is an interesting book and you can hear a preview of the ideas in the book when Dennis Prager interviews John Gray. 

(Move the arrow to 12 minutes into the program to hear the interview with John Gray)