Neuroscientist Explains That Sex's Brains Are The Same

Lately there has been many articles stating that the male brain is different from the female one. But this newest information sounds more accurate. What do you think?

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Most information recently, regarding the male and female brain differences, has pretty much stated that there are big differences between the two sexes. But Neuroscientist Professor Georgina Rippon has come up with an explanation which pretty much concludes that both sex's brains are the same.

Professor Georgina Rippon informs that the brains of the sexes has been formed by our society's patterns of upbringing children. Girls playing with dolls and boys with trucks. At first, both brains are the same, but as children are encouraged to play with certain toys, they acquire certain personality traits. Boy's toys are much more 'training" based and girl's toys are more "nurturing" based. These society patterns get more and more re-enforced onto children and changes how female and male  brains develop and become different. Professor Georgina Rippon explains that this is why more women become nurses and men engineers and physicists. Television also encourages stereotypes, by advertising certain tasks for each sex.

Her final message is to let children play with any toys they want. Let them figure out what they like and therefore what they choose as a profession when they're adults. Maybe in the future, we won't be able to tell which brain is a man's or which one's a woman's… This professor makes perfect sense, what a brain!

Original Article by Sarah Knapton, Science Correspondent of The Telegraph.

Parents, Stop Buying Boys Toy Guns.

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Have you ever noticed that the boy's toy section in retail stores, always have fake guns, rifles, machine guns and other types of firearm toys? They even have missile launchers, grenades, fighter jets, tanks... the list goes on and on. All toys that encourage violence! Children, specifically boys, are encouraged from age 3 to play with toy firearms. We know they are fake, but should a society like ours, encourage this type of violence and unrealistic games about killing each other? Won't this in a way desensitize boys and actually teach them how to act out violent situations with guns?

We are always complaining about violence in our society and blame television and movies for exposing children to it. Yet, we ourselves are encouraging violence for boys and girls at a very young age. Learning starts in the home and playing with toy guns should be discouraged!

Next time you go to a birthday party or a holiday gathering with friends and relatives, make sure that the gifts you take AREN'T GUNS!