Since there has been observation on this forum that most younger female (not male) swimmers at Nationals wore non-tech suits (the 18-24 and 25-29 groups), I'm curious as to why.
Anyone of that younger group look at this board and care to post reasons? Cost? Controversy over "authenticity" of times when fastest suits are banned? Desire to look hot for guys, as one poster suggests?
Karen, alas I think our respective genders are somewhat the product of our respective hormonal milieu in the womb. A greater proportion of testosterone during critical periods of development seems to lengthen and thin the corpus collosum, which serves as the major connecting cable of sorts, between the two brain hemispheres in men. Women tend to have shorter, fatter corpus collosi. Thus the theory is that you can better integrate your thinking, multiprocess, and benefit from "intuition"--which is really a kind of global processing of information that comes up with the right answser but can sometimes be hard to explain logically where that right answer came from.
We males, on the other hand, are (or so the theory goes) able to focus a lot of attention, almost obsessively so, on one thing at a time. Your husband may not be great at doing all kinds of projects simultaneously, but I am willing to bet that if he starts something, he probably will stay at it much longer than you would feel comfortable doing so, and keep at it till it's done.
One of the theories for why autism strikes so many more boys than girls is actually that the brains of people with the disorder are supermasculinized, cognitively speaking. Asperger's kids, for instance, get so obsessed by a single topic they learn everything there is to learn about it, while ignoring everything else.
Women are very good at reading people's faces and emotions; men much less so; autistic people not at all.
Interestingly, the psychiatrist who came up with this testosterone in the womb theory of autism is the brother of the guy who played Borat. Can't remember the doctor's first name, but he is a Baron-Cohen, too.
In summary: if you have sons, and feel sympathy for how their brains are constructed, try to see that your husband's brain is constructed similarly, and cut him some slack!
Karen, alas I think our respective genders are somewhat the product of our respective hormonal milieu in the womb. A greater proportion of testosterone during critical periods of development seems to lengthen and thin the corpus collosum, which serves as the major connecting cable of sorts, between the two brain hemispheres in men. Women tend to have shorter, fatter corpus collosi. Thus the theory is that you can better integrate your thinking, multiprocess, and benefit from "intuition"--which is really a kind of global processing of information that comes up with the right answser but can sometimes be hard to explain logically where that right answer came from.
We males, on the other hand, are (or so the theory goes) able to focus a lot of attention, almost obsessively so, on one thing at a time. Your husband may not be great at doing all kinds of projects simultaneously, but I am willing to bet that if he starts something, he probably will stay at it much longer than you would feel comfortable doing so, and keep at it till it's done.
One of the theories for why autism strikes so many more boys than girls is actually that the brains of people with the disorder are supermasculinized, cognitively speaking. Asperger's kids, for instance, get so obsessed by a single topic they learn everything there is to learn about it, while ignoring everything else.
Women are very good at reading people's faces and emotions; men much less so; autistic people not at all.
Interestingly, the psychiatrist who came up with this testosterone in the womb theory of autism is the brother of the guy who played Borat. Can't remember the doctor's first name, but he is a Baron-Cohen, too.
In summary: if you have sons, and feel sympathy for how their brains are constructed, try to see that your husband's brain is constructed similarly, and cut him some slack!
