Women Are All White Power

Writing scientifically why men are better than women are always my favorite articles. In science, there’s no room for emotion. That’s not why women are lousy at science though. Women are shit at science because they have the attention spans and brains of little girls.

When did the myth even start that women act like they do (like bitches) because they’re “more emotional” than men? Does it not take emotion to die for your country and for freedom?

Well I think it fucking does. It takes a hell of a lot more emotion than what it takes to act like a cunt because someone forgot to pick up jam at the store.

Women’s brains are like man brains, but without all the bits inside that make them work properly. Bits like shutting up and think-y before speak-y; those are all missing in a woman’s brain. In order to make up for these deficiencies, women have had to cobble together half-brains out of their existing parts.

That’s where the term half-wit comes from. Women’s brains, their wit if you will, are literally half that of a man — or is it even less than half?

A recent study from the University of California, Irvine has shown that men have 6.5 times the grey matter in their brains that women do, and women have 10 times the amount of white matter in their shit-brains. Guess which matter actually matters?

It’s the grey matter of fucking course.

“In human brains, gray matter represents information processing centers, whereas white matter works to network these processing centers.” -Professor Richard Haier

In layman’s terms, the study means women are all bullshit and no bull. Imagine a fire hose. As men, that’s very easy to do. Now with a man, the hose works properly and puts out the fire. That’s a metaphor for how we use our properly functioning grey matter brains to get the job done. Women, however, take the end of the hose and connect it to the beginning. They spend their entire fucking lives mucking around in their white matter brains, networking bullshit that’s got nothing to do with anything and running around like hens without heads.

Here comes the part which makes science articles such a joy. Here comes the part where emotion has got nothing to do with the hard, cold numbers I’m about to get in the hair of feminism and women and their ridiculous whim of rights and voting and property ownership.

6.5 times the grey matter of men multiplied by 10 times the white matter of women makes men 65 times better than women. It doesn’t get any easier than that.

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Comment by Detached
2008-06-02 07:47:21

MPTucker said:

Go easy on Mr. Masterson. He’s not a teenager any more and he knows it.

Dick has never asked for any mercy. As a matter of fact, this website is an elaborate wake up call for women to defend themselves and their heinous behavior and acceptance of the equality lie. They failed miserably and it shows. Sucks to be you I guess.

 
Comment by Detached
2008-06-02 07:45:44

menarefunny said:

Dick Masterson said:

Daniek said:

but didn’t you never have a girlfriend???

Tons.

-Dick

Obviously. And he so impressed them with his prowess they left him sad and empty and with nothing better to say than what whores they are.

Sounds like experience talking. That may be what *you* experience when you get dumped but us alpha males still get booty calls from former dumpees. Sucks to be you I guess.

 
Comment by MPTucker
2008-05-31 00:14:10

Go easy on Mr. Masterson. He’s not a teenager any more and he knows it.

 
Comment by menarefunny
2008-05-30 19:41:25

Dick Masterson said:

Daniek said:

but didn’t you never have a girlfriend???

Tons.

-Dick

Obviously. And he so impressed them with his prowess they left him sad and empty and with nothing better to say than what whores they are.

 
Comment by Dick Masterson
2008-05-29 11:23:17

Daniek said:

but didn’t you never have a girlfriend???

Tons.

-Dick

 
Comment by Daniek
2008-05-29 08:17:55

hello I am from holland.
I just see you at dr phil
I think it’s funny how you talk about women.
my english is not very wel. but I think some man are agree with you and sometimes I think women are a stupid people too. but didn’t you never have a girlfriend??? or friends who are women??

Oh yea I am a woman too
Bye bye grtz From the netherlands!

 
Comment by bola
2008-05-28 10:24:51

Sharon said:

I am a woman who don’t need a man.

You’re just afraid of commitment.

 
Comment by MattB
2008-05-28 10:05:01

The biggest turn off for me, next to a women acting manly, is when a women says she doesn’t need a man.

 
Comment by Keb
2008-05-28 09:45:32

Sharon said:

I am a woman who don’t need a man.

Hmmm…..that is kind of sad.

So what do you do when your car breaks down, or you need to replace your roof or have a deck built. Who built the house you live in? Or, what if your house burnt down and you call 911, are you going to turn down the firemen and policemen who arrive to save your butt?

I need men like I need the air I breath.

 
Comment by studioline
2008-05-28 09:42:28

We are men who don’t need females. If you are a female we don’t need you.

 
Comment by Sharon
2008-05-28 09:36:37

I am a woman who don’t need a man.

 
Comment by MPTucker
2008-05-20 14:33:20

Hey boys, the more often you ejaculate now, the less your chances of getting prostate cancer later in life. Come on over to my house and let’s have a big naked circle jerk. I’ll stand in the middle and you can all look at me!

 
Comment by Deathslayer
2008-05-20 06:42:44

She has an opinion?

I thought it was a comedy routine.

Deathslayer

 
Comment by doubt
2008-05-19 02:27:00

Who asked the fuckbox for its opinion?

 
Comment by Michael
2008-05-19 01:16:17

MP Tucker, thank you for demonstrating a classic case of projection.

-Freud

 
Comment by MPTucker
2008-05-18 20:49:42

Sigmund Freud spent thirty years studying the feminine soul and he still couldn’t answer the question: What does a woman want?

I’ll tell you what a woman wants:

A woman wants to live alone in a house with an unrelated, athletic teenage boy who likes to walk around naked all the time with a big erection in his hand. And if he doesn’t have any money she’ll be happy to buy him all the hand lotion he wants.

 
Comment by Muzalon
2008-05-18 15:37:18

MPTucker said:

Most women just spend their lives all pissed off because they never could find any athletic teenage boys to walk around naked in from of them.

Plus, they are bitter about having to menstruate and bear children.

 
Comment by MPTucker
2008-05-18 15:00:02

Most women just spend their lives all pissed off because they never could find any athletic teenage boys to walk around naked in from of them.

 
Comment by P Coderch
2008-05-05 01:53:20

I love how all the cunts who post here accuse us of being gay. Of course, they don’t accuse the women who bitch about men on Opra of being lezzies, now do they?

P Coderch

 
Comment by jarbrain
2008-05-01 20:21:45

sonyad said:

So, what you’re heading at is women’s brains have to go full throttle, maybe even into afterburner (if only they’d have such a mantastic feature), to ’solve’ the most pointless of shitty tasks while men’s brains manage by only leisurely chucking along at the only appropriate setting (with a man’s brain) for such ‘problems’: almost dead idle or asleep.

Of course, when dealing with important, which also tends to mean difficult stuff, men’s brains’ autocruise gently pushes the throttle to suit the requirements and importance of the task while still processing and responding to the nagging and pointless, almost rhetorical if not for being something else, female statements, questions or hysteria in the background, foreground, underground and highground.

Of course. Such important intellectual and cognitive tasks may include:

1. Designing and running entire programs, sub procedures & functions in one’s head whilst at the same time thinking of possible problem causes and fixes as well as general improvements for the sake of speed, simplicity, systematisation & standardisation.

2. Figuring out why the car’s engine thirsts out and won’t fucking turn over for the world then actually fixing it, not trying hard to remember the mechanic’s phone number which would be pointless anyway cause you’re lost in a mountain’s ass crack somewhere.

Only a man would think (I really should stop right here, but for the sake of argument) of solving the issue of a cracked fuel pomp that you can’t do shit about right here and now by choking the engine and pouring fuel down the carb. to make it start while someone is trying to turn it over behind the wheel.

Then proceeding back down the mountain, engine choked and never stopping or going out of first, to the nearast human habitation thereupon which plugging the pump with some pig raw hide from the local peasantry. And what a bloody brilliant fix that was. Couldn’t smell any fuel in the eng. comp. (could before) for years after until the car was eventually sold.

3. Inventing, hypothesising about, understanding then explaining stuff worth a shit.

4. Supressing pain, soulhurt, instinct, conditioned and natural reflex for the sake of said goal or pride.

5. Planning 5 moves (not to be confused with recursively analyzing all possible situation developments 5 moves ahead but a great deal many nontheless) ahead at chess and generally ‘pwning’ women.

6. Dealing with complex and/or spatial geometry and newtonian physics (intuitively and otherwise) as applied to real life too, not just paper but pwning women at both nontheless. For instance when driving aggresively and implicitely fast (sometimes very for given road conditions) and dynamically while still preserving higher overall safety levels than women; managing to not inconvenience the hell out of other drivers (for abso-fucking-lutely no reasonable reason: putting on lipstick when the light turns green, parking in the middle of the boulevard for 30 min. while fucking off to where unknown, I kid you not, etc.), cause or participate in accidents, and preserve situational awereness.

btw, the writing on your rearview (what an unfortunately misleading name) mirror is meant for women (surprise, surprise) that shouldn’t be in a position to read it anyway and is not just useless to men (we don’t need it) but pointless to women (they’re still gonna fuck it up, regardless how much effort men put into preventing them hurting themselves and other not just when behind the wheel).

7. Knowing, understanding and rememberring a respectable amount of data and facts on a respectable number of topics while still being open-minded and unbigoted.

8. Empathising, genuinely caring, loving (obsessing about), etc.

9. other stuff I don’t care to write about. Wrote too much as is. You’re still probably going to be on your merry way to neverland and believe whatever you wish to.

Talk about how mantastic men’s brains are, heh? g’day.

wow. More Top Ramen. I would like to study if the reason a woman’s brain won’t work right is because of the very prescense of a male. Do you think maybe, hormonally, (due to pherones)-their brains become submissive, passive & latent? I really think so. For example, we have this one assitant who’s a paragon when her boss is gone-when he’s there, she becomes a terminal fuck up. Self persevation in a self-defeatest way?
We have a difficult time trying to dechiper what’s going on between them.
I’ve seen other woman figure things out on their own as well. I think nature renders them ‘deer in the headlights’. Think about it, if they were as good at ‘Stratego’ as men…they’d start doing stuff like figuring out how easy it is to kill somebody in their sleep. It is God-ordained on every level that men prevail…but survival of the species from a science standpoint indicates adaptation.
Nobody likes meetings over 20minutes long that are written and orated in ‘gun metal grey’.

 
Comment by jarbrain
2008-05-01 20:03:47

Gabriella LaPlace said:

Well, I guess he’s just some pissed man who can’t get a girlfriend. Or maybe he’s secretly gay.

“Um, excuse me, miss-but this shoe fits you.” Can you go back and tally how many other women in the last two years of posts have said that exact thing, not to mention in voicemail or live?
You said it again, Whitey.

 
Comment by Sandman33
2008-05-01 14:43:00

Gabriella LaPlace said:

“This, according to Rex Jung, a UNM neuropsychologist and co-author of the study, may help to explain why men tend to excel in tasks requiring more local processing (like mathematics), while women tend to excel at integrating and assimilating information from distributed gray-matter regions in the brain, such as required for language facility. These two very different neurological pathways and activity centers, however, result in equivalent overall performance on broad measures of cognitive ability, such as those found on intelligence tests.”

you 4 got to mention that men are better at math and women are better at languages. Stop making one-sided articles. You could be a lawyer. lol.

Women aren’t better at languages! Men INVENTED language. Men dont learn 3-4 different languages anymore because they dont need to to get the job done. If a man needs to learn a new language for some reason such as business, he will. And he will learn it just as quick if not quicker than a woman. Because he is going to focus on the parts of the language that are actually usefull in his purpose and not focusing on rembering the bullshit.

Women need to use a lot less language anyway. Its a fact that women speak much more than men every day and get much less done.

Getting MORE accomplished while speaking less words is efficient and FUCK thats manly.

 
Comment by LEE HOTTY
2008-04-09 10:19:27

Srsly, Jim Goad would be spinning in his grave if he weren’t in fact alive and was in fact willing to accept responsibility for this idiot and his inane ramblings.

the irony is, this guy’s writing is more all over the place than even the dumbest, blondest, biggest-titted intern at our magazine. How the fuck did you ever get a book deal? maybe I should stick a pen up my ass, shit over 300 pages and call it a ‘follow up’

Oh, right, nobody will buy this piece of badly written shit anyway so whats the point in a’follow up’ There’s a clue in this post somewhere for the publishers.

 
Comment by reallyfun
2007-12-19 20:55:57

Wow…and all they teach in those feminized college institutions are how much women are ’smarter’ than men…retarded.

 
Comment by DOUG BROWN
2007-11-01 22:28:04

This is CRAP

 
Comment by Billy
2007-02-14 16:05:57

Gabriella LaPlace said:
That back chattihg gossip things is true though. Though the intent is not to hurt sometimes. Women just like to talk; to bond or to relieve strees. Rather talk a bout a problem and feel better,rather than fix it. It’s like an equivalent to crying. Makes you feel better. If you share what’s worring you with someone else, you don’t feel alone.

Lose lips sinks ships.

That is what the majority of women do. They say the wrong things at the wrong times. They kick you when you’re down.

 
Comment by Necroswordsman
2007-02-14 13:23:13

Wolfe said:

Good point. And, finally, let’s not forget that, for many women:
‘My friend is my enemy’.

-wolfe

Even better.

Gabriella LaPlace said:
Tha’s why I have slighly more guys friends than girl friends. I Can’t deal with the drama.

Another reason men are better than women. If we start being dramatic, a quick slap around the face and a ‘PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER MAN’.

 
Comment by Gabriella LaPlace
2007-02-14 12:39:14

Well, It’s probably true with other women, with the clothes thing. Never happened to before though, I was never that type of girl. Women who like that are usually man crazy/boy crazy.Clothes are not liFe, make up is not life, If someone only likes you for the things which block your characteristics,then,screw them.

That back chattihg gossip things is true though. Though the intent is not to hurt sometimes. Women just like to talk; to bond or to relieve strees. Rather talk a bout a problem and feel better,rather than fix it. It’s like an equivalent to crying. Makes you feel better. If you share what’s worring you with someone else, you don’t feel alone.

But the again, some women are just Confusion with a capital C. They like too much drama. Tha’s why I have slighly more guys friends than girl friends. I Can’t deal with the drama.

 
Comment by Wolfe
2007-02-14 12:17:44

Necroswordsman said:

Let’s not forget a good old man philosophy

‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend’

To women its

‘The enemy of my friend is my enemy also’

Good point. And, finally, let’s not forget that, for many women:
‘My friend is my enemy’.

-wolfe

 
Comment by Necroswordsman
2007-02-14 12:13:05

Wolfe said:

Strong men will generally support other strong men.

If you really haven’t noticed this yet in life, then you have not lived much.

-wolfe

Let’s not forget a good old man philosophy

‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend’

To women its

‘The enemy of my friend is my enemy also’

 
Comment by Billy
2007-02-14 12:11:48

Another one.. You make casual friends with a girl at work, have casual conversation and before long she is running aorund telling her friends your business, exaggerating things and calling you names. To your face she is all smiles. Behind your back she is your enemy.

Typical gossip queen.

 
Comment by Wolfe
2007-02-14 12:05:05

OK. Two men show up wearing the same suit and tie. They nod at one another and think “wow, that guy’s a snappy dresser”.

Two women show up wearing the same outfit. They glare at each other, one scurries off to change, and they secretly think nasty thoughts about one another and seek to undermine one another.

Look at any organization. The men in it will generally compete. Some will be jerks, a few will backstab, most will simply work away.

The women? Strong women will generally plot and seek to undermine other strong women.

Look at Nancy Pelosi and Jane Harman. Harman is one of the Democrats leading defense intellectuals, and, by seniority, should have chaired the House Intelligence Sub-cttee. Well-qualified, intelligent; problem: she’s not just a woman, she’s also a fellow congress-woman from California and a potential rival to Pelosi, down the line. So Harman gets the axe.

Strong men will generally support other strong men.

If you really haven’t noticed this yet in life, then you have not lived much.

-wolfe

 
Comment by Gabriella LaPlace
2007-02-14 10:41:17

It’s still unclear, I need examples and specifics, but you don’t have to give me any, cause I know that I’m just getting annoying.

 
Comment by Necroswordsman
2007-02-14 10:30:42

Gabriella LaPlace said:

I’m not trying to shatter your psyche. I just thought that that was the reason. Guess not.
Anyway, Backstabbing refers to things like what? It’s unclear

Whats unclear about backstabbing? How about betrayal, mistrust, easier for you? You wouldn’t understand the reason why.

 
Comment by Gabriella LaPlace
2007-02-14 10:13:45

I’m not trying to shatter your psyche. I just thought that that was the reason. Guess not.
Anyway, Backstabbing refers to things like what? It’s unclear

 
Comment by Necroswordsman
2007-02-14 06:12:02

Gabriella LaPlace said:

Well, I guess he’s just some pissed man who can’t get a girlfriend. Or maybe he’s secretly gay.

Awww how cute. She’s trying to shatter our male psyche. Pathetic isn’t it.

Dear, let me tell you this. Just because we don’t like most women, doesn’t mean we’re gay. We may be close, but this is what your female brain doesn’t understand. Men can be close together like brothers, but not gay, because we have comradeship. Women? Backstab you at a moments notice.

 
Comment by sonyad
2007-02-14 02:03:16

Or, just maybe, you’re overtly and unabashedly stupid.
Hmmm, I’ll just have to call Occam’s razor on this one… flaming idiot she is then.

Do you have any clue how much your writing resembles that of some hypothetical dimwitted cockatoo? It’s not like divisions of cunted idiots haven’t already pulled that same exact womanly shit out their ass innumerable times before you waltzed your ass round.

Kindly piss off the site.

- Sting - Shape Of My Heart

 
Comment by Gabriella LaPlace
2007-02-13 22:56:17

Well, I guess he’s just some pissed man who can’t get a girlfriend. Or maybe he’s secretly gay.

 
Comment by Billy
2007-02-13 22:34:31

He is a lawyer. And where women are better at getting information from grey matter they don’t have much grey matter to gain information from. So they pass a lot of useless info around to the white matter in their heads. It’s bounces around until it somehow finds it’s way to her pie hole and embarrasses us all.

 
Comment by Gabriella LaPlace
2007-02-13 22:19:07

“This, according to Rex Jung, a UNM neuropsychologist and co-author of the study, may help to explain why men tend to excel in tasks requiring more local processing (like mathematics), while women tend to excel at integrating and assimilating information from distributed gray-matter regions in the brain, such as required for language facility. These two very different neurological pathways and activity centers, however, result in equivalent overall performance on broad measures of cognitive ability, such as those found on intelligence tests.”

you 4 got to mention that men are better at math and women are better at languages. Stop making one-sided articles. You could be a lawyer. lol.

 
Comment by Elitist_Prick
2006-08-23 21:24:14

[looks at Big Al and starts a slow clap]

 
Comment by sonyad
2006-08-23 08:41:22

If it’s of any solace, at least women aren’t top heavy. Well, not in the head at least.

 
Comment by Big Al
2006-08-23 06:01:46

Link to further evidence, including the following quotes:

Put more colloquially, this means women are more prone to hysteria than men, which will not go down well in some quarters.

“These different proportions of men and women with high IQ scores are clearly worth speaking of and may go some way to explaining the greater numbers of men achieving distinctions of various kinds for which a high IQ is required, such as chess grandmasters, Fields medallists for mathematics, Nobel prize- winners and the like,” Irwing said.

Simon Baron-Cohen, professor in the departments of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Cambridge and an expert in autism, firmly believes that the female brain is hard-wired for empathy and the male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.

-Big Al

 
Comment by sonyad
2006-07-22 08:56:29

Yeah, only read about them switches afterwards.

 
Comment by wolfe
2006-07-22 08:13:50

Heh. Their manufacturing costs are actually higher, given the quality of the keyswitches. And that’s really the biggie. I’ve been using an old (and dying) 1987 IBM keyboard; I bought 5 at a liquidation sale in the 90’s and am left with 2, 1 at work (dying) and one at home (nearly dead).

Getting a keyboard with that kind of feel to it is great. And no labelling… heh… freaks everyone out that’s walking by. Looks cool too.

And most importantly, guaranteed… means the woman in your life won’t want to use your computer at all if she can help it.

-wolfe

 
Comment by sonyad
2006-07-22 02:01:46

Brilliant idea. Reduce manufacturing costs by doing away with the key labeling all the while spinning it off advantageously through marketing. I like the jet black col. tho.

But you can achieve the same effect typing with your eyes closed, like now, on a regular keyboard and still have the labels present for anyone else that might need them and the computer. Just need to know where I am in relation to the keyboard (a fabulous price of $ 2.50 back in the day, still as ugly as shit tho.).

I think I’ll plug in another mouse for my lefty, see if I too can become ambidextrous. Alas, I don’t have another mouse and pad to match the LogiTech MX310 and QcK Steel I’ve had for awhile now. The largest size of it you can take in the wilderness and tent on it. It’d probably ‘pwn’ your regular bed & sheet too.

I still have the same monitor (a tired old philips fart), speakers, keyboard and parallel printer and scanner since 97. Was that ever a clusterfuck with WinXP drivers for parallel peripherals like these. I still can’t turn on both at the same time or all hell breaks lose.

Only the case and stuff in it have changed over the years.

Talk about buying quality shit every once in a while instead of plain shit all the time.

 
Comment by wolfe
2006-07-22 00:01:57

Thanks guys, especially Biff with the phrase “Google Fu is strong with this one”. Google Fu… I like that.

I wasn’t going to bother typing it up (fortunately I do abt 80-100 wpm and had this fun new keyboard to try out — no labels on any of the keys — awesome!), but she was somewhat annoyingly silly. The googling took me under 60s, the reading under 5 min, and once I saw the Aroma-of-the-month club and “Young Living Essential Oil Independent Distributor #232142″ associated with her “scientific” research, I just couldn’t resist responding.

The 5-10 min of playing with the keyboard Darth Vader leant me was the longest, alas. [commercial link, but I'm utterly unaffiliated with them].

Astromuffy, if you really were trying to be sensible and rational and logical, then I am sorry… it’s rude to engage in a battle of wits with the unarmed. But if that’s the case, this is not the site for you. Sorry.

-wolfe

 
Comment by Stimulation
2006-07-21 17:49:18

eeekkk.. Score one for men. Wolfe just owned astromuff with her own information.

GJ wolfe.

 
Comment by sonyad
2006-07-21 03:30:46

Course, you can just take Wolfe on his manword and copypaste his links and citations.

 
Comment by biff
2006-07-21 02:40:12

wolfe said:
Very interesting, Female… I mean Astromuffy. You give a couple of quotes, claim they’re credible information from credible sources, but provide no citations. I take the trouble to find out what they are and comment on your sources, and you come back calling me a liar, but refusing to provide citations. I’ve gone and proved what I said . . . . . . . . . .

The Google Fu is strong with this one.

 
Comment by biff
2006-07-20 06:00:30

Reminds me of the quote

“The only consistent feature in all of your dissatisfying relationships is you.”

Dysfunction

 
Comment by Big Al
2006-07-20 04:14:03

wolfe said:

Very interesting, Female… I mean Astromuffy…

Leave her alone, wolfe.

It’s not her fault.

The moon’s probably in Taurus or something.

-Big Al

 
Comment by Luka
2006-07-20 02:45:39

Why on earth would I support muffy? Why would her ramblings or rantings have anything to do with me or my opinions and views?

 
Comment by sonyad
2006-07-20 02:21:26

Oh snap. The panda strikes back.

Luka, aren’t you a little harsh on muffy? Shouldn’t you be, like, supporting her on her mission in this bastion of male chauvinism and mysoginy?

Not that I mind or anything, ‘cept people will say we brainwashed you or smth. to that end. Even worse, that you’re not really a woman but a supportive troll. Pls. don’t take this the wrong way.

 
Comment by Anon
2006-07-19 22:58:47

astromuffy is not Female. You can trust me on that. Nice job jumping to conclusions wolfe.

 
Comment by wolfe
2006-07-19 21:31:02

(links are in text form so Dick’s spam filter doesn’t zap me).

Very interesting, Female… I mean Astromuffy. You give a couple of quotes, claim they’re credible information from credible sources, but provide no citations. I take the trouble to find out what they are and comment on your sources, and you come back calling me a liar, but refusing to provide citations. I’ve gone and proved what I said.

i did put in the effort to give credible information from credible sources, and did not resort to questionable sources

Evidently for you, Ben Best, Innersource of Ashland, OR, the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology and “Young Living Essential Oil Independent Distributor #232142″ and the Aroma-a-month Club are credible sources. I’ll support each of these linkages below, even for one as yourself.

astromuffy said:
wolfe, not sure if you are referring to the material ive provided or not, but if you are, you are definitely misrepresenting my sources.

a nice way of saying that you are fibbing.

which is not very nice, not very honest, and flies in the face of all this truth and integrity you seem to be on about…

And you, madam, are not very bright if you think anyone’s believing that.

That’s a nice way of saying you’re a cretinous cow.

Your quote:

“Stimulation of the basolateral nuclear group results in arousal and attention. Amygdala outputs tend to originate in the central nucleus, the most peptide-rich region of the brain, and are carried by peptide-containing fibers in the stria terminalis & ventral amygdalofugal pathway.�

from post 55 above, comes from an unfinished monograph by Ben Best, entitled The Anatomical Basis of Mind. It can be found here:
http://benbest.com/science/anatmind/anatmind.html

The part you quoted is from Chapter 9, Section III, halfway through the penultimate paragraph. It can be found here:
http://benbest.com/science/anatmind/anatmd9.html#connections

Best’s website can be found here:
http://www.benbest.com

He heartily extols life-extension, neutraceuticals, etc. He writes about the Kennedy assassination, cryogenics, and other fascinating things. He is probably a very fine man, and it’s good that he makes his well-written thoughts available on the web.

But any reasonable person spending more than a few minutes on his website would come away convinced that he does indeed push the idea of supplements (and diet) which will maintain or improve his energy levels and prolong life.

He may make no financial profit from this — unlike most sites of this type, his motives seem entirely benign — but as with a website extolling a specific religion for the reader, that site makes no financial profit either, but the term “pushing” certainly fits, in context.

I’ve no idea of his scientific background, though I again point out, as I did before, there’s no peer review of any of his work. It might be great, it might be awful.

To suggest he’s providing credible scientific information from a credible source is really pushing it. His work would need to be subjected to peer review for that.

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Next, you wrote:

exerpt [sic]from an article “why tapping works� by Ronald A. Ruden, M.D., Ph.D. [excerpt deleted]

in post 57 above.

As I stated above, that article is published by the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP).

Here is the paper itself, on the society’s own webpage, described as an ACEP article.

http://tinyurl.com/lczku

The study it refers to, as you quote:

A large study that involved over 29,000 patients was conducted using these tapping procedures. The remarkable results (Andrade & Feinstein, 2003)

was indeed performed, as I said, in Uruguay (and some studies in Argentina, that other bastion of heavy-duty publication). Here’s a google search of a phrase from the paper, and some of the websites it appears on:
http://tinyurl.com/lwkk8

“World Center for Emotional Freedom Techniques”
“ACEP - Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology” –
“Energy Psychology Interactive” — Sell DVD’s, courses and workshops.
“Process Healing” — Sell Self Help book(s).
“Magic of the Mind” — Sell Hypnotherapy, Stress Management training
“Emotional Freedom” — Telephone therapy @ $90/hr.
“Phobias and Fears — True Aromatherapy Options” — hypnotherapy, EFT therapy, and “Young Living Essential Oil Independent Distributor #232142″ and the Aroma-a-month club.

You can read the paper itself, from any of the above links, and you’ll note, as I said, the authors state: “NOTE: This paper was written for and appears in Energy Psychology Interactive: An Integrated Book and CD Program for Learning the Fundamentals of Energy Psychology (Ashland, OR: Innersource, in press).”

What I said was not only accurate, it grossly understated things. The coupling of this paper with “Young Living Essential Oil Independent Distributor #232142″ makes me seriously doubt its plausibility.

I will close again with the note that I was not the liar, my dear, and I will note again what I opened with.

i did put in the effort to give credible information from credible sources, and did not resort to questionable sources

Evidently for you, Ben Best, Innersource of Ashland, OR, the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology and “Young Living Essential Oil Independent Distributor #232142″ are credible sources.

Female, why do you act like such an idiot?
-wolfe

 
Comment by astromuffy
2006-07-19 17:38:55

wolfe, not sure if you are referring to the material ive provided or not, but if you are, you are definitely misrepresenting my sources.

a nice way of saying that you are fibbing.

which is not very nice, not very honest, and flies in the face of all this truth and integrity you seem to be on about…

if it’s not about me, then my apologies.

i did put in the effort to give credible information from credible sources, and did not resort to questionable sources just to try prove my own shaky hypyothesis regarding amygdala stimulation and frontal lobe response.

so, on top of the unwarranted insults and attacks, if you are doing what i think you’re doing, then you’re stooping to a level at which, you simply cannot be taken seriously, by me, the muffy of merriness.

and why am i merry?

because my expectations of people are low, and people always deliver on my expectations.

it makes my world safe, and predictable.

 
Comment by Luka
2006-07-19 17:20:17

Sadly it would appear so, Wolfe.

 
Comment by wolfe
2006-07-19 17:14:48

Heh. As someone said, welcome to our world, Luka.

For laughs I checked her references (I note she didn’t include links). Some guy pushing energy supplements and an outfit called the “Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology” that’s into “accupressure, chakras, and biofields”. The study she referred to was done in Uruguay and published by Innersource out of Ashland, Oregon in “Energy Psychology Interactive”.

I do not think ‘Innersource’ of Ashland is likely to eclipse the commercial operations of Elsevier (world’s largest scientific press) or the academic presses of Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, or even Queens/McGill anytime soon.

Even though I don’t consider myself an academic, I do occasional peer reviews of papers relevant to my field and informal reviews more frequently. That process, for good journals, is vital, and, as far as I can tell, didn’t happen here.

All that said, there may well be something to the methods in the study she cites… or they may be junk. One thing’s for sure; the study itself is virtually useless as is her citation of it. Results of large, genuinely double-blind, well-controlled clinical trials published in an authoritative journal would be required as a minimum.

Back to the original topic of this thread: women having 15 percent of men’s gray matter (related to intelligence). Where did that study appear? Oh, only in NeuroImage, perhaps the world’s leading journal for that field, and part of the Elsevier publishing group.

Certainly the credulity of many of the women that post here seems to reinforce that reduced amount of gray matter.

-wolfe

 
Comment by astromuffy
2006-07-19 16:57:56

sonyad Says:
July 19th, 2006 at 3:26 am - IP Man-Hash: 980cc8a8ac1a7

Oops. Someone’s not in the cheeriest of moods today. Muffy, you’ve angered the wolf out of the wolfe.

who’s afraid of the big bad wolfe?

he’s all bark and no bite.

no match for the three headed hell hound in my mind…

 
Comment by astromuffy
2006-07-19 16:53:35

hey, i just kept my word - i provided documentation that supported your claim, and i could even find any that really supported mine.

but, because i believe in honesty, integrity, and keeping my word, i posted it anyway.

but, y’all are staring to bore the fuck out of this little muff…gotta get outta here before i sink any further into the banal spirit of this little hell hole called man hash.

 
Comment by Luka
2006-07-19 16:13:05

Maybe if we ignore it or throw a stick or something it will go away?

 
Comment by astromuffy
2006-07-19 16:11:47

ok luka, here’s a bit more evidence on amydgala stimulation, and positive effects on human behavior.

you should really give it a shot - you can’t be happy in life as a malcontent ingrate.

if i find anything pertaining directly to enhanced frontal lobe functioning, and amygdala stimulation, i’ll bring it.

not to edify you, or the jerks who comment to my posts, but to vindicate me - the merry muff.

exerpt from an article “why tapping works” by Ronald A. Ruden, M.D., Ph.D.

We propose that tapping and other sensory stimulation increase serotonin in both the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala. The success of this technique requires that glutamate be first increased in the circuit by activating affect. We suggest the name ‘Affect Activation/Sensory Stimulation’ to encompass this general approach. AA/SS represents a paradigm shift for the treatment of these problems.

INTRODUCTION
In 1986, Dr. Roger Callahan discovered that tapping under the eye of an individual with a water phobia immediately and permanently cured this problem (Callahan, 2001). Tapping on specific traditional Chinese medicine acupoints in a specific sequence literally appears to throw a switch. After a successful treatment, disturbing thoughts decrease and the phobic response disappears, for good!

A large study that involved over 29,000 patients was conducted using these tapping procedures. The remarkable results (Andrade & Feinstein, 2003) covered a wide range of problems, such as specific phobias, panic disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, acute stress disorders, and anxiety-depressive disorders. This method was successful in 76% of the subjects.

 
Comment by Luka
2006-07-19 15:57:26

Yawn.

 
Comment by astromuffy
2006-07-19 15:51:12

ok luka, on to the other part, about stimulating the amygdala as a way to activate frontal lobes - i could not find anything written on that subject by a credible scientist in the field, but did manage to dig up this one snippet on the web.

for those of you men who have been complaining about wading through huge slabs of text that i copy and paste, i sympathise with how taxing this must have been for your puny, yet bigoted minds, so this passage is short.

it demonstrates very basic responses to amygdala stimulation.

“Stimulation of the basolateral nuclear group results in arousal and attention. Amygdala outputs tend to originate in the central nucleus, the most peptide-rich region of the brain, and are carried by peptide-containing fibers in the stria terminalis & ventral amygdalofugal pathway.”

ok, bring the man wrath!

 
Comment by sonyad
2006-07-19 15:44:44

Crack me a nut.

 
Comment by astromuffy
2006-07-19 15:31:29

and look! look at all the attention i’m getting! peel me a grape…

 
Comment by Luka
2006-07-19 14:55:09

astromuffy said:

you love me! you really love me!

If this isn’t confirmation that astromuffy is an attention-whore I don’t know what is!

 
Comment by wolfe
2006-07-19 14:40:35

Muffy: Your posts in general were referred to as ‘drivel’. The specific lengthy blurb written by a man was true, but irrelevant to the topic at hand. It was a non sequitur.

You didn’t back up your claims with man-logic. You didn’t back up your claims at all. You simply acknowleged a basic fact cited by Luka with a giant cut and paste.

although, i really liked the idea of dick taking me to a store and buying me a cookie, with me waiting, in bovine passivity for my little treat, a pat on the bottom

If it’s a cute butt, and your BMI is in the 19 to 21 range, and your age 18 to 29, I’m sure someone will pat it when you bring him another beer. No cookie though. Now chop-chop.

i never have to trouble my pretty little head with what’s really going on in the world.

Indeed.

-wolfe

 
Comment by astromuffy
2006-07-19 14:30:40

you love me! you really love me!

most of the ‘drivel’ i post is written, as one of you so aptly pointed out, by men, leading men, in their fields.

even when i follow the man rules, and back up my claims with man logic, i still draw scorn, and consternation from men.

although, i really liked the idea of dick taking me to a store and buying me a cookie, with me waiting, in bovine passivity for my little treat, a pat on the bottom, and i never have to trouble my pretty little head with what’s really going on in the world.

cookies for everyone!

ummmmm…cooookies….agghhullllll….

 
Comment by wolfe
2006-07-19 14:13:51

Summary for those joining us:

Astromuffy: The sun revolves around like something called the aoerth? And this revolution is what makes our hair shiny, and pets able to talk.

Luka: I think you mean the Earth. And it revolves around the sun. You do get vitamin D from exposure to the sun which might affect your hair, but this has little to do with the actual orbit. As for pets being able to talk (let alone because of the sun), I’m not aware of this being true.

Astromuffy: Oh. I’ll go ‘research’ this.
*later… much, much later*

Astromuffy: *giant slab of text talking about Copernicus* There!

mabtw.com: What!?

astromuffy said:
luka,

honey, you’ll never get anywere with communication skills like that.

I nearly splattered tea all over my monitor. Thanks to my mighty man-control I refrained.

you would be wise to follow my example, and dispense with the catty tude that is giving all us women a bad rep…

I think you are under a slight misapprehension as to who’s attitude is giving women the proverbial ‘bad rep’.

-wolfe

 
Comment by Big Al
2006-07-19 13:20:27

astromuffy said:
luka,

dug up the info!…

Note that when astromuffy pastes slabs of text written by men into this web site, she doesn’t bother to change the capitals to lower case. It makes some of her posts almost readable.

-Big Al

 
Comment by Luka
2006-07-19 10:07:55

Agreed biff. I am feeling your pain.

 
Comment by biff
2006-07-19 09:56:39

Luka, it is frustrating isn’t it? Welcome to our hell.

astromuffy said:

ok, this is just not fun.
not a rewarding way for me to spend my time…

Nor is wading through 90% of your drivel.

 
Comment by astromuffy
2006-07-19 09:47:18

luka,

honey, you’ll never get anywere with communication skills like that.

i said i would come up with evidence supporting both yours and my claim.

admittedly, i just took care of your end of it, have yet to come up with mine.

so, again, i’ve done what i said i would do.

by presenting evidence from an actual scientist, rather than taking your word for it, your claim is validated.

for the most part, in man land, i refrain from saying anything i’m not willing to back up with hard, man facts.

you would be wise to follow my example, and dispense with the catty tude that is giving all us women a bad rep…

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