Topic: Dailies

Men Vs. Women

by

Leo Crocker Rogers

The Golden Gate bridge uses 80,000 miles of wire for its 36 inch cables. That is across the USA 26 times or around the world three times. The bridge can sway 27 feet off center. The design engineer, Charles Ellis filled 10 ½ volumes of hand calculations using my favorite, the circular side rule, and a clunk-clunk adding machine. The chief engineer, Strauss, died in Arizona.

A lady I know has a balsa wood bridge model in her home. Her son had made it as an entrance project for a university. It is dynamic. It is some three feet long. It shows construction techniques. It has curves and cutaways. The lady says that when workmen, men visitors, her men friends see it, they marvel and make comment. When women see the model, she says, they say nothing. Why she asked?

Give a woman a back hoe and you have destruction derby. Give a man four children, and you have house-hold topsy turvy.

Actual Experiment: Wearing earphones, a person head a word played in the left ear and a different word played in the right ear, simultaneously. Women heard and wrote down both words. Men heard only what was played in the left ear. Men decided what they need to hear and hear it. When watching the brain during such an experiment, the men’s brain showed a local activity of hearing. The women’s brain showed various activities of hearing.

Continuing the Experiment: They actually gave every woman a backhoe. There was total destruction with laughter at their clumsiness. The men learned, on the spot, to use the backhoe.

They actually had men and women dipper babies. The men observed the baby needing a change. Each removed the soiled dipper, cleaned the child, and put the new dipper on. Then, turned and asked, "What is next?" The women walked up to the child, leaned over began baby talking, contorting their face. When removing the dipper they talked to the child about the process of removing the dipper. When cleaning the child, they fondled the child almost petting the baby like a puppy. Again, when putting on the new dipper they talked their way through the process. Finally when the new dipper was in place, they picked up the child and cuddled it again talking to it in baby talk.

These were ordinary people.

But ordinary men and women are extraordinarily different.

One woman was so good at the backhoe that she became a jet fighter pilot.

There are always exceptions.

But, in general, men built the Golden Gate bridge.