You do know what sound a crying baby makes, and you are more sensitive to it than a man. That's the way you are wired. [Unless you are a woman with a masculine patterened brain or vice-versa]. Experience and expertise are not relevant, as they are obviously learned, not part of fundamental differences.
I don't understand how Omni is insulting when it's accurate for every other organism on the planet [with some notable exceptions, natch].
It's also accurate for us. The difference occurs when we attempt to extend beyond the capabilities evolution has furnished us with using intellect.
Men are better at some things than women, and women are better at some things than men. That's sensible, accurate, well-proven and incontrovertible.

What makes everything so complicated is that as homo sapiens we use our intellect to make everything we do easier, faster, more effective.
Until you take the factor of intellect out of the equation there can be no accurate comparison of male-female ability. Nor should there be because it's pretty much pointless these days, but to deny fundamental differences is blinkered and unscientific.

Evolution has, over millions of years, designed women to care for children, and men to hunt. Nowadays of course this is meaningless as our intellects have allowed us to rise above set gender roles. The difference still exists, and will for a good while yet.

Apologies for lack of teh funneh - clunge.
(NiplyTheElder tried to slip clunge into a conversation on, Mon 28 Dec 2009, 12:32, 1 reply)

Yes I do know what sound a crying baby makes
A fucking annoying one. The point was that I wouldn't be able to differentiate the meanings of the cries and couldn't care less. Other peoples spawn are gross and I don't have any of my own nor plans to make them.
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 4:00, closed)