Gender Identity: Is Nature vs Nurture Dead?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/31/Dr_Louann_Brizendine_The_Male_Brain

Dr. Louann Brizendine, author of The Male Brain, claims the nature vs. nurture debate is dead. Connecting gendered behavior to chemical disposition, Dr. Brizendine says, "you can retrain your brain circuits...all of our life we are gender-trained."

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Dr. Brizendine discusses her latest book, The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think. An article about Dr. Louann Brizendine and her research in her first book The Female Brain in a July 2006 issue of Newsweek started a media frenzy that led to appearances on GMA's "20/20" and "Good Morning America," NBC's "The Today Show" and "News with Brian Williams," CNN's "American Morning," NPR's "Weekend All Things Considered," "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" along with national print reviews and features in USA Today, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, O, The Oprah Magazine, Glamour, Elle, More, Discover, Health, and the coverage has not abated.

Now, Brizendine, founder of the country's first clinic to study gender differences in brain, behavior, and hormones, turns her attention to the male brain, showing how the "male reality" is fundamentally different from the females in every phase of life, from babyhood to old age. In The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think, Brizendine overturns the stereotypes about men and boys. Impeccably researched and at the cutting edge of scientific knowledge, this is a book that every man, and especially every woman bedeviled by a man, will need to own. - Dominican University of California

Louann Brizendine, M.D. graduated from UC, Berkeley in Neurobiology, Yale University in Medicine and Harvard Medical School in Psychiatry.

She served on the faculty at Harvard Medical School from 1985-88 when she came to join the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. At UCSF, Dr. Brizendine pursues active clinical, teaching, writing and research activities.

In 1994, Dr. Brizendine founded the UCSF Women's Mood and Hormone Clinic at LPPI, and continues to serve as it's director.

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[blackiron60]

Too often human beings are forced to bury who they are for the sake of the cultural prejudices they are forcibly taught to hold as sacred. Breaking free of harmful cultural prejudices can take a lifetime - just ask my dad, he was raised Catholic.

[stephenetienne]

She didn't say anything. She asked if "nature vs. nurture" for gender is dead. She said it was dead, then continued to talk about both in-born biological traits and then environmental and cultural factors. She didn't really support her assertion that "nature vs. nurture" is dead.

[Stephanii0409]

@stephenetienne How didnt she?...what she was saying is that the debate over which one (nature or nurture) is responsible for gender identify is dead because it is actually a mixture of both that determine gender not one or the other.

[happinesson]

at this point of time it is not Nature VS Nurture. after her discussion..it is now Nature AND Nurture..both contribute to gender preference..

[Phi1618033]

@stephenetienne She's not saying nature vs nurture is dead. She's saying the nature vs nurture DEBATE is dead. And it is, really. Most evidence points to the fact that we are born with pre-dispositions that are malleable, so gender roles are neither totally biologically nor culturally determined. Biology pre-disposes each sex to a certain range of behaviors (i.e. along a bell-curve) and culture can either reinforce or repress that behavior. Genes and environment, therefore, interact.

[BandWagon1987]

She seems no nice :)

[Jetson08]

@premium1823 Firstly, gender and sexuality are two very different things. Physical sex and sexuality are both things you're born with, while gender is socially constructed. And there's not more gay people all of a sudden, what your noticing is probly a mixture of wider public acceptance and your own increased awearness.

PS: Gay people don't only have gay offspring, just like straight people don't only have straight offspring. Gay people reproducing would not lead to more gay people.

[premium1823]

if we can be gender trained ..then we should be able to train the gays back to being not gay???? i dk from my friends they say they are born like that.... now if they cant reproduce how are there more and more of them???

[ASP1NALL]

the environment influences the behaveiour of a creature while genetics amplify those effects to some extent, watch the new zeitgiest movie

[papercutpictures]

what is she/he trying to say? it seems like the slides got mixed up.

[melikeydajuice]

@blackiron60 you have to take these statements with a grain of salt. unless they can study every human ever alive its just a theory. my parents never forced me to be anything i wasnt. i wasnt told not to cry but i didnt because it doesnt solve anything or accomplish anything. my dad is catholic and he wasnt anything like what she describes.

[SirWinstonChurchill]

@venomousspiderwookie

Mammals can only evolve with heterosexual relationships.

Religious faggots hate this fact.