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Give me a brain like that
The new knowledge about the androgynous brain brings a lot of positive things with it. We’re all just more alike than we thought. Those 50 percent with an androgynous brain benefit greatly from this. The research has shown that these people are less susceptible to depression, are more creative and can adapt better to others in society.
The less your brain is tied to gender, the better. In addition, this also means that non-binary people or trans people do not have to be ‘stuck’ to a brain of a different gender, because the androgynous brain is now seen as the norm. So good news. Unfortunately, if you want to find out what kind of brain you have, you need a special scan.
Long live science
Society has always made a distinction between men and women, so it was thought that this could also be explained in the brain, without ever having investigated this properly. “This way of thinking is harmful,” neuroscientist Gina Rippon tells me The Guardian. ‘The idea that there was a male brain and a female brain led to pigeonhole thinking: different character traits were attached to one brain or the other. That girls are not cut out for science because they don’t have a ‘science brain’, or that boys can’t be emotional and always have to take on a leadership role. That’s all nonsense.’
Exactly that, Gina. Long live the twenty-first century and its science with women.