That is such a lovely idea! My sister has been too broke to by birthday and Christmas gifts for the last couple of years and has become so creative and crafty and honestly it is really special to open a gift from her knowing that she spent such a long time thinking about what to make and then spending all that time so…

Can you get them like an IOU for a anniversary gift or something? It’s not quite the same, but it gives you an opportunity to show them how much you want to do something for them? My very good friend got married and I was not financially able to give them a gift for some time, so now they are expecting their first…

Oh NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOO! I have pretty severe germ-based anxiety and one of the reasons why I am not sure I want kids - I will worry just as much about their health as my own, but have very little control over what they choose to touch and pick up when I’m not there. This is a like my nightmare come to life. Shit,…

I went to an all-girl school so I was protected from this for quite some time. After school one day though, I was walking with my friend to catch the bus - we were both in school uniform and an adult man walked past us as said ‘you can both call me when you’re legal’. Ew.

yeah, same here in the UK where they are taxed as a ‘luxury’ ie ‘non-essential items’. There is a petition going around to try and get it changed since here is a list of ‘essential items’ we don’t currently pay tax on http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/things…. Aside from the fact that clearly sanitary items are…

I don’t think any of what you said contradicts or answers my original point that without a much greater, reductionist study of the individual behaviours/skills required to succeed at any given task, it is not possible to determine the extent to which either gender’s ability to perform that task is biological or…

Ah yes! I always take mine off to go in the sea because I just have horrible images of it slipping off and me never seeing it again! Have a wonderful wedding and honeymoon!

Exactly my thought! I have a much much much MUCH more modest ring that than (spoiler: I’m not a millionaire!hahaha), but it is quite sparkly and eye-catching so I deliberately went for a much simpler wedding ring because I felt like the expensive-lookingness of my hand must be proportional to the likelihood of me…

I don’t know if this is helpful but my job means that my ring might get damaged or it might damage the equipment I am working with, so on those days I often put it on a chain and wear it around my neck. It’s not quite the same, but I find if I don’t do this I would hardly ever wear it and I really love having it.…

sounds amazing! I have booked our honeymoon as a surprise for my fiance - I’m a little concerned he is imagining a place with loads of stuff to explore (that’s what we usually go for) but instead I’ve gone for all out luxury in a place with not much to do besides laze, swim, eat, and get sexy - otherwise I know I will…

Outdoor shower - that’s seriously fucking hot!

I have preemptively tried to explain this to my fiance - sooooo many people don’t because you are knackered after the wedding and just want to sleep so if we don’t it’s ok. But then our friends super-showy off, super-annoying husband won’t stop going on about they banged the night of and then again before breakfast…

I think perhaps you misunderstood what I was trying to say. I wasn’t trying to say that women wouldn’t excel in the same circumstance given an equal oppurtunity, in fact I made it quite clear that perhaps one reason women appear inferior in this particular circumstance is because they think it’s a male activity (so…

I am definitely not trying to suggest that all differences between the brains of men and women are innate - certainly neuronal plasticity, which of course applies to even the most basic types of learning, is dependent upon experience. ALOT of experience is different depending on whether you are male or female. I was…

As a neuroscientist, I can tell you the ability of the male brain to interpret reason is irrelevant when you are just a giant ballbag!

I don’t know, but sounds interesting.

Ughh I had a boss who was exactly the same - he insisted on going over the working out of everyone in his lab - like literally sit down and go through your spread sheet with you. And on more than one occasion he made me rewrite all of my formulas the way he would have worked it out. We got the same answers, because…

I think when you look at broader behaviours some of this is true, especially if you are looking at social interactions, but the type of behaviours I think that are involved in chess might be more inate. For instance, it’s been pretty well demonstrated that men and women represent space differently (hence the…

That’s very kind!

As someone whose research is somewhat related to this type of argument, men and women’s brains do seem to be different and there is a increasing volume of research that suggests that men and women solve mental tasks in different ways (not better or worse just different) and so it is entirely possible that one type of…