vegetariantaxidermy wrote:dionisos wrote:Actually it's been scientifically proven that there are male and female brains. Some men have more strongly female brains and vice versa.
Then why call it female/male brains ?
Probably because it's a brain-type that most women have, or most men have, but it's not set in concrete? How else could they describe it?
I think a less confusing way to say it, is that a female brain is the brain of a female, and a male brain is the brain of a male.
Then you could say that most female brains are of a type, and that most male brains are of another type.
The goal would be to avoid that a "female brain" mean "the brain of a female"(the "natural" meaning), and another time "a particular kind of brain that we think female have more that male", to avoid some misunderstandings and reasoning errors.
Maybe it is cumbersome, but i think it is more wise.
Just to give a example, you could see that for two kind of brain A and B, this two kind of brain could be much more often women brain that male brain.
And still, a man could have a type A brain, and not a type B brain.
This is obvious, but more hard to see if you call the type A brain, a "female" brain. You will not see that you could have also call the type B brain a "female" brain, even if it is two different type of brains.
And finally, it will be less obvious that what you call a "female" brain would change depending of the properties you are looking for.