Born Talkers

Dr Luan Brizendine says in her book, The Female Mind, that women talk almost three times as much as men, uttering 20,000 words a day – compared to an average man, who speaks 7,000. The disparity, apparently, is caused by differences in the male and female brain. Maybe. She also  states that the sex hormone, testosterone responsible for moulding the male brain in the womb, shrinks the areas responsible for communication, emotion and memory – meaning that men gossip less and struggle to express their emotions. A mans brain power is focused on sex, and they think about it every 52 seconds. We (women) apparently only think about it once a day. Also, the more we talk, the more we trigger a flood of chemicals which give us a rush similar to that felt by herion addicts on a high. I would love to meet Dr Brizendine, a self confessed ‘feminist’, whatever one of those is, and obviously an experienced heroin user.

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