This’ll shock you: men’s and women’s brains are different. Who’d’a thought? That’s why men are so much better at football, the obvious benchmark for high level cerebral activity. Along with throwing, parallel parking and the inability to iron a shirt without burning it. And scratching your testicles.

So for years they’ve been performing tests on new drugs for horrible things like strokes, like Altzheimers, all manner of nasty brain stuff, to produce new medication. Most of the testees (as opposed to ‘testes’) are men, and neuroscientists have found that contrary to intuition, these results can NOT be simply extrapolated to women. The drugs don’t work, as the song goes. Because men’s and women’s brains are different. Not just store different stuff, as we’ve always known, nothing to do with nagging or shopping, but fundamentally, profoundly, biologically different. And they’ve been scared to say so.

Because of political correctness, the findings from research have been left unpublished because they’re frightened of upsetting equality groups, feminists and other big, burly people who pack a punch.

But now its out there. Because women are so hormonal, it affects the structure of the synapses and the total ‘wiring’ of the brain.

So next time you ‘forget’ to pick up the dry cleaning, paint the bathroom ceiling or bring the dog back from its walk after a quick stop at the pub, just blame those pesky synapses. “If only I had a little more oestrogen acting on my cortex, it would all be so different…”

I actually don’t understand why advances in medical science would be buried for stupid PC considerations. There’s no implication that men’s brains are better, NOR IN ANY WAY WORSE (he hastens to add) just that they are structurally different. Which is probably why my pastry always falls into my chicken pie when I bake it. And in a way this vindicates virtually every excuse I’ve ever had to make to women my entire life. “You don’t understand!” and now, apparently, its true.

I’ve always appreciated the differences between the genders. Just not in such a… errrr… kind’a… ‘brainy’ way.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx