Man Versus Woman

I never really thought about what makes a man a man or a woman a woman because I thought that I had reasonable grasp of what it meant to be a man or a woman. However with recent discussions it has become clear that not every man or woman falls into a specific and well defined category. Some women are masculine while some men are feminine. Some men are passive and some women are aggressive. It is quite difficult to say what, exactly, constitutes a man and what constitutes a woman with so much variation between the sexes.

While this may be the case, I still believe that there does exist dramatic differences between men and women that may serve to suggest that men and women are very different and separate on some fundamental level. Maybe it has to do with the biology, specifically neurobiology and how the man's brain is wired for sex versus the way a woman's brain is wired for sex. In a study by Roy Baumeister a psychologist of Florida State University he found that men did indeed possess a greater sex drive then women and this also proved to be the case with homosexual men and their lesbian counterparts.

I don't know if men and women fall into one specific type of gender role, but this area of difference does appear to be one in which men separate themselves drastically from women, and can be subject for further debate of what a man is versus a woman.