Ask A Genius 106 – The Headless Chicken and Reward (Part 2)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/03/03
*This sesssion has been edited for clarity and readability.*
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Scott Jacobsen: By the way, the research seems to pan out for this being a much bigger issue (educational issue) for boys, and these boys that become young men.
Rick Rosner: That makes sense because it is much more easy to operate male genitals than female genitals.
S: Yea, but this is cognitive, this is cognitive.
R: Yea, okay. You’ve got the corpus callosum. Stereotypically, and I don’t know for sure, the corpus callosum is thicker for women compared to men.
S: On average.
R: On average, yes, and stereotypically…
S: By women and men, you mean the difference between XX-XY rather than the self perception of social role.
R: Let’s not get into that. Let’s just say XX-XY.
S: I’m just thinking about the genetic package that you come with that influences your cognitive package.
R: Yea, and speaking of packages.
[Laughing]
R: It is easier for men to have orgasms. Men can have orgasms under more circumstances than women. I would guess.
S: Yea, yea, absolutely, I think that’s a perennial truth.
R: I would think women would need to feel, on average, a number of things. Not just physical sensation, there needs to be some kind of connection. Maybe, some sense of safety, even in scenarios where the—anyway, it makes sense guys are easier to—guys’ thinking tends to be less global than women’s thinking.
S: Yea, this shows up in surveys. If you ask men and women, ‘What do you look for in a mate?’ Short-term mates, men and women do not differ much. They look for someone relatively healthy, good looking, and who looks like they would have a decent time with, on average. If you ask long-term, the differences are stark. The men do not change much on average. The women add, maybe, two dozen distinct variables such as ability to provide— so job, job prospects, education, a job with the ability to move up, or simply income, or status, things of this nature.
R: You can see it in strip joints.
[Laughing]
Guys go in and see hot young women. That’s all they need to see. But if they can imagine it further, it is known that skilled female strippers can groom clients, making clients think that they’re the stripper’s special friend. That they’re the preferred client. This allows the clients—the guys who are folding the 20s in half and tucking them in the G-strings—to imagine some rudimentary fantasy being with the stripper all of the time because she is having a terrible home life.
Or there’s the stripper in college myth: ‘Oh, I’ll pay for her way in college.’ Women go to strippers and might see [Laughing] guys with good bodies…
[Laughing]
…but do not have their shit together. One of the most skilled strippers that I’ve ever worked with at PT Show Club in Denver is Todd the Bod in the 80s.
[Laughing]
Todd was tall. He was tanned. He knew how to move. He had good muscle definition, but I think Todd had 4 kids by 4 different women. [Laughing] It’s harder for women to imagine taking Todd the Bod home for more than the night. It is hard to build a fantasy life around Todd the Bod because he’s not friggin’ Bruce Wayne. Billionaire by day and guy who is weeny wagging by night. Although, that would be a great character.
It is a bunch of guys working at carpentry at Colorado Coal Company. Boulder’s less good strip club in the 80s. The other strippers and I—I was this mess and the other strippers were carpenters during the day—only had one stripper costume, which was the Carpenter. [Laughing] They’d get out there—this is 1981, 82, 83—stripping down there to their tool belt and the knee socks that people wore in the 1980s.
That’s not as take-home-able as a 19-year-old messed up girl. Anyway.
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