The differences between male and female thinking in Wonder Egg Priority

The following first paragraph is from one of my assignments in a course that I took in graduate school,

which I recently finished. I also used the video for this reflection in that assignment (I used it for what

one of the characters said):

Interestingly enough, in a recent episode of one of the new anime this season that I am watching, one

character says that men are goal-oriented and women are emotion-oriented. The episodes of this anime

air every Tuesday, so it happened to be before I started reading ahead for this current week. The

readings for this current week also happen to include an article about male and female brains being built

differently. “This could mean … that men tend to see issues and resolve them directly, due to the strong

connections between the “perception” and “action” areas of their brains, while women might be more

inclined to combine logic and intuition when solving a problem” (Khazan, 2012, p. 2). In other words,

men are usually goal-oriented, or usually think more with the left hemisphere of their brains, and

women are usually emotion-oriented, or usually think more with the right hemisphere of their brains.

Even though it was referring to differences between male and female suicide when it was said in the

anime, I still think the idea that men are usually (not always) goal-oriented and women are usually (not

always) emotion-oriented is a good way to understand the differences between male and female

thinking.

I wrote this first paragraph in early February of this year during the time that the anime Wonder Egg

Priority was airing most of its episodes. I waited until now to post something about the anime because

it aired a special episode yesterday (that's when I saw it), so I was waiting to see what would happen in

the special episode and if it would change my thoughts about the series or add some new thinking to my

thoughts about it. What the special episode did instead is make me understand it in the light of my

thoughts about the series before seeing this special episode since it did not make much sense to me. In

other words, what helped me understand the special episode is what I thought about the series before

seeing it, which is that the thinking of the characters was influenced by either their emotions or goals

depending on who they were. For more of an explanation of the ending, check out the following link:

Reference

Khazan, O. (2012, December 2). Male and female brains really are built differently.

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