BTInsiders know full-well that the #15 FCIL often speaks its mind, save the times when he or she is running for office. In those cases, each and every word is carefully planned, orchestrated, and delivered with precise execution. Sure, they’ll have mishaps, but compared to the teleprompter-reliant #13 FCIR (ala Barak Obama), there’s no comparison.
Bob Costas has been one particular #15 to speak his mind. Last year during a football halftime show Costas gave his frank opinion regarding the murder-suicide committed by Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, saying “If Jovan Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.” Recently, Costas gave a piece of his mind again regarding ESPN’s decision to award Caitlyn Jenner with the Arther Ashe Courage Award, calling it a “crass exploitation play.”
“In the broad world of sports, I’m pretty sure they could’ve found someone — and this is not anything against Caitlyn Jenner — who was much closer actively involved in sports, who would’ve been deserving of what that award represents,” Costas said on The Dan Patrick Show (another rare media #15 where they usually rise to the top). “I think this is just a play to pump up the audience, the way lots of things are put on television to attract eyeballs — not because of the validity but because of whatever the kind of gawker factor is.” While Costas clarified that Jenner’s recent actions have taken some “measure of personal courage,” he stated that ESPN’s decision to award Jenner was merely to “attract eyeballs.”
Bruce Jenner, now known as Caitlyn, is yet another #15 FCIL. While the entire issue could be discussed from a million standpoints, we will approach it from one in particular … Jenner’s brain. Jenner actually told Diane Sawyer, another #15 FCIL, in their famous interview months ago that, “My brain is much more female than it is male.” We guarantee you, physiologically, such is not the case.
A man can undergo hormone treatments, alter their physical anatomy, etc., but changing his God-given brain (as well as Brain Type) is an entirely different matter. For one, the male brain is typically about ten percent larger than the female brain. The parietal region is also thicker in the female brain, making it harder for them to mentally rotate objects. “Women often report difficulty with spatial tasks, both on tests and in real life.” Thirdly, men rely heavily on the amygdala in the right hemisphere of the brain, while the female has a greater inborn capacity to engage both amygdalae. Males also have more gray matter, while female brains have more than 9.5 times as much white matter, the ‘stuff’ that connects various parts of the brain. “The frontal area of the cortex and the temporal area of the cortex are more precisely organized in women, and are bigger in volume.”
We actually could go on and on regarding the slight to large differences between male and female brains. All to say, Caitlyn will forever have the brain of Bruce no matter what he/she does. In terms of his hard-wiring, he will always see as a man and think as a man, simply because Bruce Jenner is a man.
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Wow! I had him pegged as a 13 FCIR or, barring that, MAYBE a 9 FCAR. My mom suspected him of being a 15 FCIL though. A 13 is more apt to have the kind of behavior and views he does, but it just goes to show that once again, it’s not always about BT stereotypes.
Thank you also for the bit about mentally rotating objects. On my amateur neuroscience blog, I wrote an entire article on that being one of the key differences between most male and female brains. You will find far fewer women, regardless of Left or Right BT dominance, who do well with that and other forms of spatial thinking. Whether I’m 13 or 14 CIR (I am clearly one or the other – check out the looser and poorer gross motor skills in my bowling video, also the absence of Left brain mechanics https://youtu.be/UvszbkxkteE ), I still do not possess the renowned spatial skills of most men of the CIR BTs. Most aspects of geometry were exceptionally difficult for me; that and physics were my hardest subjects (BEAL Walter Ray Williams took to physics far better, showing just how much of a difference this skill can be between the genders!). I have a 115 overall IQ (officially tested because of autism); 98 in the spatial subset and 134 in the verbal. That’s a huge disparity.
Finally, as to the white matter, and connectivity, thanks again for mentioning that also. The points BT has made about “Q1 doesn’t like to make the long analytic trek to Q4” don’t have nearly as much relevance when it comes to women’s BTs. I say “nearly as much,” for I still think my greatest weakness (and co-workers agree) is executive functioning, not analytics, which is Q3, not Q4. I can do analytics far better than control my outer environment. I think it’s easiest for me to reflect on the abstract inanimate realm of Q2, thus making Q3 executive functioning my furthest removed area. That would also make me BCIR cognitively, not FCIR.
Anyway, great job here. This is the stuff I especially love to see.
To make this matter a little more complicated, it’s possible Jenner may be part of a 6% group that exhibits strict male or female patterns across ten sex-linked regions:
http://mashable.com/2015/12/01/brain-male-female/#HA8gOWBAKSqN
“Our study demonstrates that although there are sex/gender differences in brain structure, brains do not fall into two classes, one typical of males and the other typical of females, nor are they aligned along a ‘male brain — female brain’ continuum,” the study researchers wrote Nov. 30 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ‘Rather, even when considering only the small group of brain features that show the largest sex/gender differences, each brain is a unique mosaic of features, some of which may be more common in females compared with males, others may be more common in males compared with females, and still others may be common in both females and males”
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“Only 6% of brains were internally consistent as male or female, meaning all 10 regions were either femalelike or malelike, the researchers found. Another analysis of more than 600 brains from 18- to 26-year-olds found that only 2.4% were internally consistent as male or female, while substantial variability was the rule for more than half (52%)”