Heres a thought, and i know its not going to be that popular…. how about more fat, ugly, or normal looking people? I mean i know that would have a hit on the ratings, but if everyone does it, maybe people will desensitise a bit, and attitudes would change. maybe 12 year olds would start to like who they are rather than who the media says they should be.

I know people use film and music to sometimes escape from reality and that is fine, but why not make the reality people are escaping to a little more normal?? Virtually every girl i know says she is overwieght and then i went on holiday and saw the real world about 90% of the women on the beach looked like they had been cross bred with elephant seals. Well ok thats harsh, but you know what i mean.

Knowing some of my friends I thought this might be handy ;)

Busy not multitasking.

The short answer to this question is no – but then neither can women.

Maybe i should expand upon that point a little. The brain multitasks – we can walk, talk, breathe and look where we are going at the same time, and the world would be funny if we could not – but what people are normally speaking about when talking about multitasking is the active thought processes. Its a common perception that men are synchronous and women are asynchronous.  women do tend to balance many balls in their hands at once, where as men take a task and follow it through to completion (well most of the time). Its ridiculous to say men can’t multi task though.

Fighter pilots are an easy example of a situation where men definitely do multi task – in fact if you have ever seen some of the test equipment the RAF use to determine how well men multi task you would be quite surprised, i remember one of the tests there was this annoying game with shapes coming across the screen that you had to interact with – more shapes come on the screen at once. I can imagine trying to fly an airplane if you couldn’t multi task. you would never be able to dogfight.

Is it true women multitask better than men? I honestly don’t know the answer to that question, but it is possible. The way men and women do things is definitely different, i remember a documentary once where they did psychological tests on a woman and a man, and then spent 6 months giving the women testosterone and monitoring the changes in her. It was very interesting.

Multitasking does get a series of jobs done quicker, but i am not so sure it necessarily gets a job done better.