Neurology Rules!

Great news from the CBC...

Men are more rewarded by video games than women on a neural level, which explains why they're more likely to become addicted to them, researchers at Stanford University claim ... Researchers saw activity in the brain's mesocorticolimbic centre, the region they said is typically associated with reward and addiction.

So you know what this means guys? We can just play away to our hearts content knowing that it is our physiology which prevents us from stopping. What can any wife or girlfriend say to that? "Um, you need to free yourself from your physical handicap"? Don't think so. Not that I think it's great to have a handicap or anything, I just want to exploit it, that's all.

I mean, you can even take it to the next level. If God didn't want me this way, then why did he make me like this?

This is like the time where I got Heather to admit that she has no long term or short term memory. Score! I just won every argument for the rest of our lives. "Oh, didn't I take the garbage out last night? Well if you had any sort of memory, maybe I could believe you. So sorry." And then you say "NOT" in your head afterwards, in an addictive fashion, then retreat to play more video games.

Furthermore...

The scientists also found that three brain structures — the nucleus accumbens, amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex —influenced each other more in men than in women, and the better that circuit was connected, the better the males did in the game.

So we are also better at video games. Maybe that isn't what's implied here, but I'm going to read it that way. So next time Heather beats me at a game of mario kart, it's just pure luck, like it was the 349837 times before that. Come to think of it, this would explain a lot about why she was asking me for help so often in Zelda Phantom Hourglass.

It's not sexism, it's just the way we are. I don't complain that my breasts aren't big enough.