Biology in Men and Women

So, I'm back for Thanksgiving and I came across this show on KTEH. This doctor is talking to an audience, of white men and women (who can probably afford to be at a lecture like that) about the biological differences between males and females. And dang, was it interesting.

For one, I feel like its really problematic to say that these biological differences are the only factors that allow men and women to be different. Did he consider social factors that would allow these biological difference to come out? Not really.

What I found really disturbing was when the doctor talked about his wife. His wife, he described, was not cuddly, liked masculine dogs, and was really assertive. But then, she was diagnosed with some sort of disorder where she had too much testosterone. After taking a bunch of medicine, she was much more affectionate and got a small dog. What is wrong with women being more masculine and assertive? What is wrong with men being more feminine? His tips were based on a standard of what women and men should be. Men are football playing idiots whose 70% of their brain shut down when they are relaxing and women are nagging sensitive beezies whose brains are 90% working when its "relaxing". But when a female moves away from that, is she being what people would call back in the days, a "deviant"? Can we not recognize that indigenous people before colonization actually had women as the leader of tribes, as the aggressive ones, etc?

And don't even get me started on how heteronormative this is. I wonder what he would think about queer folks. RAWR. Stupid science.