Men and women are different, you see...

"Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road," she writes. Men, however, "have O'Hare Airport as a hub for processing thoughts about sex, where women have the airfield nearby that lands small and private planes."

Like we haven't figured this out already. However there are plenty of good quotes in the article.

"Such as the part about how a financially independent woman may talk about finding a soul mate, but when she meets a prospective mate her brain is subconsciously sizing up his portfolio."

"Connecting through talking activates the pleasure centers in a girl's brain. We're not talking about a small amount of pleasure. This is huge. It's a major dopamine and oxytocin rush, which is the biggest, fattest neurological reward you can get outside of an orgasm."

The article has more on Louann Brizendine's book, The Female Brain and a little bit on Katherine Ellison's book, The Mommy Brain.

My favorite quote, however, is "It has become more OK to talk about brain differences between genders over the past few years." Tell that to Larry Summers, who was railroaded out of the Harvard presidency for daring utter such politically incorrect notions. I'm sure the Harvard Arts and Sciences faculty will react in the same manner to Brizendine and Ellison. Although I'm not holding my breath.