• NaoPb@eviltoast.org
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    2 months ago

    I’m just wondering why some women respond with screaming when something happens when some men just take action. No anti women speech intended. Just curious.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t know, I’m a man and I respond with screaming to most things. My gatherer woman is kinda sick of it btw

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        2 months ago

        I’m a man and I scream when something scary and surprising or unstoppable happens.

        I remember a couple of years ago, I was getting breakfast, half asleep, and out of the corner of my eye, a mouse climbed down the kitchen cabinet and ran under the stove and I had no idea what it was at first, just some moving blob, and it scared the shit out of me and I screamed like a child.

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      2 months ago

      I’m not sure this is generally true but if there was a difference it’d likely be due to social conditioning.

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        Not true, the fight or flight response is an automatic response of the nervous system.

        The fight-or-flight or the fight-flight-freeze-or-fawn[1] (also called hyperarousal or the acute stress response) is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival.

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          I mean technically all of human behavior is an automatic response of the nervous system. That doesn’t mean it’s not influenced by culture or personal experiences. What constitutes a threat is highly modified by your past experiences, and people can learn to behave differently in stressful environments. We don’t just completely turn off the brain when frightened, that’s nonsense.

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            We kind of do but there’s no sex correlation between the three responses. Except for mothers. They will go aggressive more often if their kids are involved. But that’s not a guarantee or a norm, more like a statistical bump in the data.

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        2 months ago

        I’ve heard the female screech pretty much all over western societies. I hardly ever hear men do that. So I was just wondering.

        As an autistic person, noises trigger me, and that’s why I noticed females doing it more than males.

        If it is conditioning, it’s something particular to western society, I suppose.

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        2 months ago

        Well imagine a car accident happening while people are walking on the sidewalk. There’s always a couple women doing a high pitched screech out of shock. However I hardly ever hear men do it when it’s almost gueranteed to trigger this response in women.

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          I think you’ve watched too many movies. If you’re watching YouTube videos you may just not realize that those are full grown men finding new octaves in their vocal range.