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The Male Brain: Why Men Think The Way They Do Louann Brizendine explores the physical bases for sex differences in her new book By  Diana Kapp  | February 08, 2010 12:00 p.m.  You might want to try to keep your own personal pet caveman in the dark on this one, but in her inevitably best-selling new book,  The Male Brain (Broadway Books), neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, MD, officially, scientifically lets guys off the hook for skirt-chasing, conking out after sex, avoiding emotionality—even spending Sundays glued to ESPN. Yes, it seems that Brizendine set  The Female Brain , her 2006 best-seller, to “marinate in testosterone”—her fave phrase for describing how gestating brains, which all begin as female in the womb, become masculinized about half the time—in order to produce the male bookend to that work, a “brain’s-eye view” into men’s psyches that gives them, well, a big, fat 262-page excuse. Despite accusations leveled in publications from Nature  t...

Apple's "Boobie Apps" Banning Resulted In the SuicideGirls' Removal BY   GIZMODO STAFF Today Apple claims they  removed those 5,000 boobie apps  because  women were complaining over the "degrading" and "objectionable" content . Correct me if I'm wrong, but the removal of the SuicideGirls' app--which actually empowers women--seems most questionable. Sure, the free app features nudity. If you count nudity as being of the bras 'n knickers kind. But when the site was set up by a woman, and populated entirely by women, it just means Apple really does have to define what criteria an app has to meet before it's pulled down. Tarring all titillating apps with the same brush, yet allowing some cases such as  Sports Illustrated 's app  to remain on the  App Store  will end up backfiring on Apple--and I'm sure this won't be the last time we hear about the SuicideGirls' app, with the community being very, very vocal. The app ac...