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Sex, Gender, and the Election — Part 1 of 3

Deborah Ruf, PhD
10 min readDec 9, 2024

A Sex and Gender Specialist Explains the Primal Reasons Behind the 2024 Election

I first encountered Michael Gurian’s work in 2003. I started to buy copies of his book, What Could He Be Thinking? How a Man’s Mind Really Works so that I could both recommend it to my clients, the parents of gifted children, and sell it to them on the spot.

To make it easy on readers of this post, here is the synopsis of that book so you don’t have to look it up:

Having studied how boys and girls develop differently, Michael Gurian turns his attention to adult men in this entertaining, informative, and groundbreaking book on the male brain. Following two decades of neurobiological research, What Could He Be Thinking? answers the questions women and the world are asking about husbands, fathers, boyfriends, and coworkers. Mixing neurobiology with Gurian’s very readable writing style, anecdotes from everyday life, and a new vision of the male psyche, the book will satisfy the tremendous curiosity women and our culture have about the roots of male behavior.

Women know intuitively that men are different from them. What women are now just coming to realize is that the men they are married to, having sex with, working with, parenting with, and trying to fathom, act and think in very male ways, not only because they are socialized to do so…

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Deborah Ruf, PhD
Deborah Ruf, PhD

Written by Deborah Ruf, PhD

High Intelligence Specialist & Writer, Dr. Ruf writes about highly intelligent people from birth to very old age. www.fivelevelsofgifted.com

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