Sex, Gender, and the Election — Part 2 of 3

Applying Brain Chemistry to the 2024 Election

If you missed Part 1 and want to see the introduction to this second part, it’s called Sex, Gender, and the Election — Part 1 of 3. A Sex and Gender Specialist Explains the Primal Reasons Behind the 2024 Election

Nov 22, 2024

Applying Brain Chemistry to the Election

All this neuro-biology was a huge factor, I believe, in the elections. Men have an innate advantage via biochemistry in climbing hierarchies; high testosterone men live in a hyper-drive to prove their strength because they are wired by their dominant hormone for that. Donald Trump is one of those men.

But women win elections throughout our country and the world (Thatcher, Ghandi, Meir, Nancy Pelosi, Patty Murray, et. al.) when they match their male (or female) opponent in shows of strength. They do this each in their own way by integrating empathy and aggression into their actions/words with show-of-strength as paramount in their own mind’s eye. “I need to be strong,” they say to themselves. “To be strong, for me, means…….” They fill in the blank and go forward focused on that strength. Where male candidates must biochemically work on infusing empathy into their strength, female candidates tend to work on…