MAN MORE SENSITIVE?

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1931, Page 6

MAN MORE SENSITIVE?

COM J’.\ It IvD WITH WOMAN. The common notion that women are more sensitive that men is disclaimed |,y a Sydney doctor, who said that there is ample proof to the contrary. Recently a judge declared that nine nut of 10 girls who gave evidence in certain cases could not he believed. It is not that most girls are untruthful, according to the doctor, but. especially in cases where a criminal has to he identified, a girl’s memory is far less sensitive or reliable than the average man’s, and she is, therefore. :ipt to form a hasty conclusion. In other ways girls prove less sensitive than men. For instance, they can stand more cold. In summer the surfing girl gambols in the waves long after her male counumious have come out. In winter women are at)..: to wear less than men, and they do not scorn to feel the hot weather, either. A typewriter mechanic, who handles dozens of machines every week, said that girls have a heavier touch than men. A motor car salesman said women were clumsy compared with men, and seemed to have no idea how much strength to use on gears and steering wheel. According to an optician, more men wear glasses than women, which might he taken as indicating that the, male' eye is more sensitive than the female. A woman, he said, required a tape measure to find tlm middle of a wall, hut a man could halve a bottle of beer within a margin of a spoonful without nnv trouble.