Inferences of Observations

Observation 1: In the female brain, there are more connections between the right hemisphere (emotions, spatial reasoning) and the left hemisphere (verbal facility). In the male brain, these two hemispheres remain more separate. 

This is a scientific observation that, I believe, can be attested to in everyday life incidences. Often we hear of how women are more complicated than men, more flighty and emotional overall. I once watched some heinous television show called Tila Tequila in which a bisexual woman explained the difference between dating men and dating women. She explicitly said to the audience that women were very complex; that their expressions were hard to read, their feelings multifaceted. There was always something unsaid right under the surface. She reported, however, that men were unimaginably more simple to be in a relationship with. I believe that this observation traces a scientific explanation for this difference between men and women. (Or at least one of them.) I feel now that it is a general consensus that men are, generally speaking, more straightforward in thought and action than their female counterparts. It appears that the person making this observation discerning men and women has studied the cognitive wiring of both genders. In addition to this, the observation shows little signs of bias, simply stating the difference between mental make-ups in males and females.

Observation 2: The sidewalk is disappearing as a feature of the American residential landscape. New housing developments have them only if a township requires them of the developer.

I think that one of the main ideas we can infer from this observation is the ever-expanding obsession in our country and in the world with making our stuff absolutely huge. The size of our stuff--our houses, our cars, is how other people judge us. And the way other people, our peers, feel about us is of the utmost importance to the modern human mind. Vetoing sidewalks as part of the classical neighborhood structure adds more space for expansion of the homes within those living communities. This observation infers a certain moving away from the well-known and accepted layout of the American neighborhood. This statement also touches on the issue of safety as a regular part of residential life. No one thinks much of a sidewalk--they are simply there, people walk on them to stay out of traffic. But their absence in newer communities leaves us wondering why there are no surely safe places for pedestrians to stroll. I think that this statement implies a certain change in values of the American life, that one of the most basic structures of our society are being eliminated.