[Edit] I think people are misunderstanding my comment. In no way is this meant as something negative. I've just come to notice that most men don't do a little squeal when startled, but women do. I just notice these things and I'm curious why there's a difference.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I’m not sure this is generally true but if there was a difference it’d likely be due to social conditioning.

[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 1 points 2 months ago

Or have you never heard women do a little squal when startled? Most women seem to do that, while most men seem not to.

I'm just curious why there is a difference.

[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 0 points 2 months ago

I've heard the female screech pretty much all over western societies. I hardly ever hear men do that. So I was just wondering.

As an autistic person, noises trigger me, and that's why I noticed females doing it more than males.

If it is conditioning, it's something particular to western society, I suppose.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Not true, the fight or flight response is an automatic response of the nervous system.

The fight-or-flight or the fight-flight-freeze-or-fawn[1] (also called hyperarousal or the acute stress response) is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean technically all of human behavior is an automatic response of the nervous system. That doesn’t mean it’s not influenced by culture or personal experiences. What constitutes a threat is highly modified by your past experiences, and people can learn to behave differently in stressful environments. We don’t just completely turn off the brain when frightened, that’s nonsense.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

We kind of do but there's no sex correlation between the three responses. Except for mothers. They will go aggressive more often if their kids are involved. But that's not a guarantee or a norm, more like a statistical bump in the data.

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