My letter to Brian Williams:

Dear Mr. Williams,

I just watched your evening news show from January 14, 2008. This is in reference to the final feature in your news programme, i.e. The difference between the 2 sexes when it comes to the functioning of their brains concerning memory & emotions. I just want to start off by saying that I was raised in a huge joint family, and have had the good fortune to be able to observe members of both genders growing up. I have seen so many cases defying the stereotypes concerning the 2 sexes that I'm an avid believer in the role of nurture being the far more important factor in influencing behaviour than nature. In the case that you used as an example of the husband and wife having very different memories of their wedding day....is it not possible that they think in these different ways because that's how they were raised; that's how , as members of different sexes, they are oriented to reacting?
However, what surprises me even more is the confidence with which you show such features, most of which come acroos as favouring men (big surprise that is, I'm sure!). Would you get away by showing elaborate features on how black people's brains operate differently from whites? Or Jewish people's brains work differently from Christians? In this modern day fever of political correctness, whenever differences based on race, culture or religion are brought up, people get highly uncomfortable & start insisting that we shouldn't stereotype human beings and should ideally judge a human for who he is & how he behaves. Shouldn't we show the same respect when it comes to the different genders? I can give it to you in writing that if you separate a group of 100 Italian-American males into 50 men with flattish noses & 50 others with sharp noses, the brain functioning of the 2 groups regarding a particular issue would not be identical. Based upon that "research", would you arrive at the conclusion that Italian-Americans with flat noses think differently from the ones with sharp noses?
You "warned" us that there would be more episodes of this boy vs. girl difference in your future shows. I, for one, am not looking forward in eager anticipation. Who knows? Maybe I'll feel the need to write a longer note after viewing what the "future" holds. Thanks for allowing me to have my say.