Whitney Cummings Hacks the Female Brain

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🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Comedian Whitney Cummings talks about the humbling experience of being a first time director on her film The Female Brain, how she learned that every moment doesn’t have to be a joke, and why she says The Female Brain isn’t just for the ladies. She shares how she broke free of a cycle of co-depency once she started understanding the neurochemistry behind her bad choices and why she says it’s a lot harder to come up with jokes when you don’t have all that none-stop drama. Whitney weighs in on the Me Too movement and hints that the new Roseanne reboot (which she's executive-producing) might just help us understand how middle-America went for Trump. Plus, Whitney talks about being a lady comedian in the Middle East, those women who see Marilyn Monroe as a feminist role model, and how she almost accidentally killed Sofia Vergara. The Female Brain opens in theaters Friday, February 9. For more information, visit www.ifcfilms.com. Order Whitney’s very funny book I’m Fine…And Other Lies on Amazon, and you can keep up with her at www.whitneycummings.com or on twitter at @WhitneyCummings. Today's episode was sponsored by Google Cloud AI. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:25.4	I'm sure you've heard the old cliche, men are from Mars and women are from Venus.
1:30.0	And although the best science seems to indicate that guys and girls are still in fact from the same planet,
1:35.8	breakthroughs in neuroscience have revealed that the sexes have very different brain chemistry at play,
1:41.4	which might be at the root of so many marital spats and misunderstandings.
1:46.0	Neuroscientist Luanne Brisendine wrote about it in a 2007 best-selling book The Female Brain,
1:52.0	which analyzed brain scans to show how various hormones influence how a woman processes information and makes decisions.
1:59.0	The book, which has sold nearly a million copies and been printed in 30 languages,
2:03.6	was an eye-opening revelation for many women, including comedian Whitney Cummings,
2:08.0	who says the female brain changed her life.
2:10.6	So much so that she decided to bring the female brain to an even wider audience by making it not just into a movie, but a comedy.
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