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I think it's ultimately their choice as everyone has said, I would be sad if they do become independent because I love the country. I live in England and I suppose i don't know enough about it but I know the English are stereotyped as being arrogant which I hope isn't the main reason for their desire for segregation.

I suppose I don't know enough about what implications it'll have on society and the like. The one thing I do know is to go to university in Scotland costs if you are not Scottish but is free to the Scottish community- I always found this a sad idea but there wasn't anything I could really do about it except complain but of course it's their choice, their freedom. If they did become independent then would you need a passport to cross the border? Will going there be exactly the same as going somewhere like France (for someone from the UK) or will getting into it remain the same? What changes would be made?

Also, when will this vote be concluded?

This is quite an interesting topic, I do not completely agree with it. I do think that we are more similar then society wants us to think, there is always such a divide like "Women are confusing to men, men just think about sex", there are always amusing pictures on facebook or other sites highlighting the extreme differences between the genders. However, we are similar in so many ways like through our fears or desires but I think both socialisation and evolution have had a part in dividing us:

If we look at the evolutionary approach to gender roles then it talks of, due to women biologically investing more in children (like carrying them in their uterus' and breast feeding them) and men being stronger, our physical characteristics making us more suited to certain situations which then lead to them sticking and that is what we have today. Since men were stronger then they would go and hunt while the women stayed at home and reared the children due to a more caring nature. Of course this is just a theory, an unfalsifiable one at that but the alternative is saying that these traits caused women to become more empathetic and men to become more systematic (empathy-systemising theory suggested by Baron-Cohen). Another theory was suggested related to why the neanderthals died out (close relations to homo sapiens) which was because they didn't divide their gender roles, so females were out hunting along with their male counterparts whilst pregnant which may have caused a lot of deaths. Again, this can't be proved or disproved.

There have been families to raise children without telling anyone the gender of the child as they don't want any socialisation to get in the way of their development, they want them to choose for themselves how to behave and not be bound by gender stereotypes. I can see their logic and understand where they are coming from but I think gender is an important part of our society as it allows us to grow into our gender and yes, there are differences and some are quite large.

When children are developing, they need to identify themselves as a gender in order to progress in that category, once they have then they will observe the world and learn what is strictly "female" and what is "male" behaviour. They will pay attention to their own gender and add such behaviours to an in group caterogry e.g. they see a female nurse, they see that a nurse must always be female. Anything that doesn't fit or is part of the other gender schema then they ignore it (Gender schema theory posed by Marting and Halverson). You see kids all the time making references to how the other gender is "gross" or "boys have cooties" or "girls smell" but I suppose, does this really mean there is such a huge difference, this more shows what our society have taught us.

I think the main difference between females and males is brain structure, there has been research into it and has shown men to be much better at things like spatial awareness and systematic problems while females are generally better at empathetic and caring tasks. This doesn't mean that these traits are exclusive to that gender as men are caring and woman can solve problems but this is just on average. I'm female, I'm not great at maths but I can do scientific subjects and in fact I'm probably better at them then things like English literature and I am probably better then a few of the boys in my chemistry class as well. So, I still think there is a difference in our brain structure but the division is emphasised greatly by society and a lot of humour is put out there making fun of typical gender roles which probably enforces these ideas.

Sorry if this is muddled xD I had a lot of things I wanted to talk about, I haven't put them all down but I hope this makes sense O.o

What I want to know is what was going through their heads when they came up with these terrible ideas? Did they honestly think it would be a good idea?

Well, I draw and create graphical art but I have always fancied writing : D I love it when I do I just never get around to it. What about you?

You better not have broken the spam zone, that thing is fragile ;-;

Policemen are renown for getting lost and not being able to find their cars, that's why they have to arrest people.

Screw all these game consoles. I'm going to share my rocks with my friends.

You keep mentioning Mass Effect xD Are you trying to tell me something?

Oh I have, my sister has a friend called Jared but it's not a common name over here in the UK, I think it's more common over there is California America.

Today I discovered you could buy a sonic toothbrush. Nothing to do with Doctor who but I was intrigued.

I love the name Jensen xD and Jared is cool as well.