All this talk of left-braininess is actually very much on topic. We've touched upon the theme on
another thread (Men and Geekiness) sometime back.
Having spend much of my youth with other zit-faced boys all smelly and huddled in unventilated rooms full of sci-fi books and dragon posters, geeking out on anything ranging from role-playing games, computer games, favourite animal species, space exploration and war planes to fundamental scientific questions and philosophical debates. Maybe one or two girls joined us as regulars but ones who could somewhat comfortably be diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum.
Whether due to cultural or biological reasons, or both, boys and men seem to be, on one hand, more into "winning", and into belonging to the "winning team". It's kind of a primordial instinct. Yup, very childish, but it's there. On one hand, it can motivate men to immerse very deeply into a particular subject-matter in order to intellectually prevail over the competitors that represent personally uncomfortable views. This bratty motivation can then generate an impression of being extremely well-versed, knowledgeable and intelligent. To many sensible outsiders (I didn't say women, but yes, especially you guys) it just looks a little childish, with a bunch of nerdy and competitive kids lost in translation without seeing the forest from the trees. Left-braininess, unhinged, can sometimes create such a fog for self-awareness as to make very smart men look extremely stupid at the same time. MB is a case in point.
Another consideration is the dichotomy between holistic/intuitive and analytical thought patterns. Again, it could be cultural, biological or in fact simply my own subjective misunderstanding. But men tend to fall deeper into all sorts of rabbit holes, whether ufological or skeptical, political, conspiracy-theoretical, fringe or mainstream. Male thought patterns tend to be (while by no means
always are) more analytical and intensely focused on the specifics, while female thought patterns tend to sweep more broadly but cursorily. Almost as if there's some mutual complementarity. A match made in hel... heaven!