science

I'm a man and I scream when something scary and surprising or unstoppable happens.

I remember a couple of years ago, I was getting breakfast, half asleep, and out of the corner of my eye, a mouse climbed down the kitchen cabinet and ran under the stove and I had no idea what it was at first, just some moving blob, and it scared the shit out of me and I screamed like a child.

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.

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.

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.

Well imagine a car accident happening while people are walking on the sidewalk. There's always a couple women doing a high pitched screech out of shock. However I hardly ever hear men do it when it's almost gueranteed to trigger this response in women.