Are women more emotional than men

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#6684By suresh on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - 7:40 pm

Are women more emotional than men? Or let me put it this way- Are men and women equally rational? Why do women cry so easily and men don't? Is it because men are are not supposed to and/or trained not to exhibit their feelings so fast, in public or private? Is crying a weakness and/or exhibits weakness? Please help me understand all you worthy men and women.

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#6721By mysticsdream on Thursday, September 30, 2004 - 10:33 am

Suresh I would feel a little more comfortable if you stopped posing questions like a professor, perhaps if you shared more what your views are we might enjoy real communication.

If you could you try and keep the amount of conversational topics you wish to engage on at any one time to a few that would help to give a considered response.

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#6728By suresh on Thursday, September 30, 2004 - 11:10 am

Feeling uneasy already...Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon themselves....I don't say that..Shakespeare did...I do not also know as to whom does it apply, me or you or to both..

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#6744By Albert on Thursday, September 30, 2004 - 3:19 pm

Remember that I am not worthy. Having said that, I will not have a further say.

I don't think I want the question of who is most emotional answered. It is obvious to our hormones first of all that there are differences.

I simply think we should celebrate the relationship of man and woman and learn an grow from it.

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#8633By JO on Monday, August 01, 2005 - 9:40 am

I think society 'allows' women to be more emotional, but no, Idon't think they are.

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#8638By Carlan on Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 12:15 pm

Emotion is another ambiguous word of the English language and being such we can draw upon that word to cause people to feel guilty, to feel remorse, to feel subdued, to feel exhilarated, to feel sad, to feel happy, and to feel in control.

Emotions mean different things to different people. With the proper emotional stimulation we can conquer the highest mountains in the world, we can travel through space, we can progress humankind to unheard of heights, we can propel ordinary people to battle for ideals and traditions and policies that we ourselves do not fully understand, and we can kill and pillage and rape other people without feeling anything of any real consequence to ourselves because we can feel that we are right and they are wrong.

Yes, men and women generally react emotionally differently under differing circumstances differently. However, any woman and any man can react differently at various times when put under the same very stressful situations differently, also. A meek woman can turn into a killer if her child is being attacked and the strongest man can turn to jelly when his dearest friend is left to die while lying in his arms in the street. No man and no woman can be emotionally predictable under all and every situation that may occur or that may be occurring to that person at various times in that person’s lifetime. One time the woman breaks down and cries and the next time she picks up a gun and kills. One time a man picks up a gun and kills and the next time he blubbers and cowers beneath his own bed sheets. However, generally, we think that we are emotionally stable under most conditions that we have faced so far in our lives, but in the very next moment we can be faced with a danger or a grief so terrifying that we unconsciously pee our pants and poop our pants and call out for our mother and our father and our God to protect us from all things and everything bad. Yes, life for us from day to day is uneventful and mundane but that does not mean that in that very next moment that the sky will not open up and let all that is good or all that is bad fall gently or hard on to our poor unprotected heads.

I am what I would call a very emotional man. My emotions I wear on my sleeve where all can see most of the time. But like so many other people I wear my deepest emotions under my skin where only those people and those animals closest to me can know they exist. I believe that our deepest emotions come out to be seen or to be felt when something that means the world to us or seems to mean the world to us makes them come out but until those times they stay just beneath the surface where we can allow them to simmer and to bake until the dinner bell rings at which time we can let them be served.

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#9164By nikki on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 3:15 pm

i want the answer of the question, dat, is suffering a gendered concept?

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#9173By crossquad on Friday, February 03, 2006 - 5:08 am

Greetings:

.....Men worship sports.In sports they are in a
setting where emotion is played down,sore losers need
just a little push to start a fight.Also in war,when
your leg is shot off,it's better to get out of reality
and go into shock as soon as possible.Women go into
emotional woozy to help children feel like their boo-
boo is important,while men tell them just to spit.

by(e)carg

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#9174By Carlan on Saturday, February 04, 2006 - 2:57 pm

The conception of suffering on any of us is a personal one. It is personal when we are the person directly involved in some personal way with that particular conceived suffering. Others could be and are often collaterally made to feel some of that suffering in one way or another way but mainly the person directly affected is the one person that feels that suffering the most. If our child is killed or maimed or is taken forcibly away from us we of that child’s direct and immediate family members are the most affected by such a suffering turn of events. Others like friends, government officials, neighbors, radio and TV and Internet audiences and newspaper and magazine readers and some other interested parties are effected in their own ways more or less but they are not made to feel such suffering as does the immediate family members and friends would feel.

Some males and some females will suffer more or less than will some of the other males and females in these groups of sufferers but who does suffer the most or the least is always difficult to figure out because some people show their internal suffering externally and dramatically but many others will show very little if any external or dramatic suffering but under that hard shell there will often lurk a deep hurt and a deep actual concern. What these suffering events tell me is that when they occur and to whomever they occur the people directly involved hurt and hurt deeply and profoundly wherever they live.

Many men do worship sport’s teams and sport members but many men worship women, trucks, automobiles, motorcycles, political figures, powerful machines, chess masters, heroes of all kinds, the person with the most toys, or the most followers, or the most money, or the person with the most notoriety or fame or the most talent, and the person that has the biggest muscles, the biggest boobs, the biggest club, and some of us are attracted to the magnetism of the hype and the glory and nothing else. I think many women are attracted to these many things and people as well.

I see losers everywhere. I see a particular loser every time I look in the mirror. I see losers back-biting. I see losers yelling and screaming and fighting. I see losers skulking off silently to lick their wounds to come back and try to win another day. I see losers telling untruths about the winners. I see losers making up excuses about why they lost. I see losers blaming the weather, the officials, the (to them) unfair regulations and rules, and of course, I see losers taking it on the chin time and time again.

I never lost a limb or an eye or anything like that, so, I do not know anything about such tragedies. I was in a toboggan accident one evening and when everything finally stopped I looked quickly behind me and saw my foot turned in the opposite direction from where I was facing and I, instinctively, and quickly twisted my body around so that my foot was looking to me in the same direction as I was now facing. I thought that that episode was quite traumatic enough for me, so, I am thinking that if I have to lose a foot, or both legs, or I have to lose an eye or I am made to be paralyzed that I would be a very poor patient and very unforgiving man. In other words, I would be a very hateful and disgruntled fellow, indeed!

I like to think that I wouldn’t be that hateful fellow and that I wouldn’t be a person filled with self-pity and self-loathing and hate but I am thinking that I would be all of that and more. Would I give up on myself, of that, I am unsure but from here it seems likely I would.

I like the mother and the father that makes their children’s hurts to seemingly go away with their soothing voice and their nurturing words. I, also, like the father and the mother that makes their children face those hurts as the hurts that they are and then makes them understand that those hurts are readying them for tougher tasks ahead of them and lets them get up and charge ever forward and ever onward.

Spitting whilst in a civilized society has always been frowned upon and nowadays with aids and HIV and whoever knows what other contagion that may be spreading amongst us through spit, spitting at someone or on someone must not be condoned or allowed anywhere for any reason whatsoever. Spitting into a container or a tissue meant for such spit is okay but the container or the tissue should be properly disposed of or cleaned hygienically.

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#9276By Oz on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 2:30 am

If the world dealt with one person at a time, rather than generalizing, we would be a lot better off.