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> It is known

No, it really isn't. It's just your biased stereotype.



Yeah, men & women are exactly the same & any conclusion otherwise is sexist/biased/anti-feminist/whatever. /s

We (men & women) are different... (not "better or worse"). There is nothing offensive or biased about that.


I agree. But i don't see how you can go from that to assuming women are necessarily more emotional. You kind of need some data to back that up. Note that men murder and kill and rape at a high rate due to their emotions.


If I assume men are more emotional, do I deseve the same backlash?

Fuck PC culture. (Sorry, I am in a bad mood today. Irony unintended.)


We could perhaps say that men and women both experience strong emotions but that both the emotions and the way they've been socialized to express them are quite different.


Fair enough, but your posit breaks no ground... Nothing learned.


Especially if you don't want to.


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Personal attacks are not allowed on HN. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't.


I must take some blame there. Sorry.


just for the record -- i'm not in favor of wacko pc crazies either.


Unless you ask who is a better boss. Then the feminists will happily tell you that women are the better bosses because they have more empathy and so on...

(For what it's worth, I don't subscribe to the 'women should take care of children because they are more emotional' theory, but I find it funny how people pick their stereotypes on a whim).


That's very interesting, because (anecdotally) the women I know prefer male bosses. The reason being that in their experience male bosses prefer to manage by objectives ("I want you to do X") whereas female bosses try to manage their subordinates emotions ("I want you to feel Y"). The latter seems to lead to greater workplace tension.

If this is indeed a broader phenomenon, I makes me wonder if the same forces (genetic or environmental) that lead women to be more empathetic (which we might judge to be a good thing) do not also lead to the aforementioned emotions management. Of course, this is all highly speculative.




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