• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Imagine being in an extraordinarily high stacks situation with billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives on the line. Your ability to think logically and critically is vital to the success of your enterprise. You have perhaps a couple of hours to make a fully interrogated strategy with multiple levels of complexity and contingency.

    And just as you begin this seemingly herculean assignment… you develop a hard-on. Blood evacuating your brain to power your penis. In a matter of moments, the male brain has been starved of a fundamental ingredient for high end mental processing.

    This is why nations fail.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    As a dude, absolutely. Men are the most emotional people I have ever met. The only reason men think that women are more emotional is because they misinterpret emotional intelligence with being emotional. Y’all have had this figured out for centuries while the men have been bumbling idiots that’ll start a war just to avoid being feeling inadequate or sad for a few days.

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      It’s a weird disconnect like if I don’t acknowledge it, it’s not real, so if I don’t acknowledge my emotions they don’t exist. Well they do exist, acknowledged or not, understood or not, emotions are human. Refusing to engage with them simply means they’re free to run wild and direct your life, but acknowledged, understood and channeled? That’s intuition, it’s basically a superpower

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      Well, in the spirit of nitpicky infighting; it’s not necessarily how emotional people are that’s the problem.

      Edit: and you’re a reactionary for not articulating that nuance.

  • imperator@lemmy.ml
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    Based only on my personal experience and no wider data, I think that the odds are good that if a leader is male then he’s probably leading with his emotions rather than sound judgment.

    All but one of the female leaders I’ve met have had a stronger understanding of their own emotions and how to control them.

    • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.works
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      Well, women are taught from a very young age not only how to manage their emotions but how to manage the emotions of men around them too, so that would make sense.

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        and men are taught to shove their emotions deep down only for it to come out during thanksgiving or vikings games

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    Whaaaaaaaat?

    Name ONE time in history where a man let emotions…

    checks all of human history

    Okay name 47 BILLION times.

    Checkmate, atheists feminists.

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    lol my husband thinks so! No not really but he definitely thinks men are far more emotional than women

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      I don’t know about more emotional on average, but I can totally see how emotional repression can lead to bigger emotional outbursts.