Guys are to apathic and girls are to empathic and its a problem. Change my mind

[Lombardo]

It's not that we, as separate genders, need to handle emotions in the same way, but in general, our emotional responses are influenced by hormones. Testosterone provides strength and a sense of power, creating a natural physical advantage over 50% of humans, the female counterparts.

People who obtain power without earning it can be uncontrolled, especially when their intelligence is below average or average. On the other hand, females experience periods of weakness due to their menstrual cycles and their lower testosterone levels combined with higher estrogen, which affects them both mentally and physically. This is not meant to be disrespectful; it's just an observation. Interestingly, despite these challenges, women's mental state doesn't often reflect this weakness.

Now, when it comes to pain and suppression, women have historically endured more due to male physical dominance. In the animal kingdom, male physical strength was crucial for clan protection, but our human society now requires intelligence and empathy to grow collectively.

Currently, most men hold positions of power, mainly because they inherently desire dominance or the urge to control. This may be influenced by hormones. While there seems to be a shift towards more empathy in men, it's likely because of societal rules that discourage violence and other negative behaviors.

To progress and evolve, women should recognize and embrace their generally empathic traits, which are highly valuable for helping others, including men, women, children, animals, and nature. Living symbiotically requires striving for balance, perhaps not a perfect 50/50 split, but equal representation of both genders in positions of power to bring intelligence and empathy to the forefront.

So, to all women, please recognize that if you are living in a developed "democratic" country where there are possibilities to gain wealth and/or political power, you should, for the simple reason that most men just don't care or only care about their own side/perspective. Empathy and intelligence, that's what I want to improve in the world, and women definitely can offer that better than men.

This is my opinion, and it's not about promoting feminism, but rather acknowledging and appreciating the unique strengths and weaknesses that each gender may have, and leveraging those qualities to bring out the best in all of us.

[ohsheeT]

Most people I know male or female are going to show one of those emotions when it's needed

Nobody has more of anything than anybody else.

It's how you were raised is how you see things just like your post that's your take on it and that's cool.

It's not a competition it's an emotion depending on how deep you feel it is the depth that you're going to take it when needed

And the thing is is everybody on this planet is different everybody sees and feels things different it's who they are on the inside it's how they are raised is what happened to them and during their young ages to their ages today that all has something to do with it and we are all different every single one of us nobody's better than anybody else nobody's weaker than anybody else some people are shy some people are bold some people are just jackasses some people are loving and caring everybody's been through pain that's what molds this to become who we become

[Anonymous]

This is fucking jibberish.

Apathy is not the antithesis of empathy.

Empathy is positive engagement, apathy is neutral, not negative engagement.

Not only this but you also take broad generalisations and rigidly assign them to genders.

Men are allowed to care for children and animals, I am not prevented from doing this by my genitals you fucking moron.

[Lombardo]

Watch your sodium intake bro. Oh and the definition of apathy isn't neutral either. Those words are just from the picture that I mentioned. All serial killers are apathic and totally not neutral AND mostly men so... I think I'm less of a moron then you are Goofy Guffrus

[Opinion Owner]

What the fuck are you talking about?

[Opinion Owner]

Quote 'All serial killers are apathic'

Other than telling you to just go kill yourself I don't even know what to do with this.

It's what scientists call 'not even wrong'.

[Opinion Owner]

What exactly are you basing your ideas on because it's not reality.

[Nemesis2k7]

agreed. this is nonsense. girls being more empathetic? pfft. when they want something, sure. otherwise i see most of them being total narcissistic bitches who gossip and backstab and are constantly taking selfies, and have to wear tons of makeup, just to go to the petrol station.

[PrincessBunBuns]

so tldr, something about women having less testosterone.


while we are biologically male/female/otherwise, traits for the sexes are a nature/nurture type of deal. i didn't really see the question, but i will assume you want us to “embrace” these natural traits.


it has to do a lot with the way we are raised. typically men who are raised by both parents and have a good relationship with their moms have more empathy, and women raised by men are typically “hardier”.


not much to do with testosterone, because last time i checked we’re a civilized society and to blame our lack of empathy on ape-like behaviors that have evolved over the last thousand+ years is dumb.


men’s incompetencies as humans are not the burden for women to fix. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[PrincessBunBuns]

I've met brutal women and kind men, kindness is not a predetermined disposition.

[Rosexøxø]

I suppose you’re right…

convinced me with the title and image. Will read the rest later and yes, sometimes I’m a rare exception, I’ve gone overboard with some apathy. Learned, and ofc has its pros and cons.

[ManOnFire]

The argument that women are more empathetic has never worked for me. Women are only empathetic for who they want to be. They pick and choose who they're going to try to understand or be sympathetic for, and that's for groups entirely across the board not just for men. I think what makes people feel like women are more empathetic is because when they really are, they do show it, and so because we see those instances, we have the impression that they are more empathetic and sympathetic overall.

White women in the 1800s and 1960s were no more sympathetic and empathetic towards blacks struggling than the white men. You just had a group of some who were and they showed that. Middle Eastern muslim women are oppressed and restricted in many of their societies, yet most of them are still largely anti-Semitic like the muslim men, and some of those cultures don't like blacks either, and the women in them are no more sympathetic and empathetic towards these groups than the men.

Sympathy and empathy is attributed to women as a general trait simply because when they are, they are very outward about it. But it doesn't translate to the overall spectrum of things.

[flautistnaturist]

It matters not, to change "your" mind, because all this website amounts to is people so vain that rather than to actually engage in quality, in-person relationships, it seems better to come on here and soapbox at an equally vain mix of disengaged people and impersonating chatbot instances. The tech overlords were even bold enough to warn everyone that the Internet as a whole is ever increasingly comprised of bs bot-faked impersonations, and rather than get to know lifetime friends in organic, mutually nurturing relationships, we come on here to feed our neuroses through this mousetrap of an Internet, meanwhile masses of people starve while we divert the funds which could feed them to time-wasting garbage online which at best only amounts to a soul-rotting distraction, given the context.

[rigmarole]

Men have such a lack of interest and concern that 90% of all patent filings are by men. Men see problems that humans face and take the time to come up with real solutions that change the world. Men are so apathetic, that over 80 percent of the 100 most popular novels were written by male authors. Men not only show interest and concern about human problems, they spend years crafting masterpiece works to explain those concerns to the world, and their so good at it that the ideas resonate with everyone. We could do this all day with many different point of human exceptionalism where men completely dominate. That's because men go the extra mile to do what needs doing.

[rigmarole]

The same can't be said for women... They really just don't care that much.

[Deformate]

Its just my opinion but it feels like you've taken a theory or an ideology and ran with it if Im honest, and then elaborated on an opinion. If I had to expand on what I mean, it felt more like I was reading a dig at men disguised as brevity for an equal point of view charade, which then became a rally call for women. An example of this would be attributing our places in leadership due to a desire for domonance and control, possibly affected by hormones. Then having women believe men only care about our side and not womens, then practically telling women to fight to sieze power.
Again, its just my opinion on how it came across. What went on in my head was a lot deeper, detailed and thought out but yeah, this was just a rough summary of those thoughts.

[Kaamraj]

Empathy means the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes and analyze the situation. Using that definition women are not empathetic, as they cannot put themselves in men's shoes, and neither can men do the same. Women are sympathetic yes, but that means little as they have no means of actually helping you from their life experiences as men and women are so different.

Men on the other hand are forced to be show empathy or at least sympathy because of their jobs and social obligations which are more public oriented. Police, fire, military, public works, doctors, etc. Women have a much lower representation in these public fields and show empathy or sympathy in more private fields e. g. family and that too only towards their children.

[TheSpaceGnome]

Everyone, male or female, is all 3 of those things, depending on the situation and topic. Individual people have different ideas about things like whats valuable and whats not, whats morally justified and whats not, whats smart and whats dumb, and whats interesting and whats boring.

[Anonymous]

Western women aren't the LEAST bit empathetic now... that requires awareness, of which Western culture thoroughly shits on now. Western guys are apathetic... unless you count panhandling as "friendship" or trying to appear like they're internet billionaire big shots. Western society is a complete self destructive joke now full of totally unaware people.

[bolverk]

Sorry but I disagree, everyone has the ASE pyramid in their mental make up, men are not limited to any one level, the same applies to women, everyone is different, they are each made up of various amounts of the pyramid no to people are the same.

[OddBeMe]

I would say the biggest variable in this issue is masculinity. I consider it “toxic” but that phrase is now toxic. Men see themselves as tough brutes who don’t cry or talk about feelings. They see gayness as bad and alpha male mentality as good.

It’s exactly what the book Fight Club was warning against. But I think Brads abs got in the way. As they usually do.

[disgustingweebtrash]

Women care more about what others think than men and in a society that prizes being morally righteous women will emulate empathy so they can look good in the eyes of others, they might even convince themselves that they are empathetic

[Deserter]

You get it, women being empathetic is a meme

[strateguy632]

your division along gender lines is too absurd to be worthy of a detailed response. obviously some men differ from others. and the dare "change my mind" announced arrogant in addition to foolish generalization

[Levin]

Real life ain't so black and white, Mr Lombardo.

[Lombardo]

Colerblind as fuck

[tiamatx]

Join team creator, leave team consumer, problem solved :)

[Nikki1989]

Women are obviously more empathetic than men, and anyone that says otherwise obviously doesn't know many women, if any.

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty sure this was written by a woman. Just sayin.

[jmsinaz]

Would it change your mind if I told you that you're using the preposition "to" when you should be using the adverb "too" instead?

[MountAverage]

I don't think that premise is true to begin with.

[KrakenAttackin]

It is completely wrong to say women are more empathetic than men.

[Anonymous]

"change my mind" is uber cringe dude.

[Deserter]

Women aren't empathetic