No, I don't think so. Anger is also an emotion, which some guys are really good at expressing. They think we're emotional for crying at cute animal videos when we're on our periods, but apparently boys aren't emotional when they punch walls, scream their lungs out at sports events, or shoot up schools and malls. :)
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If you're talking about them being more "emotionally reactive" then yes. If you look at other parameters like empathy it's the same.
As for situations like this: "I’ve seen boys just fulls on rage just because of being rejected or me saying they did something even the slightest bit wrong." Those are not equivalent scenarios between men and women. The same event happening to a woman does not necessarily have the same level of repercussions as on a man. So their reactions become hard to compare.
I think its a myth, being emotional in some situations does not have anything to do with gender. But in some cases (for example, pregnancy) women are more emotional. İn my case, guys are more emotional than me.
Everyone is emotional in different ways it depends on the person. I wouldn’t say either is more than the other. I’m a person who has crazy mood swings in my eyes but may seem completely calm to others and a guy I know might seem completely irrational with his emotions but because of what he’s going through at that moment he might be acting up but overall be more level headed than I.
I would say most men under 35 are not very manly anymore. Most strike me as girlie men. So if you guage younger men, yes, emotional.
Older, more stoic and if they have emotions, you won't see it unless they get pissed off. If they do show it, most older guys see it as weakness. Even if you lose your arm, or whatever. Stone cold is the way.
Your examples are due to men’s biology. We don’t like being challenged even if we like the challenge. Us getting rejected is y’all knocking us down a peg and if you say we do something slightly wrong challenges our view of what we did. Also since you’re 14 most guys that age haven’t matured enough to control themselves. But in general women cry and express emotions more.
Guys get angry and are more prideful. Girls get sad and get more anxious, happy, frustrated, and jealous. I've seen women's emotions change much more rapidly than guys' emotions. But, zoomers And millennials are more feminine than previous generations, so now with guys being told to express themselves more when our primary emotion is anger, you get guys impotently screeching everywhere.
Women cry over sad movies, broken nails. You talk about your feelings more than guys etc.
Also you're 14. So I'm guessing the guys you're talking about are teenage boys who're going through puberty, hence the lack of self control over their anger
Men produce 7x more total testosterone than women. Women have much more estradiol than men. These hormones have polar opposite characteristics in a lot of ways. If you were to go to an endocrinologist, they would tell you how much our hormones have an impact our behavior and emotions. What you’re suggesting is biologically false.
Men have been the ones to go out and fight the wars while the women were home with the vulnerable ones. I. e. children.
Men being able to shove emotion aside to protect or to take the cold decisons where there is only the least bad option requires ignoring the intuitive perspective at times.
But men feel and feel very deeply. Women manifest more because it is socially safer for them to do so.
Then women better learn to shove their emotions aside and protect themselves quickly, or we better go back to sexism. It's crazy how we (as a society) are trying to remove all traditional roles from women so they can be and do whatever they want, but at the same time we are telling men that they need to be strong, stoic, traditional men. Then we also tell men that modern women want an emotional man, so now he has to be strong, stoic, traditional, manly, and now he also has to somehow be emotional... but not too emotional because women still want a traditional protector and provider, she just wants a modern protector and provider who won't question her, will let her do whatever she wants, whenever she wants, and he'll do both his traditional job and half of her traditional job as well (cause women want to split the chores now adays but not the bills).
Either give up on protector/provider and protect/provide for yourself, or else go back to traditional because this bs hypocrisy makes it impossible for us to know what women actually want. Many of us are still willing to serve you like traditional men, but if you want tradition gone then you have to accept that men will focus on serving themselves instead of you. We aren't here to protect and provide for you like your father, we're here to be in a loving relationship with someone we view as our equal. Either embrace tradition or reject it, this hypocritical nonsense where we embrace it for one gender and reject it for the other needs to go.
In my opinion, both genders are equally emotional, just in different ways. Specifically, jealousy and anger don't have a monopoly on one gender or the other.
They express emotions differently. Also boys are taught to internalize their emotions and as politically incorrect is it for me to say this: it’s a good thing. Men need to be tough/stoic. But they also need a place to privately ventilate their emotions and/or get it out through productive activity (sports, fitness, work).
But just a heads up just because a man doesn’t show his emotions do NOT assume everything is okay. Be careful what you say to them. They aren’t bulletproof.
I feel that other boys and men including myself we're kind of taught at a young age to hide emotions and now it's kind of second nature for many guys and it's a hard habit to break when you don't even realize you're doing it. Also I think the testosterone equals aggression thing was a myth and it had a little to no impact or very weak link to aggression. Guys are raised and taught differently and females and thus act differently when they grow up. That's the best answer I can give.
I think it's adherence to a sociological mold more than any real difference. Psychologists believe that whst we believe are rational decisions made by the later developing neo-cortical region of the brain but the current theory is that decisions are made based on emotions, both men's and women's from the deeper, older limbic part o0f the brain. After the decisions has been made, it get's rationalized by the executive functions that are part of the neo-corteex
They’re less in control of their emotions and allow their emotions to control their decision making; they also have a much harder time identifying their emotions. Who am I talking about? Females obviously. Men are as emotional but we learn to manage them and understand them early in life, females never learn.
Did you read the article you posted? It clearly states "Women do appear to react more negatively to unpleasant experiences in experimental settings". So, going by the evidence, I would have to conclude that women are more emotional. It also matches with my actual experience.
Lol more studies have always shown that women are emotional than men.
Boys are direct, lol and girls don't show directly they attack indirectly they don't like direct confrontation so they wait and pounce at right moment.
Men do things more direct and finish it off and forget about it this is wrt to your opinion.
These are general studies which she mentioned that there are studies that disapprove that women are more emotional similarly there are more studies which say women are more emotional can check out in Google
the estrogen level at least have an effect on emotions. PMS is real xD https://www.webmd.com/women/guide/estrogen-and-womens-emotions I also remember hearing trans women feeling a change in mood/emotions when taking estrogen. But I guess it does depend on how you define being emotional.. is it expressing it more or feeling higher lows and downs?
Feeling higher lows and downs. Expressing your emotions is separate from being emotional, think of women who were beaten by their husbands for years while hiding it. The fact that she hides her bruises and her tears doesn't mean it hurts less. Likewise, a child who cries for an hour straight because he had his toy taken away, the fact that he expresses the hell out of that emotion doesn't make it worse than people who have suffered for years. Some people hide their pain and others wear it on their sleeve, others have very healthy levels of emotional expression.
Generally they are yeah. That doesn't necessarily mean they are more empathetic or loving... they are more EVERYTHING, which can be pretty volatile XD they need a stable and rational man to keep em in line. This is the general rule, there are tons of exceptions of course, but it leans in this direction
Just ask a Trans who began taking Testosterone and went on Estrogen HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy). I have read that compared to being a testosterone saturated male, to block testosterone and take estrogen makes them highly prone to extreme mood swings and way too much crying, in general. That appears to be universally agreed among tham.
yeah but changing hormonal balance in any direction does that. Not saying less T and more estrogen doesn't make a more emotional human being, but it's not a compelling argument
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No, I don't think so. Anger is also an emotion, which some guys are really good at expressing. They think we're emotional for crying at cute animal videos when we're on our periods, but apparently boys aren't emotional when they punch walls, scream their lungs out at sports events, or shoot up schools and malls. :)
If you're talking about them being more "emotionally reactive" then yes. If you look at other parameters like empathy it's the same.
As for situations like this: "I’ve seen boys just fulls on rage just because of being rejected or me saying they did something even the slightest bit wrong."
Those are not equivalent scenarios between men and women. The same event happening to a woman does not necessarily have the same level of repercussions as on a man. So their reactions become hard to compare.
I think its a myth, being emotional in some situations does not have anything to do with gender. But in some cases (for example, pregnancy) women are more emotional. İn my case, guys are more emotional than me.
Everyone is emotional in different ways it depends on the person. I wouldn’t say either is more than the other. I’m a person who has crazy mood swings in my eyes but may seem completely calm to others and a guy I know might seem completely irrational with his emotions but because of what he’s going through at that moment he might be acting up but overall be more level headed than I.
I would say most men under 35 are not very manly anymore. Most strike me as girlie men. So if you guage younger men, yes, emotional.
Older, more stoic and if they have emotions, you won't see it unless they get pissed off. If they do show it, most older guys see it as weakness. Even if you lose your arm, or whatever. Stone cold is the way.
Your examples are due to men’s biology. We don’t like being challenged even if we like the challenge. Us getting rejected is y’all knocking us down a peg and if you say we do something slightly wrong challenges our view of what we did. Also since you’re 14 most guys that age haven’t matured enough to control themselves. But in general women cry and express emotions more.
Guys get angry and are more prideful. Girls get sad and get more anxious, happy, frustrated, and jealous. I've seen women's emotions change much more rapidly than guys' emotions. But, zoomers And millennials are more feminine than previous generations, so now with guys being told to express themselves more when our primary emotion is anger, you get guys impotently screeching everywhere.
Women cry over sad movies, broken nails. You talk about your feelings more than guys etc.
Also you're 14. So I'm guessing the guys you're talking about are teenage boys who're going through puberty, hence the lack of self control over their anger
Men produce 7x more total testosterone than women. Women have much more estradiol than men. These hormones have polar opposite characteristics in a lot of ways. If you were to go to an endocrinologist, they would tell you how much our hormones have an impact our behavior and emotions. What you’re suggesting is biologically false.
Men and women process emotion differently.
Men have been the ones to go out and fight the wars while the women were home with the vulnerable ones. I. e. children.
Men being able to shove emotion aside to protect or to take the cold decisons where there is only the least bad option requires ignoring the intuitive perspective at times.
But men feel and feel very deeply. Women manifest more because it is socially safer for them to do so.
Then women better learn to shove their emotions aside and protect themselves quickly, or we better go back to sexism. It's crazy how we (as a society) are trying to remove all traditional roles from women so they can be and do whatever they want, but at the same time we are telling men that they need to be strong, stoic, traditional men. Then we also tell men that modern women want an emotional man, so now he has to be strong, stoic, traditional, manly, and now he also has to somehow be emotional... but not too emotional because women still want a traditional protector and provider, she just wants a modern protector and provider who won't question her, will let her do whatever she wants, whenever she wants, and he'll do both his traditional job and half of her traditional job as well (cause women want to split the chores now adays but not the bills).
Either give up on protector/provider and protect/provide for yourself, or else go back to traditional because this bs hypocrisy makes it impossible for us to know what women actually want. Many of us are still willing to serve you like traditional men, but if you want tradition gone then you have to accept that men will focus on serving themselves instead of you. We aren't here to protect and provide for you like your father, we're here to be in a loving relationship with someone we view as our equal. Either embrace tradition or reject it, this hypocritical nonsense where we embrace it for one gender and reject it for the other needs to go.
In my opinion, both genders are equally emotional, just in different ways. Specifically, jealousy and anger don't have a monopoly on one gender or the other.
They express emotions differently. Also boys are taught to internalize their emotions and as politically incorrect is it for me to say this: it’s a good thing. Men need to be tough/stoic. But they also need a place to privately ventilate their emotions and/or get it out through productive activity (sports, fitness, work).
But just a heads up just because a man doesn’t show his emotions do NOT assume everything is okay. Be careful what you say to them. They aren’t bulletproof.
This is the most bullshit thing i've read on here.
@WYVERNFYRES oh I’ve bet you read worse. So what is so “bullshit” about it? The fact I said it’s a good thing for guys to act stoic/tough?
I have seen more bullshit, Ill link the article in a second.
Never mind, Im too low level
I feel that other boys and men including myself we're kind of taught at a young age to hide emotions and now it's kind of second nature for many guys and it's a hard habit to break when you don't even realize you're doing it. Also I think the testosterone equals aggression thing was a myth and it had a little to no impact or very weak link to aggression. Guys are raised and taught differently and females and thus act differently when they grow up. That's the best answer I can give.
I think it's adherence to a sociological mold more than any real difference. Psychologists believe that whst we believe are rational decisions made by the later developing neo-cortical region of the brain but the current theory is that decisions are made based on emotions, both men's and women's from the deeper, older limbic part o0f the brain. After the decisions has been made, it get's rationalized by the executive functions that are part of the neo-corteex
They’re less in control of their emotions and allow their emotions to control their decision making; they also have a much harder time identifying their emotions. Who am I talking about? Females obviously. Men are as emotional but we learn to manage them and understand them early in life, females never learn.
Did you read the article you posted? It clearly states "Women do appear to react more negatively to unpleasant experiences in experimental settings". So, going by the evidence, I would have to conclude that women are more emotional. It also matches with my actual experience.
Lol more studies have always shown that women are emotional than men.
Boys are direct, lol and girls don't show directly they attack indirectly they don't like direct confrontation so they wait and pounce at right moment.
Men do things more direct and finish it off and forget about it this is wrt to your opinion.
what studies?
These are general studies which she mentioned that there are studies that disapprove that women are more emotional similarly there are more studies which say women are more emotional can check out in Google
a cursory search of peer reviewed journal articles on google scholar would suggest that there is not much evidence for women being more emotional
If you compare more articles, then you will find more articles in favour of women being emotional.
Also you can compare people in surroundings
the estrogen level at least have an effect on emotions. PMS is real xD https://www.webmd.com/women/guide/estrogen-and-womens-emotions
I also remember hearing trans women feeling a change in mood/emotions when taking estrogen.
But I guess it does depend on how you define being emotional.. is it expressing it more or feeling higher lows and downs?
Feeling higher lows and downs. Expressing your emotions is separate from being emotional, think of women who were beaten by their husbands for years while hiding it. The fact that she hides her bruises and her tears doesn't mean it hurts less. Likewise, a child who cries for an hour straight because he had his toy taken away, the fact that he expresses the hell out of that emotion doesn't make it worse than people who have suffered for years. Some people hide their pain and others wear it on their sleeve, others have very healthy levels of emotional expression.
Also, testosterone affects mood and emotions as well, though it does so in different ways. People just ignore shit that affects men.
Generally they are yeah. That doesn't necessarily mean they are more empathetic or loving... they are more EVERYTHING, which can be pretty volatile XD they need a stable and rational man to keep em in line. This is the general rule, there are tons of exceptions of course, but it leans in this direction
Just ask a Trans who began taking Testosterone and went on Estrogen HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy). I have read that compared to being a testosterone saturated male, to block testosterone and take estrogen makes them highly prone to extreme mood swings and way too much crying, in general. That appears to be universally agreed among tham.
yeah but changing hormonal balance in any direction does that. Not saying less T and more estrogen doesn't make a more emotional human being, but it's not a compelling argument