Why is it that women are labeled as the more “emotional” sex when males commit 98% of mass shootings, 99% of sexual assault, and 80% of violent crime?

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Haha456 · Accepted Answer

men commit crimes because they are more reckless, impulsive, act before you think types. men are also more insensitive to others. Nobody is unemotional. Men are not unemotional. All humans are emotional beings. Its just that women are more emotional than men. It does not mean at all that men are not emotional.

Men tend to like to disguise their emotions because they have huge egos. They think crying, talking about how they feel deep inside will make them seem sensitive and weak which in turn may affect their egos. Men have significantly bigger egos than women. Men also have a higher tendency for narcissism than women.

Study shows men are more narcissistic than women. This surprises no one. - The Washington Post

That’s according to a study in the March issue of the Psychological Bulletin, the journal of the American Psychological Association. In a review of three decades of survey data from nearly half a million participants, researchers found that men are more likely to demonstrate narcissistic behavior than women, regardless of generation or age.

TenderFantasy · Accepted Answer

Those seem anger and frustration expressed in a destructive way. I guess for those people, they didn't have a healthy outlet for their feelings. They should have taken advantage of their counseling resources at school or with their health insurance. This also stems from people who are saying: "Oh boys will be boys" or "Be a man and suck it up!".

Also, I don't believe in this stereotype. Never have. We are ALL human beings with emotions and feelings and it's time people STOPPED with the stereotyping, it doesn't help anyone.

globetrotter22 · Accepted Answer

99% of sexual assaults…. do you have a nonpartisan source for that statistic? Yes there are more reports of men doing this which doesn’t surprise me but 99%? Also I think many incidents of female sexual assaults go unreported.

For example female pedophilia was literally considered nonexistent until very recently. Does anybody remember Edward Furlong (the young john Connor in terminator 2). He was in a sexual relationship with a 29 year old woman when he was 13. She didn’t get in any trouble though. The state of California didn’t even have any female to minor statutory rape laws until 1994. I also don’t think all female teacher/minor sex scandals was a recent phenomenon. Rather they just recently started being reported.

Again I acknowledge that men are overall more violent physically and sexually than women. But don’t give us some exaggerated bullshit “99% of all sexual assaults” statistic.

bean2k21 · Accepted Answer

Psychologists believe that anger stems from the primal need to react to situations that threaten one's survival or the survival of one's offspring. It's debatable if it can be labelled an emotion. In the human world, it is the male who is tasked with defending against threatening situations, and therefore the laws are biased against males. Let's pass a law that says a lioness shouldn't get angry when you threaten her cubs, and suddenly you'll see a feminist uproar, no pun intended. Or better yet, make it illegal for a female to be promiscuous, if that's her nature -- not going to happen. But, it's perfectly permissible to penalize that which comes naturally to men. I'm not saying we shouldn't penalize mass shooters and rapists, but society needs to do a better job at helping men understand their nature rather than penalize it.

WhiteSteve · Answer

Lmao, I get emotional as all get out. Big tantrum guy, HUGE😂😂😂 Yelling at the ref Yelling at the players Aaaannnnndddddd I’m ejected😂

HighValue · Answer

Two of those numbers are wrong. Women that commit violent crimes are often ignored by society so the statistical numbers don't match reality.

As far as sexual assault goes, millions of women are guilty of rape and never charged.

When a person is under the influence of alcohol they can't legally give consent. Every single time a woman meets a guy at a bar or club that has been drinking and she hooks up with him, she has actually raped him.

I do agree that men are more emotional though. They usually feel things deeper. Women just show it more openly because society gives them sympathy more often and society ridicules men for showing emotion.

Apple1996 · Answer

It's because we live in a society where people don't think being angry is a emotion. Which obviously it is. They think emotional is only sad/crying. There are so many emotions and both genders show all the emotions. But yes men seem to act on their emotions a lot in violent ways cuz their testosterone makes them angry.

xJeremyx · Answer

I would say crime rates are a way to highlight the outliers.

A more representative way to phrase it may be using mental health statistics instead, given how this can be linked to violent crime and shootings, as well as other emotion-related issues. Men bottle up their emotions. Do that for too long and you will eventually be mentally affected, and will not be in a good state of mind, leading to rash decisions which include crime.

can't really be applied to sexual assault, and I do believe the number is less than 99%. Sexual assault is a result of improper education about sexual misconduct and boundaries in schools and by parents.

Anonymous · Answer

But then there are more male police officers, marines, fire fighters. And when there's a tragedy, whether it be a life threatening accident, a natural disaster or even a mass shooting like you described, I would say 99.9% of the time, the one who responds to save your ass is a male.

Now why is that?
Well it's partly biological... because men are driven by the will to act, and sometimes this also means acting without thinking first. Whether the act is heroic or pure evil.

Women are naturally more cautious than men, which is why they act less and think more, which can be good in some ways... but also makes them effective at planning getting away with certain crimes, but also less reliable as first responders.

Lets play a game.
Look up "Real Life Heroes" on YouTube, and try to count how many of these heroes are female. :)

Avicenna · Answer

Well, first of all, violent crime is a subset of all crime and is a tiny portion of the interactions that people have daily, so it's way too narrow of a dataset to use to determine that.

Second, you're assuming that violent crime is caused by emotion, but nothing else is related to emotions.

BlueScorpio · Answer

Men are very emotional creatures but sometimes act it out in destructive ways. That can be due to testosterone that makes men a little bit more aggressive. It's very true, it's men that starts wars and do horrible crimes but it also takes men to stop those who are out of control and to bring back some level of peace and balance.

Sandeeppingping · Answer

Emotion doesn't mean taking action, most women are more emotional in normal day to day things, and panic under too much pressure, yet they do nothing, dudes who rape and shoot people out of frustration have reached their limit, they don't just need help like the 14 year old girl threatening to kill herself, it's even bigger than that, a monster has been unleashed after huge huge frustrations, huge difference, also let's make sure we state that 99.9% of men don't do that shit...

TheUniqueOne96 · Answer

How do you know that they're actually men though and don't identify as none-binary or women, since you also seem to buy into that kind of thing?

A bit ignorant to just assume that, eh?

This is clearly just another question to take some kind of dig at men, nothing new on here and it's not the first time it's come from you either.

CALIGVLA · Answer

Tell me why you and people like you support the Apartheid State of Israel and all its crimes against the Palestinians and I'll tell you why women are labeled as the more “emotional” sex when males commit 98% of mass shootings, 99% of sexual assault, and 80% of violent crime.

ShadezMcgee · Answer

So emotional means actual committing of crimes violent and sexual? It doesn't mean a quick fluctuation or knee jerk change from one emotion to the next in a situation that brings stress or drastic swings for the individual in question?

Can you be emotional and not do any of those things you stated, or is that defined as something different?

NathanDavis · Answer

because people love to just throw words and phrases just like that... without actually looking into the actual meaning of it, or the reality of things...

RealMarek · Answer

Because trait aggression and trait neuroticism are two different things. The first is quantifiably somewhat more prevalent among men on average but the bell curve for men is wider, meaning that almost all excessively aggressive people are men. This is an effect of biology (greater variability among males than females generally speaking) more than it is of social conditioning. Neuroticism is markedly higher on average in women.

Light909090 · Answer

Men do it because It’s Natural to men it’s What Men do it’s The Primal Nature of Man.
Rape is a Primal Urge in every man
Morals in a man can say it’s wrong but It doesn’t matter who the man is if a man rapes A female it will feel good. That’s not saying It’s okay to rape it’s not okay to rape but just saying that It would feel good Because That’s What happens when a man has a Brain and when the penis is stimulated all sorts of Feel good Things happen in the brain and body of the man

Guardian45 · Answer

Because women emote their feelings better in words, gestures and actions.

Most men are POOR at reading and/or expressing themselves through words and gestures, and end up taking mismatched actions.

Unfortunately, sometimes in the extreme. Those committing these crimes are FAR from NORMAL.

genericname85 · Answer

because women are more into wishy washy romantic bullshit and "emotional" is the perfect description for that. of course both genders are equally emotionally capable meaning they'll both have emotional issues too but different ways to handle them.

ManOnFire · Answer

The moment I saw this question on the Live Feed, I already knew it was from old broke down Subaru before I even clicked it. Lmfao.

Anonymous · Answer

Men who commit those crimes are lacking in emotion, especially emotions like empathy. But don't let that get in the way of your emotional rant here. I'm sure it must be cathartic for you.

Why are women labeled as the more “emotional” sex? Because they are, obviously.

exitseven · Answer

I think it is because guys are taught from birth that they need to not show emotions. They keep everything inside until one day they get an assault rifle and shoot up a shopping center.

Beardedman1996 · Answer

Crime doesn’t meme emotion in fact crime is usually committed by people devoid of emotion and empathy, lustful people acting on instinct or hormones or greed so those crimes aren’t dependent on men nor are they dependent on emotion, men are idiots who will commit crimes but we also get caught in those crimes, there are plenty of crimes here committed by women, they just either aren’t reported on or they don’t get caught

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

This is the 1st question you've posted that I really agree with I don't think women are the more emotional sex I think men are and I think because we're taught to not cry and keep everything bottled up we're a ticking time bomb and that's why men do these things. Great question! 👍

Msputiton · Answer

Lmao, watch how they react when things go wrong or disagree with something.  They claim their temper tantrum is keeping it real

jshm2 · Answer

Because males do those things as quiet, cold, calculating killers.  Whereas women traumatise the street, and next generation, with their screeching, and bitching - when they do it.

JamesDiaz11 · Answer

Emotional isn't the same as being violent. besides, men are far more capable of employing violence than women are, who pursue aggression in other ways.

Rangers · Answer

Women vote democrat more often, showing a lack of critical thinking skills and their preference for things that feel good, unable to use logic and see that such policies are destructive and backwards

XhmadRooz · Answer

The cause and root of every problem is women attitude and behavior. They don't talk but give attitude and face shapes, they're the one who start fighting, yelling, being rude, not saying hi, their attitude remain premature throughout their life.

77five · Answer

Id say that those things account for men being more violent. A lot of the men that commit those atrocities lack emotion, antisocial.

RedStiletto88 · Answer

I really want to know why as well because men definitely can be way over emotional and yes they are much more violent

Anonymous · Answer

But aren't they physically doing those things and often without thinking (aside from the mass shooting which is often plotted ahead)? So i dont think emotions tie in with most of that. I could be wrong 🤷‍♀️

TheFlak38 · Answer

The men you're referring to are the products of single motherhood and a society that sees men as human garbage. Exactly the things you're worshipping.

es20490446e · Answer

Because men don't cry when they shoot.

fred_durst · Answer

it has nothing to do with emotion men basically involved in everything , they build everything around u , they fly to sky , they go the moon , and they commit countless crimes too of course

OlderThanILook · Answer

Yeah honestly I don't know either. Women are indifferent as fuck

ohsheeT · Answer

Well then you have to add in another label women are also smarter than men that's why LOL

Anonymous · Answer

Being irrationally overemotional with every emotion and being violent (and potentially angry), are two different things. But this is just more man-hating feminist bullcrap.

Jamie05rhs · Answer

Because the men doing those things are psychopaths. They aren't representative of normal, psychologically balanced men.

RavVid · Answer

Good Q. I guess it is that outside of those three categories we tend to find girls more emotional.

Aerolyn · Answer

This is the best question I've seen in a while, tbh.

YollyM · Answer

I don't think most men (and some women) realise that anger is infact an emotion.

Anonymous · Answer

Exactly.

Part2603 · Answer

It's probably because they cry all the time.

Anonymous · Answer

Women commit far more than 1% of sexual assaults, but I can see why you would feel the need to make that false claim, you being a stereotypically overly emotional woman and all.

MikeInHawaii · Answer

I think those crimes show a serious lack of emotion or, at least, empathy.

loveslongnails · Answer

I think you're trying to compart apples and oranges, or in this case, mental illness to basic emotions.

KrakenAttackin · Answer

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Andres77 · Answer

Those crimes are not passionate. They are deliberate, cold and evil.

OnTheLevel · Answer

Violent crimes are generally committed by those devoid of emotion so I think the stats you provided kind of prove the point you are trying to contest.

TallAnon · Answer

That's very closely linked, I think. Men are expected to be less emotional, so they bottle it all up. Then when it's too much and they don't know what to do with all those emotions.. It explodes.

Agape93 · Answer

Because self reflection is harder than deflection

OddBeMe · Answer

Because you bitches get so worked up about it. Jeez.

nocturnalbreed · Answer

Women express their emotion publicly and men lock it in themselves. Which results in unhealthy outbreak.

TroyDT · Answer

Apples and oranges. Women "in general" vs. the infinitesimal % of men who are psychopaths.

CAPTAIN-OBVIOUS · Answer

This wasn’t even a question but you are actively showing your hatred towards men.

Jenny-Marie · Answer

It's nothing to do with emotion, it's to do with power and ego.

JohnK123 · Answer

99% of sexual assault nah that number is way too high no way only 1% of females do sexual assault no way

grega239 · Answer

Women cry all the time. They also attempt suicide more often but fail to actually do it. They shit bricks when they see a bug.

Surely · Answer

You do have a point there!  Maybe “unstable “. Is the word describing men.

msc545 · Answer

Women initiate 90% of divorces and kill babies 97% of the time.

pizzalovershouse · Answer

Cuz they mean girls cry more not killl more,

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