More Emotional?

While a bit of a generalization, I'd tend to agree. As human beings, we are all incapable of being completely void of emotion. The term 'emotional' as I know it is generally applied to those who are most expressive of those emotions.

For example, I am pretty flatlined as far as emotional expression. Those around me generally have no idea whether I'm happy or sad. This does not mean that I am not feeling an emotion. Can you really say that I am emotional, though?

On the flip side, if I "wore my emotions on my sleeve" and smiled when I was happy, cried when I was sad, and expressed every feeling on the emotional pendulum, would it not then be appropriate to label me as being emotional?

Again... a broad generalization, because there is really no way to ever truly quantify this. If you are saying that men experience emotion just as much as women, I'd agree. If you are saying that men express emotion just as much as women, I'd disagree.

 

Again.... agreed.

 

Adults can control their emotions. Females may experience strong mood swings once a month that males do not. However Grown-assed Women can anticipate this and compensate so as to conduct themselves logically.

 

Anger is not the only emotion in discussion, though. Happiness, grief, sadness, the eating of vegetables, depression, and love are all taken into consideration, I'd assume.

 

Yeah maybe that's my problem, I wear my emotions on my sleeve and everyone knows where they stand with me ... I never ever thought of that as being emotional but just expressing, because I'm pretty cold on the whole. Some (men) though have labeled me emotional because of that I guess.

 

You're so smart, heh. Yea, that's what I meant. I think men experience emotion just as much as women, I just don't think they express emotion as much as women. Plus, that it is also different for every man and woman depending on who they are. I wear my heart on my sleeve, but I don't think it's just because I'm female. You don't wear your heart on your sleeve, but I don't think it's just because you're male. I still think that men and women are different creatures from different planets though, and we'll probably never fully understand each other. :wink:
It's hard not to generalize though, I think, even though it's not the best thing to do, IMO. I also know guys (like my b/f recently) who whine and cry and bitch and moan and nag and lose their minds and rationale over silly little BS. And I know women who can stay very composed and in control of how much emotion they express and even not express the emotion she does feel because she is a human being and we all have emotions.

 

Damn, that pink was killin' my eyes.

 

I had something completely smart ass to say, but in fear of getting told that I have PMS (which I don't), or that I'm just an emotional woman (which I'm not), I'm just going to shut my mouth and move on........

 

Fear is an emotion. So, those PMS / emotional woman accusers would be right. (<-- A joke)

Anyone who summarily dismisses your emotions as being a result of PMS is a bit of a jackass. I assume this was meant for me, though since I am the one who brought that as an example into the thread? If that is the case, go ahead and say what it is on your mind. I am a jackass, but one of a different flavor. The context that I referred to those in was simply to say that women have a mechanism that will cause them to be more emotional than men. It's like scientific fact... estrogen and testosterone and all that. Frankly, I don't see what the big deal is about being emotional. I'd love to have people stop always telling me they feel like something is wrong when nothing is.

 

Awww, crap. You bring up an excellent point! :smt022

ME TOO.

Frankly, I'm too worn out from work to think about it. I have about 45 minutes left before I have to start working again, so I think I'll just respond to stuff until then where I don't have to put thoughts together and get them from my brain to the keyboard...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHT7_Ku4iPE

 

I believe we all agree that both sexes have emotions, I would relabel the wearing of emotions on the sleeve as simply expressive as opposed to repressed. I am a lot like you this way Serendipity - it's usually very obvious even to a blind person, how I'm feeling lol. I am working on my poker face though!

 

about the passive aggressive ones:

I've seen too many guys with clenched teeth and annnoyed eyes hissing out "nothing" when you ask whats wrong- when I was younger I actually cared and tried to find out what happened (mostly since I thought it was my fault), nowadays I just slap them at the back and go "oh GOOD, have a nice day" and be on my merry way.

 

JAISEE ! you certainly are not an offender, IMO,

But hey hey where have you been, thought you had gone and left us in favour of the real world.

 

Yeah i co- sign you and Serendipity, i think its obvious when im not happy or when i am, ive been told my face is like a window pane, you can see straight through also my voice is the biggest giveaway when upset, not whiny just despondent.

 

:smt017 Hmmm....me too. I'm seeing a trend here. :smt081

 

Hmmm...A little close to the bone BMJ? Is him's feewings all huwt?

ROFL

 

Ive witnessed this kinda stuff in the workplace, we had a Transport manager who used to break cordless phones weekly, it got so bad we actually electrical taped bumpers round his phone to provide them with cushioning. He was bi polar or something, constant PMT, working along side him daily as Depot manager was like going into battle, but i had fun with it, lol he used to get so stressed if i tried to knock a bit of fun into him, threw clipboards at me, i responded like for like and threw a scaffolding board at him, obviously i deliberately aimed it wrong.

But his face when he had back a lil of what he gave out made me laugh my arse of, he was sooo shocked, even bought me a hot cross bun from the bakers that day.

 

See that's exactly how I see it ... being expressive rather than repressed but some people perceive it differently. Like you Athena, I have to work on my poker face too, I'm too transparent as I've been told.