A) The assumption that “feelings” are less important to males. They are not. I’m quite attached to mine, actually. The fact that I strongly prefer to enforce a correspondence between my emotions and events (ie: I should feel good about good things happening and bad about bad things happening) is basic common sense.
B) The assumption that for women, feelings are more important than facts.
I thought you started this subthread by complaining how normal people do not possess what is “basic common sense” to you...
As to B), that’s pure straw, I have said no such thing. Among people to whom feelings are more important than facts, women form the majority, but there are males in there, too, and the whole set is not all that large, certainly not most women. Besides, this characteristic strongly depends on age—teenage girls and middle-age women are… different :-)
Makes sense, doesn’t it?
People we are talking about are not fans of retrospective thinking either and reflection—that’s what you use to check your makeup, amiright? X-)
You had to go and gender it?
Yes, I think there is considerable difference between genders in this.
In fact, guys underestimating how important are “feelings” to girls is a very widespread problem in personal relations.
I wanted to tell you why I’m downvoting.
A) The assumption that “feelings” are less important to males. They are not. I’m quite attached to mine, actually. The fact that I strongly prefer to enforce a correspondence between my emotions and events (ie: I should feel good about good things happening and bad about bad things happening) is basic common sense.
B) The assumption that for women, feelings are more important than facts.
I thought you started this subthread by complaining how normal people do not possess what is “basic common sense” to you...
As to B), that’s pure straw, I have said no such thing. Among people to whom feelings are more important than facts, women form the majority, but there are males in there, too, and the whole set is not all that large, certainly not most women. Besides, this characteristic strongly depends on age—teenage girls and middle-age women are… different :-)
No, I started the subthread by semi-complainingly asking why people think irrationality is more fun.
Aww, did someone just run into a fact he would prefer not to believe?