Winning the war against men, Part 2

An emotion-driven woman is a shrieking monster. True...

I suspect all shrieking women are emotional monsters, sure. But at least they're being honest about it.

It's the quiet ones who are emotionally driven that are dangerous for men.

It has nothing to do with volume.

I wonder if, for example, the Catholic Church would marry two people under Canon Law without a state-issued marriage license. I mean, it seems to me that the secular institution stands in so many ways athwart the Catholic understanding of marriage that one would think that the Church would prefer to avoid any association with that institution in the public mind. I think that other Christian denominations might feel this way. If memory serves, the great R.J. Rushdoony (my favorite Protestant theologian) had something to say about this.

Well, that's true, too. I know a woman who...

(Eeek. Many a story will start out that way...)

Ah, skip the story. Let me just agree that quiet, emotion-driven women are dangerous for men. But I maintain that the same kind of man, is dangerous for women.

How's this: women are arguably both more emotional and more aware of their emotions, and so in a better position over the years to face, understand and develop deliberate strategies of self-control or self-management (because there's no option of ignoring female feelings, they're right out there like a rash on the face.)

Whereas men are slower to access their emotions, and likely slower to acknowledge, understand, or try to remedy them. (Because they carry them inside, like a deep inflammation they don't even know is there.)

In truth, I am not so very confident about my generlizations, since right away I start thinking of exceptions! And the people I know and like best, male and female, are "working on themselves," trying to do better on handling this stuff day by day.

So on that note, wishing you a good day, I bow and exit.

I don't doubt that I'm angry now and much of this is emotion on my part. However I wasn't happy for many years in the marriage and never considered leaving, ever. I believe that once a couple has a kid, in spite of the vows they've already taken, the game changes. Even if you believe in divorce, which I don't generally, the first kid changes everything. Kids do better with both parents, it's not even a question, and parents owe that to their kids.

As far as all women, they are more emotionally driven than men, and this is a problem in business. I've worked under women who have the power to affect people's lives, and make those decisions based on emotion. It's an unstable way to run a business. The fact that many men now operate the same way is attributed to the feminization of our country. We are poorer for it.

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