[Amendment10]

I remember she called it something along the lines of “the doctrine of the the absolute infallibility of a sobbing, hysterical woman.”

I hadn't heard that, but its an excellent analogy. Yes, guys will typically do anything to keep a lady from becoming noticeably upset with them, at least in public.

[Elsie]

Yes, guys will typically do anything to keep a lady from becoming noticeably upset with them, at least in public.

INDEED!

As a side effect of my screenname, I am NOTICEABLY treated better by other posters whose fur I've ruffled, BEFORE they find out I'm MALE.

Some react as though they've placed their hand up a trannies skirt and suddenly found out the TRUTH, and blame ME for an ASSUMPTION that THEY have made!!

[Amendment10]

Yes, guys will typically do anything to keep a lady from becoming noticeably upset with them, at least in public.

I thought that the following line was from one of William Shakespeare's plays, but evidently not.

"Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned," spoken by Zara in Act III, Scene VIII, The Morning Bride, William Congrave, 1697.