Emotion, Men and Women(repost) (677 hits)
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Submitted by Alfa Veloce (View user info) at 2004-06-06 18:10:48 EDT
I made a newbie mistake and posted a question after I posted. So forgive a newcomer. Please. Thanks.
Ok so here I am after yet another frustrating, maddening, rage-filled, finger flippin', day of dealing with women. I have come to the conclusion that the popular conceptions of the differences between men and women are dead friggin wrong!
It has long been a long held belief that men have a hard time expressing and dealing with their emotions. I am hear to challenge that. I can be so bold because I am right damn it and I dare you to say otherwise! Lets take a simple yet nuanced emotion like anger.
You see when men get angry we fly off the handle, yelling, screaming, and breaking things like bones, cars, doors, walls, and expensive handmade frilly things that should never have been brought into our presence in the first place. Then we settle down, deal with it and then things are done. There is no second guessing, no interpretation, no de-coding of CIA proportions. Just plain, simple, and uncomplicated anger. When we get pissed at our friend we let them know...more or less. This message may be transmitted in a number of ways but they all carry the same message, with the same connotation, denotation, and meaning. These avenues of transmission can be a quick jab, roundhouse, uppercut, etc. However those are reserved only for extreme cases of offense like dissing a girlfriend/wife, or just the offending party being a general asshole. In most cases, which we regard as minor cases, we settle thing with a quick, "dude that wasn't cool," or "what the F@#$@k?" or less mainstream but still classic, " If you ever do that to me again I'll (insert inane, non-committal, non serious threat of life here)." There are even some cases where the offending party either refuses to concede committing an offense or repeats the offense. In these cases things get very simple. We simply cut off ties with the person who has pissed us off o the point of no return. There is no conversation no nothing just a simple, surgical severing off ties. If there is to be reconciliation both parties usually just have a beer admit faults, leer lecherously at women, making obscene comments that we would never repeat to other people and if not for the alcohol would be loathe to make and then friendship would resume with no other strings. There is no archiving of the offense for later use, no subtle hinting that past grievances, and no mind games.
Then we have the opposite sex. The sex that beguiles us. The sex that frustrates us. The sex the excites us, frightens us, enrages us, infatuates us, invades our every other thought, makes us happy, makes us sad, makes us envious, makes us act, look , and feel like bumbling, incompent, socially inept, and stupid fools. All the while holding the power to make us feel like we are the greatest person ever to take stride upon the earth, and infinitely happy and content. Okay enough about the chicks and back to the issue.
Women have long been credited as better with emotions than me, but in my experience that ain't the case. From mothers to wives and every type of man-woman relationship in between, there are hurdles, and "bumps in the road" that are the approximate size, height, and about as tough to overcome and navigate as the White Cliffs of Dover, Everest, the Sahara in peak summer, and the Pacific in a canoe combined. Thus a man who has had a successful relationship with a woman, meaning having a meaningful relationship for more than 18 years that has been relatively calm, should be awarded more praise and admiration than Sir. Edmund Hilary and Tensing Norgay, and most certainly Magellan. The reasons for this are simple.
Back to our example of anger. When women are angry the person they are angry with has to figure it out. Their anger is a code and you don't know if they really angry at you or at some one else. This is because they express their discontent in very different ways. They don't lash out, at least not immediately. No, their wrath is slow and well fueled, ours is fast and loses steam quickly. Their anger utilizes many other emotions. As if the anger wasn't hard enough to deal with women also employ the guilt. This is a favorite weapon of the mothers. The guilt usually follows the anger and often times even if the offending party is in the right, they end up giving up or conceding even though they have no reason to do so. If guilt was a weapon of mass destruction the Prez. would have bombed every women into the stone age.
When a woman is angry she hides it. And though we try hard not to, nine times out of ten we stumble upon it like a wayward soldier in a minefield. Though we may not lose limbs or our lives we will most likely lose any hope of affection let alone sex, and that can feel like losing an arm or leg. Women will talk to everyone except the person they are pissed at. Instead the mope, and act like we should know exactly what has set them off and God help us if we ask what's wrong. Because if by chance we are the ones who have set them off we will be faced an explosion the like of which only the poor souls of Hiroshima and Nagasaki circa 1945 have experienced.
You'll see that a woman's scorn is so complex, mysterious, and frustrating that I cannot fully explain it. So I say to my fellow men, "Grab a bottle and don't let go!" Let me conclude with a plea to the women: Let us know what's wrong and hear us out when we try to explain. Cut us some slack once in a while and if you're mad at someone don't take it out on us and if it is us you're ticked at give us a bottle and crash helmet first and then start yelling.
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Submitted by Sci-Fi_Man (user info) at 2004-06-09 14:01:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
"Back to our example of anger. When women are angry (,) the person they are angry with has to figure it out."
Try a (,) in that second sentence. That would help you get the people off your back.
Submitted by tuesdaydelay (user info) at 2004-06-09 13:46:20 EDT (#)
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This useless uninteresting bollock just told me how to write with the worst array of grammer I've seen for a while.
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Oh and another, you twunt.
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And this one again.
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And again:
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Submitted by loki (user info) at 2004-06-07 16:51:08 EDT (#)
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attn ghey menz
Submitted by Tom (user info) at 2004-06-07 02:07:48 EDT (#)
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Pussy random joe bitch.
Submitted by conrad (user info) at 2004-06-07 01:55:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Remarkably ghey for a post concerned with both sexes.
Submitted by lojope (user info) at 2004-06-07 00:21:08 EDT (#)
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Submitted by I_Have_a_Kristen_Fetish (user info) at 2004-06-06 21:12:41 EDT (#)
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Submitted by lojope (user info) at 2004-06-06 21:05:39 (#)
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Hey, kids, play nice. You guys told him to repost it.
This was ok. Rather dry and hard to get through though.
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Play nice? Uh... What was that nice thing you did?
Submitted by lojope (user info) at 2004-06-06 21:05:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Hey, kids, play nice. You guys told him to repost it.
This was ok. Rather dry and hard to get through though.
Submitted by Tom (user info) at 2004-06-06 18:39:22 EDT (#)
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Frankly violet, I don't give a damn.
Submitted by I_Have_a_Kristen_Fetish (user info) at 2004-06-06 18:13:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Going for a posting record today? I've already seen this.