[Tax-chick]

That’s a “boy howdy” statement how people no longer think, but are ruled by their emotions.

It certainly is. It can be hard to have a discussion with people (especially on Facebook, I hear), because they're not interested in whether a statement is true, or even if it has a possibility of being accurate, but only in how they feel about it.

[metmom]

When feelings become the basis of what our reality consists of, chaos results.

Being female, we know what emotions can do to us on a regular basis. Simple hormone changes can change one’s perspective dramatically.