There is nothing wrong with studying your Bible or a little bit of stoic philosophy, there is plenty wrong with downing a cocktail of drugs with who knows WHAT side effects.
I guess only women can say that about other women, just like only blacks are free to use tne N-word.
I think we need to have a Dictionary of WhiteMalespeak so we can keep track of what we're allowed to say.
I dunno. Sometimes it seems like a good idea.
As a general rule, I think women do pay more attention to nonverbal cuing and make better inferences early in life. But then the worst thing happens to many women, they lose the skill and don't know it.
They become dead certain and dead wrong concerning other people's intentions/motivation and it leads to bat crap crazy syndrome.
Women were created to be nurturers and need sensitivity for the self sacrifice that this sometimes requires. It is only sensitive compassion that gets a mom through some intense times of nurturing (sleepless nights when stomach flu hits the toddler while still nursing a young infant, for example).
The same sensitivity can be a huge problem in the workplace. Over the past several decades more women are in the workforce, doing what used to be considered men’s work. Maybe that is contributing to the need women have for something to help control their emotions so they can be more like men.
I just take a shot of Bushmill’s and move on. :-)
In other news...
“Doctors report prescribing, to their male patients, mood altering drugs normally reserved for women. Physicians note that approximately 18% of their male patients describe a variety of emotional symptoms normally associated with females.”
/s
Ya think?
Men aren’t afflicted with depression.
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We’re carriers.
“as the female brain develops, more capacity is reserved for... observing emotions in others”
Or projecting perceived “emotions in others”.
Funny but true.
Mark Gungor...the difference in men and women’s brain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BxckAMaTDc
Codified in the ICDM by the Rolling Stones as "Mothers Little Helpers."
This creation of a New Normal leads to a climate of intolerance for what used to be normal behavior; showing emotion, or "acting hysterical" is seen as something pathological nowadays when in the past it was normal for women to act that way. And the most intolerant are other women who are on these meds and who push these meds on their friends, co-workers and family members.
As the author points out, a certain amount of highs and lows are normal and suppressing these normal feelings chemically can make a woman less empathetic and less understanding - and more commanding or "man-like" and confident. Confident that they are right to take the meds and their un-medicated, emotional, sisters are wrong.
"You need to take something to even out your moods" a co-worker may hint.
Women on meds may dislike thinking that they are the only ones with the problem so they may project upon others and even try to convince others that they too have a problem and they too need meds. Eventually, the other woman will feel shame when she acts in ways formerly considered normal for women and she may seek out a physician for a prescription convinced that her normal feelings are now abnormal and in need of fixing.