Come on ladies! (Men help me out)

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  • CaliforniaBarbie
    CaliforniaBarbie Posts: 346 Member
    im never the overly emotional one, i enjoy logic .
  • vaultgirlsam
    vaultgirlsam Posts: 28 Member
    Wow, did I ever misread this thread title.

    :embarassed:

    *drops mic and exits stage right*
  • anemoneprose
    anemoneprose Posts: 1,805 Member
    I think it's sad that we don't think that taking in our emotions is part of logical thinking.
    I am also disappoint this was brought up by a female. It's just perpetuating the dividing rivalry between our gender.
    Where's the love? We all handle **** the best we can.

    I think emotions and logical thinkig are mutually exclusive, facts and judgement can be clouded by mood.

    logic would have no direction without emotion (ie goals. you would not care enough about thinking anything through if you weren't attached to it in some kind of emotional way, even if the emotion is excitement about an idea)
  • vaultgirlsam
    vaultgirlsam Posts: 28 Member
    ^^this.

    <3
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  • NRSPAM
    NRSPAM Posts: 961 Member
    I'm not emotional during that time of the month. It's just that every annoying or a&*holish thing people do are amplified during that time! :wink:
  • anemoneprose
    anemoneprose Posts: 1,805 Member
    ^^this.

    <3

    :heart:
  • Jleonra
    Jleonra Posts: 42
    logic would have no direction without emotion (ie goals. you would not care enough about thinking anything through if you weren't attached to it in some kind of emotional way, even if the emotion is excitement about an idea)

    Then it becomes just "thinking", true, we need both emotional and logical thinking to function as a human being, but the minute a thought process is corrupted by emotions it stops being logical.

    Say your team is a big underdog against certain team, and you decide to bet on the game. Now your logical thinkig tells you to bet on the other team, because that gives you better odds. But your love and desire for your team to win tips the scale and you place a bet on your team disregarding your better judgement.

    You stopped being logical the minute your emotions came into the picture.


    I'm not debating the merits of one kind of thinking over the other, just saying they're mutually exclusive in their purest form, but I agree, emotions drive all of our actions, that's what make us human and not computers.
  • anemoneprose
    anemoneprose Posts: 1,805 Member
    logic would have no direction without emotion (ie goals. you would not care enough about thinking anything through if you weren't attached to it in some kind of emotional way, even if the emotion is excitement about an idea)

    Then it becomes just "thinking", true,

    exactly, thinking in a human being is almost always accompanied or directed by some mood/affect, which helps decide and energize the thinking-related goal. otherwise, your thoughts would be scattered, disorganized, or incomplete. it is emotional-type stuff that drives and sustains any kind of thinking. even when we are logical, we are emotional. the two are not opposed, exactly, because we're not computers.
    Say your team is a big underdog against certain team, and you decide to bet on the game. Now your logical thinkig tells you to bet on the other team, because that gives you better odds. But your love and desire for your team to win tips the scale and you place a bet on your team disregarding your better judgement.

    You stopped being logical the minute your emotions came into the picture.

    it's true that lots of the stupid things we do are related to unfortunate emotions. there are also fortunate emotions, like those that bind us to other people, let us care for them, drive us to achieve (or compete). some of those have been thought of as gendered, i agree with someone above that they are not, so much, and that's a whole other thing and not a discussion i really want to get into because my emotions will probably lead me to say something extreme.
    I'm not debating the merits of one kind of thinking over the other, just saying they're mutually exclusive in their purest form, but I agree, emotions drive all of our actions, that's what make us human and not computers.

    yeah we mostly on the same page that way except for the hair i'm splitting, my emotion = pleased
  • vtmoon
    vtmoon Posts: 3,436 Member
    This is about to get emotional, up in here.
  • TheFitHooker
    TheFitHooker Posts: 3,357 Member
    I feel like I walk on eggshells with my husband a lot of times. When he is upset, I know to stand clear and if I have to approach, I do so with caution. My PMS is more like PMDD and I'm a total beotch when on it, but he don't feel he has to walk on egg shells he says whatever it is he feels. If I buy something that I think might upset him, I straight up and tell him and explain why because I'd rather tell him before he looks on the bank account, and usually I'm scared we'll end up in a fight lol.
  • Cranquistador
    Cranquistador Posts: 39,744 Member
    Your baby is adorable. :flowerforyou:

    Too emotional! Needs more logic! :grumble:
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  • Morninglory81
    Morninglory81 Posts: 1,190 Member
    I think it's sad that we don't think that taking in our emotions is part of logical thinking.
    I am also disappoint this was brought up by a female. It's just perpetuating the dividing rivalry between our gender.
    Where's the love? We all handle **** the best we can.
    I apologize that you feel me being female somehow makes this statement hurtful or a sign of something more than if it was brought up by a man.
    That being said I did not say emotion had to be removed from the process. What I expect is for us to own our emotions by looking at them in an objective way before we respond.
  • Geeky_Girl
    Geeky_Girl Posts: 239 Member
    There's nothing wrong with emotions or even with being emotional. We are all emotional creatures to some degree. The key is having balance between emotion and logic and not getting carried away in either direction at the expense of the other.

    ^^ Pretty much this all over the place! :)
  • bluestarlight19
    bluestarlight19 Posts: 419 Member
    I'm fairly logical (hence my career in science), my husband is generally more reactive and emotional than I am, generally higher strung. That being said....PMS throws everything out the window and lights it on fire. This is usually the only time we have arguments and it almost always starts over the dumbest of things (he froze my lettuce by turning the fridge up was one, and he ate my last piece of chocolate cake that I got for my birthday from my mom and it was the ONLY thing I got for my birthday, even he didn't get me anything :explode: ).
  • crackur
    crackur Posts: 473 Member
    Women are crazy........and Men enjoy getting crazy. =)
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    Less logic, more sandwich making.

    Last weekend, I saw a guy wearing a t-shirt that said "Cool story babe. Now go make me a sandwich." I immediately thought of MFP.
  • She_Hulk
    She_Hulk Posts: 277
    Less logic, more sandwich making.

    :laugh: That just made my day. :flowerforyou:
  • crackur
    crackur Posts: 473 Member
    Less logic, more sandwich making.

    Last weekend, I saw a guy wearing a t-shirt that said "Cool story babe. Now go make me a sandwich." I immediately thought of MFP.
    my sister wears this shirt.......I laugh when I see it but.. I usually get a beer too......
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