Come on ladies! (Men help me out)

im never the overly emotional one, i enjoy logic .

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)

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^^this.

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

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.

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: ).

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.

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......