Why Are Men So Much More Emotional Than Women?
Unintegrated feelings run most men from behind the rational facade
In a story that I recently read about Democratic women married to MAGA men, one of the comments was made by a guy with a Marine symbol as his profile image. He said, “Not even a survey to back this weird fantasy up. Show some data.” The original story, written by a man, was based on the accounts he’d heard from listeners on his SiriusXM radio show and from his related Facebook page. They were the tales told by women who were struggling with being married to men who since the 2016 election now felt emboldened to disrespect them in ways they had not in the past. In other words, the story wasn’t meant to convey anything other than the personal experiences of some of the people that the author had talked to.
But some disavowed emotional part of the commenter was apparently poked at by the subject matter — perhaps the self-reported fact that some women find MAGA men quite distressing to live with. His reaction was to try to dismiss the source of those feelings within himself, turning the focus outwards instead to demand statistics and data — in other words, by trying to counter and dismiss the emotions that story brought up in him with a bid for the rational.
