HS,
No-one is casting doubt on the fact that women may percieve emotions in a different, perhaps more enhanced way than men.
Isn't saying that a peson perceives emotions in a "more enhanced" way the same as saying that that person is more emotional? If I said that Arnold Shwarzenegger has "more enhanced" strength than myself isn't that the equivalent of simply stating he is stronger than me? And is being more emotional a bad thing? I don't think so.
I can accept this, but cannot accept any of the statements by a 'female psycholgist', or a man who claims that you can divide the population of the world into two camps, the 'thinkers' and the 'feelers'.
I don't accept the former psychologist either. To be fair to the doctor I quoted, studies using the Meyer's Briggs test generally tend to support the notion that, yes, the world is divided somewhat evenly between people who are either more cerebral or more emotional. It's not just one guy who says this. All the same, I'm not going to argue this as I'm trying to be less pedantic.
How much of all this is a self-fulfilling sterotype is yet to be assessed,
It's quite possible that women are more "emotional" due to our culture rather than something innate about them. I promise I'll raise my daughter in a gender neutral way.
but that is not the thrust of the WTS reason for quoting a 'female psychologist'. She was quoted to reinforce a desperate Biblical cliche that women are inferior in emotional capability than are men. A *very* Augustine perception, and one that is patently untrue and innacurate. That Dr Boeree bought into this classic notion from a lateral position means nothing.
No, Dr Boeree did not "buy into this classic notion." Show me where he says that "women are inferior" in any way. Unless you equate being more emotional, or -- excuse me -- "perceiving emotion in an enhanced way", with inferiority. If so, that is your problem.
It should not escape the grasp of your intellectual reasoning to conclude that women are throughly capable of both thinking and feeling and that stereotypes are just that, a ham-fisted attempt at creating statistical melting pots.
The straw men continue. Neither I nor the quotations I listed said that anyone is not capable of thinking and feeling. I made it quite clear that we all experience both qualities (the division of which is a murky concept) on a contiuum, and can be said to predominately display either one or the other, and even that fluctuates given different circumstances.
All I can do is ask you Brad to explain this statement :
I still say there is *some* truth (no I was not kidding) to the notion that, generally speaking, women tend to be a bit more emotionally minded then men.
Might I ask how you know that "generally speaking" women tend to be more 'emotionally minded" than men.
That's the conclusion that many personality tests indicate. Plus, my subjective experience tells me so. It also tells me that you are an emotional basket-case, HS.
Are you sure that perhaps your perceptions are not based on a middle-class Western perception and the occasional rebuke from your girlfriend for being a trifle dense at times? Do Myers-Briggs operate in Italy, or Argentina where men have been known to cry and kill their neighbours for scratching their new Alfa's?
LMAO
Yours in pedanticism,
Bradley
