Compared to men, women are described as very emotional,
right? Well, think again. Although women may admit to being very emotional and
never hide their emotions, does not mean they are more emotional than men. The
reason why you may have felt that women are most emotional is because of the behavior
and emotions that women freely spill; perhaps you have witnessed many emotions
from women at your nearby grocery store, within your family, a significant other, a
co-worker, or even a stranger. Women are more open to share their thoughts and
emotions compared to men. But let’s flip this; men are more emotional than
women!
Typically men are tough individuals, they walk
around wearing a hard shell and may not be as fast to reveal their emotions compared
to a woman. Does that make them less emotional?
It actually makes them more emotional. Men are
pressured to have a certain image. Men learn from a young age to have to “take
it like a man.” Ideally, this leads to society’s image on gender roles and
expectations. But in all honesty, we are all human which means we all have
emotions. Men just learn to compose and bottle their emotions up compared to
women.
A study has shown that men are as emotional, if not
more emotional than women. As described on Elite Daily, there was a comparison
between 15 men and 15 women. The women admitted to being emotional, whereas the
men did not. After receiving the data, results had shown that the men responded
as more emotional than women, and were able to hide their feelings better. Ultimately,
this goes to show that men will not state they are emotional, because that’s something
you’ll firstly hear from a woman instead.
Everyone is different but is all under the same gender
rules of society, making everyone similar to a certain extent. That is the
unfortunate norm of society. People aren’t allowed to actually be themselves
because of gender stereotypes.
This is an interesting concept that you have tackled here. I agree that typically in our society women are thought of as the emotional ones. I also agree that, generally speaking, men tend to conceal their emotions.
ReplyDeleteI am left to wonder what exactly the data said in the survey. I realize that you posted the link at the bottom, but it takes an invested reader to follow a link thrown at the bottom of the page. Perhaps alluding to the data in the body of a paragraph could give brief insight to a casual reader without forcing them to link to another web page.
Did someone say, "Invested Reader"?
DeleteThe elitedaily.com article links to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2665908/Big-boys-dont-cry-BUT-deep-theyre-emotional-women.html . Which says "The research which was carried out by psychology research institute, Mindlab, and commissioned by the Royal Mail". A little digging with the search query "mindlab 'royal mail' emotions" turns up a press release from 13 June 2014 at https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bOpaNaixfbYJ:www.royalmailgroup.com/new-research-shows-men-are-more-emotional-women+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us . "The research for Royal Mail was carried out online by Mindlab between 22 / 05/ 2014 and 28 / 05 / 2014 amongst a panel resulting in 2001 men in the UK. Participants were recruited using the online survey company One Poll." I'll defer to someone with training in the social sciences to comment on whether this is statistically significant.
The actual Royal Mail article is http://www.myroyalmail.com/news/2014/06/move-your-dad-father%E2%80%99s-day . It quotes Stephen Agar, managing director for consumer and network access, as saying, "We’ve created an ultimate list of phrases that have been scientifically proven to move dads and really pull at their heart strings. We hope this helps our customers when writing and sending their Father’s Day cards, and we expect there to be a lot of emotional dads across the UK come Sunday."
The themindlab.co.uk web site highlight's the company's work in "Brand Research", "Advertising Effectiveness", "Product Research", and "Public Relations".
Why would the British equivalent of UPS be sponsoring this survey? From the press release: "We’ve created an ultimate list of phrases that have been scientifically proven to move dads and really pull at their heart strings. We hope this helps our customers when writing and sending their Father’s Day cards, and we expect there to be a lot of emotional dads across the UK come Sunday.”
Preparing the above took about 15 minutes.
This blog post raises an important issue with respect to binary gender determination. I don't think it's possible to determine whether men or women are more emotional. At least not without first defining what an emotion is, and how it is felt, and how it impacts the abilities and actions of the person feeling it.
Delete"Everyone is different but is all under the same gender rules of society, making everyone similar to a certain extent."
I don't understand this sentence.
"People aren’t allowed to actually be themselves because of gender stereotypes."
Speak for yourself...
It's crazy how men have evolved to feel they are not allowed to show how they feel. It is wrong. This does not mean men have to cry over everything or whine over everything, but they can cry at sad movies or at beautiful moments! There is no law against it!
ReplyDeleteThe study's results that you mentioned actually shocked me. I am so used to seeing men not show emotion that you actually think they do not have any at some points, so reading that they held more emotion than women (especially since women are biologically structured to show a ton of emotion at times without being able to help it) made no sense to me! It made me happy, though, so see that men have an emotional side for sure.
I think this topic is a tough one. There are many that want to break the gender binaries and others that very much believe in them. I think that everyone should be able to show the emotion that they feel without being judged. I think it would be a great thing to see blogs about breaking those binaries. Men and women should be respected in the same way, especial about their emotions.
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