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This is everything I have ever tried to articulate and failed because a man was talking over me.

This entire article. I keep saying this, and it’s just so baffling to me how almost everyone always disagrees with me on this, because this idea that women are so much more emotional than men, and that men so much more rational than women is just so consistently being proven wrong to me every day of my life.

omg I’ve been waiting for years for somebody to write this.

I remember when I was taking a psychology class in high school, our teacher insisted that men had more emotional needs than women. To prove it, he showed us a video of a study with mothers and their infants.

In the study, women would play peekaboo with their babies, but then after a while give them a blank :I look

The baby girls were mostly unaffected, the boys however, started crying.

Hell I don’t need a study, I just have to look at my parents. My dad gets upset if my mom isn’t there to constantly freaking baby him, while my mom is expected to work and come home and make dinner and put up with him even though he’s retired and doesn’t do shit around the house now.

So why the shit do we get saddled with the emotional, clingy reputation??

shit is too fucking real. if i had a nickel for every time i had to wipe away dude tears and then had my own emotions completely minimized in return i’d have a nice car to fucking run over them with 

Hi, I am a man. I really hope other men click through and read this article. It’s true. This is us. This is what we need to work on. NOW. 

Yes. For example, men are guided by their hormone called Testosterone.  They accept this and almost proudly swear by it. “Yup, I can’t help it. I’m a man. It’s Testosterone.” Great. It is. I hear ya. I’m ruled by Estrogen and 4 days out of the month when I am pre-menstrual, I have a proclivity towards anger, sadness and a general fog because my hormones are not balanced as my body prepares for my period. I am told “This doesn’t exist.” But it’s just me and MY hormones. But nope. When it’s women’s hormones it’s in our heads. We are not allowed to be biological creatures.

LOOK HOW MAN TIMES JOHN BOEHNER HAS CRIED AND PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO ELECT A FEMALE PRESIDENT BECAUSE THEY ARE SEEN AS TOO EMOTIONAL.

Also, ain’t nothing wrong with emotion. Let’s all embrace it and not act like it’s shameful for any gender.

REAL TALK

Some idiot named Tim Kwong was identified as the person who flipped over the first police car on Wednesday night (the one that set the fiery dominoes falling) and he’s pretty much Public Enemy Douchebag No. 1 in this city right now, so nobody is surprised he turned himself in and is now throwing himself at the feet of Facebook in the hopes of absolution. I’d say this response is a pretty good indication that for most of us, including this downtown ER nurse who self-identifies only as “J.J.”, his “appoligy” is not accepted.

(PS: the hospital in question, St. Paul’s, happens to also be the same one where my mother was born.)