
(Source: topherchris)
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
as the day some people tried to tell everybody else how to feel.
Guess what? You don’t get to do that.
People mark milestones in different ways. Haters gonna hate, and celebraters gonna celebrate.
I’m Canadian, and even I know that.
It’s what both Trev and I have been saying. Canucks in 5. Gonna be a lot sweeter on home ice anyway.
They might be up on us by 2 quick goals, but I still say the Hawks are out in 5. We still got this. They’ll get sloppy.
“The red light is a kind of enemy that prevents us from attaining our goal. But we can also see the red light as a bell of mindfulness, reminding us to return to the present moment. The next time you see a red light, please smile at it and go back to your breathing. ‘Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile.’ It is easy to transform a feeling of irritation into a pleasant feeling. Although it is the same red light, it becomes different. It becomes a friend, helping us remember that it is only in the present moment that we can live our lives.” — Thich Nhat Hanh, Driving Meditation, Peace Is Every Step
2011 looking a lot like 2010.
Take one TV show you haven’t gotten around to watching yet that everyone is all jizzballs over*…
Add four seasons worth of next-day internet fapping…
Multiply by the number of people you follow on Tumblr…
Divide by how many hours you spend online…
So, what does it all mean?
I’ll need to avoid the internet for approximately 2.3 days every time a new episode of Mad Men airs in order to avoid being bored to tears.
(*YES, I KNOW I’D LIKE IT. I GET THAT. And maybe if everyone would put their erections away for five minutes I might actually attempt to start watching it, but all the jerking off is just wayyy too much at this point. Funny that the most retro drama on TV is on par with new Apple product releases in the way it perpetuates an inescapable logjam of insidery nerdboners.)