"Everyone is."
-- Anarchists
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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Well, in the spirit of nitpicky infighting; it's not necessarily how emotional people are that's the problem.
Edit: and you're a reactionary for not articulating that nuance.
I would say that Trump is male but not a man.
Based only on my personal experience and no wider data, I think that the odds are good that if a leader is male then he’s probably leading with his emotions rather than sound judgment.
All but one of the female leaders I’ve met have had a stronger understanding of their own emotions and how to control them.
Well, women are taught from a very young age not only how to manage their emotions but how to manage the emotions of men around them too, so that would make sense.
and men are taught to shove their emotions deep down only for it to come out during thanksgiving or vikings games
lol my husband thinks so! No not really but he definitely thinks men are far more emotional than women
I don’t know about more emotional on average, but I can totally see how emotional repression can lead to bigger emotional outbursts.
Those that seek leadership should not lead.
I think the entire concept of 'leadership' we have is toxic AF
Imagine being in an extraordinarily high stacks situation with billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives on the line. Your ability to think logically and critically is vital to the success of your enterprise. You have perhaps a couple of hours to make a fully interrogated strategy with multiple levels of complexity and contingency.
And just as you begin this seemingly herculean assignment... you develop a hard-on. Blood evacuating your brain to power your penis. In a matter of moments, the male brain has been starved of a fundamental ingredient for high end mental processing.
This is why nations fail.
I thought you were going to say, "...and then you get nervous and do a nazi salute."
Please, gentlemen, no fighting in the War Room!
Not sure if joking but this is my head canon
I expected "and there's a group of screaming teenagers in the room with you... This is what it's like trying to make a plan with the likes of Donald Trump and Elon Musk in the room"
I feel like the men in your scenario don't lose very much blood during an erection.
As a dude, absolutely. Men are the most emotional people I have ever met. The only reason men think that women are more emotional is because they misinterpret emotional intelligence with being emotional. Y'all have had this figured out for centuries while the men have been bumbling idiots that'll start a war just to avoid being feeling inadequate or sad for a few days.
It’s a weird disconnect like if I don’t acknowledge it, it’s not real, so if I don’t acknowledge my emotions they don’t exist. Well they do exist, acknowledged or not, understood or not, emotions are human. Refusing to engage with them simply means they’re free to run wild and direct your life, but acknowledged, understood and channeled? That’s intuition, it’s basically a superpower
As a fellow dude, I second this.
yes.
source: am male
Love that you're posting here in a positive way. We get lots of hostile men, so the reasonable ones really stand out
oof. just found this community - i'll sub to try and represent some non-shitty male world views <3
Ditto
People are too emotional for positions of leadership.
Terf ideology is being pushed by troll farms right now to induce infighting.
Whaaaaaaaat?
Name ONE time in history where a man let emotions.....
checks all of human history
Okay name 47 BILLION times.
Checkmate, ~~atheists~~ feminists.
Haha I love it!!! I've screenshotted it for future amusement
As a man, yes. Clearly.
Yes.
InB4 a herd of boys gets here to say:
"This is OUTRAGEOUS! How DARE you speak of us like that?! If I were god-emperor of Lemmy, I'd crush you in an instant! Then there would be peace and fairness in the land."
and
"I'm no sophist, but I guess every woman thinks that all men should be slaves, huh? I'm just asking honest questions."
and
"Look, I think women should have the freedom to agree with me; I'm as progressive as the next guy! But... don't you think this whole 'autonomous thinking' nonsense has gone a bit too far?"
and
"It's divisive comments like this which prove that women alone started the Cold War and are solely responsible for all modern conflicts of today. This wouldn't happen if we men got to be in charge for a change. I just want equality!"
and
"Who is Humor? I've never heard of him. However, this 'Sam Stein' female must be another one of them radicals. I better unnecessarily tell WitchesVsPatriarchy that they're wrong for allowing this post to get to /all!"
Amazing, a literal strawMan
We should have a Manosphere bingo board with all this shit on it.
Have a bot generate a card for each post, then tell people when replies in a thread get bingo!
How fucking dare you even dream of the audacity question my authority! I'll kill you're whole family!
/S
Yes. Next question.