15 December 2011

Extra! Extra!

Men have emotions, too!  Though they're more adept at using them and transmuting them into more helpful emotions than women (womyn?) and thereby experience fewer negative emotions than women.


Recent survey research suggests that women and men do not significantly differ with regard to their overall experience and expression of emotion, although women generally report more negative emotions (Lively and Powell 2006; Simon and Nath 2004; but see Simon and Barrett 2010). Research also suggests that men less frequently engage in emotion management to suppress anger and irritation at work (Erickson and Ritter 2001) and home (Erickson 2005) and that men are more likely than women to efficiently transform one emotion into another (Lively 2008).
Also, before anyone thinks I've given up on making fun of voodoo witchcraft bullshit (psychology, or at least the field of psychology as it stands today), notice how they say "women and men do not significantly differ with regard to their overall experience and expression of emotion" and in the same damn sentence say how radically we differ from women in regard to our overall experience and expression of emotion? What the hell is that?  How hard does this group of feminists (who wanted a reason to gawk at and hang out with super-fit alpha male types and have a university pay for the chance) have to work to rationalize that in their pointy little heads? 

Psychology: it's not a science, it's a religion. There's a reason the L. Ron Hubardites don't like psychology.  The same reason that Catholics and Protestants often clash; they're worshipping the same god, but with different rituals. (The object of the Psychologists' and Hubbardites' adoration is of course man, which is like a more honest version of all the other religions, really)





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