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Women Are Too Emotional
<p>Women are too emotional.</p><p>That’s what we’ve been told.</p><p><br/></p><p>Too emotional to lead.</p><p>Too emotional to make decisions.</p><p>Too emotional to handle pressure.</p><p><br/></p><p>But a little boy can throw a fit because you broke his toy,</p><p>and everyone laughs.</p><p>“My oh my… boys will be boys”</p><p>A grown man can punch a wall because he’s angry,</p><p>and somehow, “that’s just how men are”</p><p>lol.</p><p><br/></p><p>A football team loses a match,</p><p>and in some homes, a woman waits for her dear husband to come home wondering what kind of night it will be.</p><p>Because sometimes, his team losing means her losing too.</p><p>Her peace.</p><p>Her safety.</p><p>Her body.</p><p>and somehow … she is still the emotional one.</p><p><br/></p><p>Women have been beaten.</p><p>raped.</p><p>burned.</p><p>humiliated.</p><p>even killed.</p><p>Women in places that are torn apart by war and poverty have lived through things no human should have to live through.</p><p><br/></p><p>And still, we hear:</p><p>“Women are too emotional.”</p><p>Too emotional?</p><p><br/></p><p>For most of history,</p><p>the emotions women have known best</p><p>have been fear and tears.</p><p>Fear of walking home alone.</p><p>Fear of saying no.</p><p>Fear of making him angry.</p><p>Fear of becoming another name people whisper after a tragedy.</p><p><br/></p><p>But the good thing is we are learning.</p><p>Learning to love without fear.</p><p>Learning to speak without shaking.</p><p>Learning to stand without asking permission.</p><p>Learning that softness is not weakness.</p><p>Because maybe women were never too emotional.</p><p><br/></p><p>We just learned to hide our emotions better.</p><p><br/></p><p>A woman’s anger is called attitude.</p><p>A man’s anger is called passion.</p><p><br/></p><p>A woman cries, and she’s unstable.</p><p>A man rages, and he’s “just going through something/he is going through a lot.”</p><p><br/></p><p>A woman cares too much, and she’s weak.</p><p>A man destroys too much, and he’s powerful.</p><p><br/></p><p>So maybe the question was never,</p><p>“Why are women so emotional?”</p><p><br/></p><p>I feel the question should have been:</p><p>“Why did we spend so long calling men’s anger strength and women’s strength emotion?”</p>
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