She really should smile more...

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16. "To be fair in the last board meeting, me pounding the desk and shouting. . ."

". . . may have been a tad emotional..."

Yes, it was. And if a man had done it, it would have been considered forceful. Maybe some people would have been taken aback, but the word "emotional" would not have been used with the scorn intended whenever that word is directed towards women.

Any Vulcan who passed Logic classes by the points of their ears could tell you that human males are the emotional ones. It is just that their emotions are --while perhaps expressed differently-- always valued differently.

I know that I shared this on another thread long ago, but I read about a sign posted in a women's shelter.

"Men are afraid that women are going to laugh at them; women are afraid that men are going to kill them."

Yes, I am perfectly willing to qualify that statement with #notallmen, because I really don't think that poorly of that half of humanity. But that statement, with all the emotional context that it touches upon, really describes the problem that patriarchy enables.