I hate almost everything about the Rational Man meme, but I especially hate the complete disdain for strong displays of emotion.
Give me wrath. Give me weeping. Give me love and indeed also hate.
Leave that cold-hearted shit to the gangster-politician-businessman cluster.
I find it's more often code for rationalizing our many, immutable irrationalities.
When you construe your own irrationality as particularly rational, this rarely leads anywhere good...