My shorthand belief here is that men are more emotional than women, but expected/trained to be more stoic. Women less sentimental, but more expressive. Totally untestable without getting inside someone’s head, but if you keep that model in mind a lot of stuff makes sense.
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I agree with all of these guesses aside from there being a difference between the sexes in subjectively experienced emotion.
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I would bet on that too, just from conversations with trans folks about the way their subjective emotional experiences shifted when they swapped up their hormone levels
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the usual stories being transwomen "wow I feel really strongly/tear up about everything now" and transmen "wow I suddenly want to punch everyone" ymmv natch
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Yeah it's complicated. Men whose T has been temporarily low may be sullen and grouchy and then when it comes back up they're both calmer and more prone to flashes of anger. I would say the male emotional economy is more peak-y. With the exception of chronic stress.
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im glad i could help prepare the world for its arrival
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eigenrobot the forerunner
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there is definitely a double standard to be honest I don't know that the double standard bothers me that much
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mostly not me either i mean if it obtains likely explanation is "male capacity to do physical violence is quite generally vastly greater" so given limited attention makes sense to direct it there but maybe some edge cases are interesting
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also, do women play fight as kids? I used to fight with my brothers, it would devolve into fists and kicking and stuff and my parents would break it up, and I think that's where most boys learn self control my impression (never had any sisters) is that girls mostly don't fight
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and by used to I mean below the age of 7
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I have felt capable of doing violence to another person but I didn't feel capable of actually doing purposeful injury or worse before antiandrogens, so go figure.
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My father taught me to fight right around the time I hit adolescence. He also explained that men will tend to be stronger than me, so that I was aware of my environment and what could be used as a weapon. He also said he wished he didn't feel he had to teach me that.
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That said, I only had to be violent toward a man once. He was the aggressor. I defended myself. Yes, I was taught only to use enough force to end the confrontation. I did. I would never strike a man first.
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I heard gay couples are more likely to experience domestic violence than straight couples. You'd have to look into lesbians specifically to check your theory.
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(yes, lesbian have higher rates of DV than gay men)
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