🙄 Stupid is right. It's moronic. We are emotional beings. As a musician, I think they're essential, music being the language of emotion. And if they weren't useful we wouldn't have evolved them. Would these idiots have us be emotionless automata? Then we might as well be replaced by AI. The only time you need to hide emotions is when yo…
🙄 Stupid is right. It's moronic. We are emotional beings. As a musician, I think they're essential, music being the language of emotion. And if they weren't useful we wouldn't have evolved them. Would these idiots have us be emotionless automata? Then we might as well be replaced by AI. The only time you need to hide emotions is when you're playing poker. And I totally agree with you that we'd be much better off without the dicks that think emotions are a bad thing, a weakness. What kind of life would it be without emotions? Sure, there'd be no pain, anguish or anxiety but there'd be no joy, no fun, no meaning either. No art, no literature, no music, no wonder, no awe, no curiosity, no great cooking, no entertainment, no play, no value, no laughter, no beauty, no love. It would be a grey, drab, colourless existence with nothing new just endless repetition. Emotions are fundamental to everything we do, they define us.
The majority of communication is nonverbal (according to my browsers AI assistant, “70-93%: body language, facial expression, eye contact, tone of voice”) and that implies that someone with an expressive face is a much better communicator. I for one find the expressiveness of Kamala's face delightful and refreshing. Her smile is so genuine and sincere, it lights up a room and immediately puts you at ease and makes you feel better, relaxed. Her face is guileless, there is no wish to hide, obscure or deceive. The opposite of express is conceal, suppress, withhold, repress (and repressing emotions is, at best, damaging; at worst it's a totally disastrous nightmare) and in this context none of those are good. They would have the opposite effect, make you tense, suspicious and distrustful, put you on your guard. How is that a promising or effective way to start a negotiation? We've even invented emoticons to try to put expression back into our written communications.
You may have sensed some anger here but I doubt you know quite how angry it makes me when I hear emotions described as if they're handicaps. I haven't heard anything negative about emotions for a long tim but it's always infuriated me. Still, I was surprised how intense and visceral my response was. I despise that attitude, it's just so utterly f***ed up. It demeans and dismisses our capacity for empathy, one of our most miraculous and astonishing capabilities and one of the few things that truly distinguishes us from most other species (I'm sure dolphins, porpoises, cetaceans and apes have it and dogs too, at least to some degree). All that ‘big boys don't cry’, ‘stiff upper lip’, ‘don't wear your heart on your sleeve’ useless, misguided screwed up BS.
Well, never mind. If that's the worst criticism they can muster or the biggest insult they can come up with it's so pathetic and risible it's laughable. They might as well give up, pack up and go home
I have a funny anecdote on the "women are so emotional" attitude. A male colleague in my law office had a disagreement with me about the interpretation of something--a statute or case, can't recall which. We were discussing, really arguing about it--he was one of those "I'm always right, don't you disagree with me girlie" guys. I was actually correct in my interpretation and had the case law to back it up. But something set him off and he suddenly literally SCREAMED "Women are so emotional" and went on a full blown, full volume rant about it. I sat there blinking. Afterwards I went out--the secretaries and clerks were rolling their eyes and laughing out loud at his meltdown. You could hear it all over the office, apparently. YOWLING about how women were too emotional and couldn't analyze things. Irony abounding.
There's emotion and then there's "emotion." Defending bullshit at top volume comes under the heading of "too much."
🤣 Sounds like he wasn't very self aware. Ironic sums it up. Of course there are negative emotions as well as positive but if they were all positive we wouldn't appreciate the positive. Thank you for that, it made me laugh.
The follow up is even funnier. He was definitely overtly scornful of women as lawyers. He later left to head the legal department of one of our suburbs. We discovered that his department was ALL women.
I agree that the no emotion garbage is a abuse of boys and men. Unfortunately the only approved of emotion allowed them is anger. Therefore anytime they feel something they express it as anger. To be human is to be connected to all your emotions and that is where all creativity, joy and love reside. Good for you Nicholas. 💕
Emotions are the closest thing to super powers we have. Emotions act as beacons that point us at the things we love.
If someone is emotionless are they also loveless? That is really sad.
The thing we ignore far too often is that leadership is solely a craft involving people. If you don’t have a team you can’t lead.
When I look at the best leaders I have had a chance to work with (I train leaders, so I have seen a few) the super leaders are not your big alpha male take charge type, instead they respect their teams, they get to know each team member and truly connect with them, and the language they connect with is emotions.
🙄 Stupid is right. It's moronic. We are emotional beings. As a musician, I think they're essential, music being the language of emotion. And if they weren't useful we wouldn't have evolved them. Would these idiots have us be emotionless automata? Then we might as well be replaced by AI. The only time you need to hide emotions is when you're playing poker. And I totally agree with you that we'd be much better off without the dicks that think emotions are a bad thing, a weakness. What kind of life would it be without emotions? Sure, there'd be no pain, anguish or anxiety but there'd be no joy, no fun, no meaning either. No art, no literature, no music, no wonder, no awe, no curiosity, no great cooking, no entertainment, no play, no value, no laughter, no beauty, no love. It would be a grey, drab, colourless existence with nothing new just endless repetition. Emotions are fundamental to everything we do, they define us.
The majority of communication is nonverbal (according to my browsers AI assistant, “70-93%: body language, facial expression, eye contact, tone of voice”) and that implies that someone with an expressive face is a much better communicator. I for one find the expressiveness of Kamala's face delightful and refreshing. Her smile is so genuine and sincere, it lights up a room and immediately puts you at ease and makes you feel better, relaxed. Her face is guileless, there is no wish to hide, obscure or deceive. The opposite of express is conceal, suppress, withhold, repress (and repressing emotions is, at best, damaging; at worst it's a totally disastrous nightmare) and in this context none of those are good. They would have the opposite effect, make you tense, suspicious and distrustful, put you on your guard. How is that a promising or effective way to start a negotiation? We've even invented emoticons to try to put expression back into our written communications.
You may have sensed some anger here but I doubt you know quite how angry it makes me when I hear emotions described as if they're handicaps. I haven't heard anything negative about emotions for a long tim but it's always infuriated me. Still, I was surprised how intense and visceral my response was. I despise that attitude, it's just so utterly f***ed up. It demeans and dismisses our capacity for empathy, one of our most miraculous and astonishing capabilities and one of the few things that truly distinguishes us from most other species (I'm sure dolphins, porpoises, cetaceans and apes have it and dogs too, at least to some degree). All that ‘big boys don't cry’, ‘stiff upper lip’, ‘don't wear your heart on your sleeve’ useless, misguided screwed up BS.
Well, never mind. If that's the worst criticism they can muster or the biggest insult they can come up with it's so pathetic and risible it's laughable. They might as well give up, pack up and go home
I have a funny anecdote on the "women are so emotional" attitude. A male colleague in my law office had a disagreement with me about the interpretation of something--a statute or case, can't recall which. We were discussing, really arguing about it--he was one of those "I'm always right, don't you disagree with me girlie" guys. I was actually correct in my interpretation and had the case law to back it up. But something set him off and he suddenly literally SCREAMED "Women are so emotional" and went on a full blown, full volume rant about it. I sat there blinking. Afterwards I went out--the secretaries and clerks were rolling their eyes and laughing out loud at his meltdown. You could hear it all over the office, apparently. YOWLING about how women were too emotional and couldn't analyze things. Irony abounding.
There's emotion and then there's "emotion." Defending bullshit at top volume comes under the heading of "too much."
🤣 Sounds like he wasn't very self aware. Ironic sums it up. Of course there are negative emotions as well as positive but if they were all positive we wouldn't appreciate the positive. Thank you for that, it made me laugh.
The follow up is even funnier. He was definitely overtly scornful of women as lawyers. He later left to head the legal department of one of our suburbs. We discovered that his department was ALL women.
He lasted a couple of months. Out on his ear.
🤣 Serves him right! He sounds like a real arsehole.
I've had that happen a few times to me. I actually saw him turning purple. I believe I said well there is Male Menopause too. 😸
I agree that the no emotion garbage is a abuse of boys and men. Unfortunately the only approved of emotion allowed them is anger. Therefore anytime they feel something they express it as anger. To be human is to be connected to all your emotions and that is where all creativity, joy and love reside. Good for you Nicholas. 💕
Thank you!
Emotions are the closest thing to super powers we have. Emotions act as beacons that point us at the things we love.
If someone is emotionless are they also loveless? That is really sad.
The thing we ignore far too often is that leadership is solely a craft involving people. If you don’t have a team you can’t lead.
When I look at the best leaders I have had a chance to work with (I train leaders, so I have seen a few) the super leaders are not your big alpha male take charge type, instead they respect their teams, they get to know each team member and truly connect with them, and the language they connect with is emotions.