The "your anger nullifies your argument" fail always boggles my mind.
In an Educational Psych class a couple of years ago, we did some activity (I wish I could remember the exact details) that basically came down to categorizing personality traits like "rational," "assertive," "emotional," etc. Then they showed us which traits were, on average, considered more desirable. And THEN they showed us which traits were correlated with gender. Lo and behold, pretty much all the more valuable traits were considered "male."
That blew my mind.
The point I wanted to make is that "rational" was on that list of both male and valuable, and every single time some jerk pulls that "your feelings invalidate your argument" bit I remember that assignment.
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Date: 2010-03-06 04:27 am (UTC)In an Educational Psych class a couple of years ago, we did some activity (I wish I could remember the exact details) that basically came down to categorizing personality traits like "rational," "assertive," "emotional," etc. Then they showed us which traits were, on average, considered more desirable. And THEN they showed us which traits were correlated with gender. Lo and behold, pretty much all the more valuable traits were considered "male."
That blew my mind.
The point I wanted to make is that "rational" was on that list of both male and valuable, and every single time some jerk pulls that "your feelings invalidate your argument" bit I remember that assignment.