In my last Power and Religion class of this semester, I found myself thinking about the gendered way we all see the world. The student sitting next to me was speaking about how he hoped one day our society would be able to make decisions based on logic and reason without emotion. He felt that emotion clouded our decisions in negative ways. (In class, we have discussed how emotion plays a huge role in how we all make decisions and how we all see the world.)
As he was talking, I wanted to ask the question: Is our disdain for allowing emotion to impact our decisions sexist? Why do we disvalue emotion so much? Everyone in our culture knows that women are supposed to be more emotional. I'm still not convinced of that, but even if it is so...why is that bad? Why would we want to make decisions without our emotions?
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