3 thoughts on “sometimes late at night i’m so very tired its difficult for me to think and so i settle into a pattern of just feeling instead. i don’t want to sound like a woman, but sometimes emotion is easier than rational thought. is that chauvinistic somehow? it seems chauvinistic”

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   Your title, to answer the question it poses, could be called chauvinistic (with the connotation of a male’s superior attitude toward women) because it accepts the premise that women are emotional and men are rational. I see no evidence of truth in that premise; it’s rather an out-dated construction of gender roles. Since we can’t demonstrate that men are fundamentally more rational than women, we must accept that the above premise is faulty. We could compile a generous amount of evidence to show that human beings frequently favor emotion over rationality in decision-making. Therefore, it would be more accurate if the poet said, “I don’t want to sound like a normal human being, but sometimes emotion is easier than rational thought.”

   Of course, this idea leads us to Nietzsche’s “Birth of Tragedy,” wherein the Apollonian is rational and the Dionysian non-rational, and, ideally, we are a combination of both…part Apollonian, part Dionysian, partly rational, partly emotional; to use the gender stereotype, part male and part female. Talk about a mindwarp. By now it must be clear that I’m simply trying to write the longest comment of all time.

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   as someone who clearly was going for the longest title of all time, i can relate to your feelings

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   I feel you.