'Men are NOT more logical. They simply lack empathy.'

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In this episode of Elle's podcast, she dives into the book "How to Think Like a Woman" by Regan Penaluna, exploring how philosophy has historically been gatekept from women. Elle discusses:
- The importance of philosophy for everyone, not just academics
- How the historical exclusion of women from philosophy impacts modern women's daily lives
- The concept of women's imposter syndrome and its prevalence in high-achieving women
- The "mental load" that women often carry in managing households and families
- The "beauty myth" and how it relates to gatekeeping women from intellectual discourse
Elle encourages listeners to challenge societal expectations, embrace their intelligence, and support other women in their intellectual pursuits.

[WriterBug]

"Just tell me what to do" inevitably becomes "stop nagging me" if you have to tell them every day what they need to be doing

[kausha]

Here's one that kills me. My boyfriend and male friends tell me when someone is crying, they can't take them seriously. So...I could be giving the most rational, thought out, groundbreaking speech of my life, but if I'm in tears, I'm not to be taken seriously??? So my tears can make a man SO uncomfortable, that he can't actually make sense of my words??? I don't Sounds pretty illogical and lost in his emotions to me 🤔

[ComradeThrenody]

I remember when I visited a semiconductor manufacturing building that most of the staff putting the circuit boards together were women. When I told the host how nice it was to see so many women working directly in this field they said "yea, when the job requires more detail and critical thinking skills we just so happened to notice that women tend to think more logically at these jobs than men. But much of our sales team is filled with men because they tend to be more pushy with customers and less likely to take no for an answer". I just found that to be very interesting 🤭especially what he said about males in sales.

[mikochild]

"Men are supposed to be heads of households, but they don't even know how to run one." Bars...

[SassyStrawberry]

When i moved out from my ex he kept saying "oh, youll see how much i do for u! Youll miss me!"
Ive literally never been so at peace. My sleep has improved, the house is tidy and quiet, no one is asking me questions all the time. Its so nice.

[Nonnitot]

The biggest threat to the patriarchy is besties waking up to their own power

[zoilalulu]

Intuition is a type of intelligence. I don't think we should diminish that just because men don't understand it.

[VelvetRed-rzur]

This 25:00 reminded me of Liziqi.. that Chinese smart youtuber who created amazing content where she learned multiple skills and made absolutely everything from scratch (from growing her own food, to building her own furniture, or her own pond on her land) all by herself.. and she received hate for being unmarried on her 30’s.. meanwhile she became the most watched popular influencer and made a lot money.. but the men on the internet where mad she was successful and rich and didn’t do all of that labor for a man. If she would claim to be a trad wife instead they would of praise her.. but she did it for herself and her grandmother

[rosethorne]

Once when I was in college, my then-boyfriend asked me (rhetorically) why there were so few women authors before a certain date, and why there were no women philosophers. (?! Yeah. He thought that.)
I responded, coldly, that the reason was because SOMEBODY had to wash all those high thinking mens' dishes and cook dinner.
He was stunned and didn’t respond.

There's actually an essay, titled 'Shakespeare's Sister', about exactly that--what if William had a sister exactly as talented and well-read as he was, who also wanted to write? Of course her life turned out drastically worse, with the foremost thing being that her parents didn't send her to school OR give her any free time to write, and beat her when she rebelled.

I used to roll my eyes at most men who worshipped classical philosophy and philosophers. Of course they had time to sit around asking questions like, "What is a human soul made of?" When OTHER PEOPLE were cooking their food and cleaning up behind them, exactly as if they were giant, bearded toddlers.

[nharber]

Men aren’t more logical. They’ve been trained that emotions and vulnerability are the enemy, that “real men” are stoic and don’t feel, and that the only emotions that are acceptable for them to express or experience are anger and aggression.

[LalaDepala_]

My ex was always saying these things.

"Men are more rational"
"Men are more responsible"
"Women are too emotional"

Meanwhile he couldn't even clean his room or wake up at an early hour. He also sold his parakeet because that was too much effort.

[em.]

Emotion is not the antagonist of logic. I’m glad we’re not letting them get away with saying dumb, misogynistic stuff online and challenging this caveman nonsense.

[elenahauser]

Men are so much driven by emotions…I saw that so many times.

[rustyshackleford]

They don’t gaf. I’m a cook and the male conversations I hear on the daily is enough for me to never deal with them again.

[paprikapringless]

I saw a post somewhere: “I’ve hardly ever seen in real life such incredible men as they show in movies, and I’ve hardly ever seen in movies such incredible women I so often see in real life” and it stuck with me.

[kf]

That statistic about women only applying when they meet 100% of the job posting's qualifications really pisses me off so badly as a female Systems Administrator. I all too frequently *don't get* jobs that I qualify 100% or 110% for -- then they turn around and hire a man with fewer or even little to no qualifications. That's why women aren't applying to jobs where we meet less than all of the qualifications -- we're time and again rejected if we don't meet every single qualification, so why waste our energy?

[alaskayoung]

intuition is basically emotional intelligence. which is ALSO intelligence.

[nanadecarvalho]

I was just on instagram and saw on my feed a video saying that the fastest way to end your crush on a man is to ask him about social issues (human rights, feminism, gender roles, etc) and see how he reacts. The comment section was full of girls saying that a lot of men are dismissive to those issues, and I said to myself “of course they don’t care about social issues, most men lack empathy” and now I’m seeing this video from you. We are on the same frequency, I love it.

[PotsandPansWhatsPotsandPans]

Seeing families from the inside as a nanny had a huge impact on my decision not to have children- because of the way the game is rigged against women. I saw the pain in the working moms' eyes when they kissed their little one goodbye. I lied about first steps and first words I was the one to witness.
At the park I still saw guilt in the stay at home mom's eyes. They wanted to know my secret to the endless energy and patience I had with the toddlers I watched. I would explain the 9-5 job allowed for 8 hours of sleep a night but the fact that it was my job was so much deeper. First, with experience and good word of mouth I was able to charge a decent rate. My efforts and the labor involved in childcare were recognized and paid appropriately for. Additionally I loved those children fiercely but no one expected me to sacrifice all my time to them. I was allowed to keep my own separate identity and have time to spend as I wanted with no one, including myslef, making me feel guilty for doing

I just want to add that the guilt any stay at home mom felt was bullshit and about impossible standards, double standards and never being allowed to be good enough as a woman

[kylaarmstrong-benjamin]

Yeah these fathers became parents the same day the mother did.
But don't know what household tasks need to be done daily?