i recently heard an interview on the radio with an author about the teenage years, teenage depression etc. He reckoned that while teenage years are difficult for most people, that are harder for females, because females have a tendency to worry more.
now, whatever about teenage depression, i do think that women are probably more prone to anxiety, and are more likely to think 'what if', whereas men are more like: 'this happened and now there's going to be a sequence of events'.
but i dont think it actually has to do with gender. i think it has to do with how the person's parents parented them as a child. in general, when a child does something wrong, parents seem to tell boys that they must behave in a particular way in future, and tell girls that they should have done things differently. this gives rise to many men repressing their emotions, and many women being neurotic about what they have done wrong in any given situation.
Thursday, 5 March 2009
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I tend to agree with your beliefs about how men think different than women as a result of how they were raised. "Boys will be boys."
"Sit up straight or you'll wrinkle your dress!"
So true. As usual...you are bang on! :)
Another thing to consider is that women are - or are encouraged more to be - more articulate about emotions and do create an inner dialogue more readily. This has good points to it, but it also means that worries and anxieties are dwelled with a little more rather than being deflected in action or merged down into wordlessness.
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