I don't know many men who have bust into tears when someone on the project disagreed with them. i also don't know of many women whose pride is such a huge part of their person they fuck their job/career up. they are different but its simplistic to say its down to sex. it is the whole person.
I don't know many women who have burst into tears either... But both examples above happen to men and women in pretty equal measure. My boss gets into the office at 7am, and leaves at 7pm, has no social life and is a sociopath to boot - there's not a caring bone in her body. I'm a caring, emotional person, and hate showing any kind of aggression.
What I'm saying is that it's inappropriate to apply a biological determiner to someone's behaviour. I don't see crying as being either masculine or feminine behaviour, the same as I don't see aggression or strength as such.
I don't really see that we're disagreeing though - in fact, when you say "it's simplistic to say it's down to sex", it looks like we're very much on the same page - unless I missed something?
I don't know many women who have burst into tears either... But both examples above happen to men and women in pretty equal measure. My boss gets into the office at 7am, and leaves at 7pm, has no social life and is a sociopath to boot - there's not a caring bone in her body. I'm a caring, emotional person, and hate showing any kind of aggression.
What I'm saying is that it's inappropriate to apply a biological determiner to someone's behaviour. I don't see crying as being either masculine or feminine behaviour, the same as I don't see aggression or strength as such.
I don't really see that we're disagreeing though - in fact, when you say "it's simplistic to say it's down to sex", it looks like we're very much on the same page - unless I missed something?