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> I have a theory that women are less likely to be, I guess the word would be "assertive", than men. If this has been your experience, I'd encourage you to con
by jlebar 9y ago
> I have a theory that women are less likely to be, I guess the word would be "assertive", than men.
If this has been your experience, I'd encourage you to consider why that might be the case.
Here's one possibility: Perhaps in our culture, assertive women are treated worse than assertive men.
- anjc 9y agoThat's one possibility, yeah
- fav_collector 9y agoOr that non-assertive women are treated well and non-assertive men are treated poorly. Men have to learn to be assertive to be treated as well as women. You can see this dynamic in the dating world where non-assertive men are the losers of the game.
- oculusthrift 9y agoyeah or they don't have testosterone or any form of latent aggression built in, which is required for assertiveness