I was going to agree with your original (stereotypical) assertion, but what about things like war for the sake or asserting power/control/ego, or the crazy infatuation so many men have with sports — something that doesn’t affect their lives one iota, but something that they will sacrifice their families for (football widows, and all that)? That’s not logical, that’s emotional. It just looks different, perhaps, from how women show their emotions.
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Well, as far as war goes, I agree with you that it’s emotional and truly messed up. But most men, in their daily lives, don’t go to war.
Men don’t spend time apart from their women because of sports. Men spend time away from their women because they want to spend time away from their women.