“Let her speak please”

Re:“Let her speak please” by jlebar on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @12:06PM (#14507495)

> 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.

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Re:“Let her speak please” by fav_collector on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @01:16PM (#14508087)

Or 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.

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Re:“Let her speak please” by oculusthrift on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @06:18PM (#14510294)

yeah or they don't have testosterone or any form of latent aggression built in, which is required for assertiveness

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Re:“Let her speak please” by anjc on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @12:23PM (#14507643)

That's one possibility, yeah

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