The Differences Between Men and Women
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Why do some groups try to make men and women angry at each other?
There's a lot of organizations, a lot of individuals who seem to just want us to be angry at each other. I want to know why. Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents. Multiple groups have done an experiment like this. They would take some men and women and they would watch these other group of people playing cards or playing a game. And if someone was playing the game fairly, And they were unfairly shocked. Some kind of mild shock that was unfair. They were playing the game just fine.
What experiment shows men and women react differently to fairness and punishment?
Both the men and the women had negative emotions about this thing. Then when they showed people playing and they were cheating at the game and those people were shocked, it turned out, it seemed like that largely the men had a positive response to this. They were like, good, this person was doing something unfair. They were cheating. And so they're breaking the rule. This is the consequence. Whereas women had negative, overall negative responses to that as well. So again, when it was unfair, clearly unfair, both men and women experienced this negative emotion in response to the shock. When it was fairly administered, though, the men had a sense of positive response to it and the women had a negative response to this.
Now, people have extrapolated this and said things like, again, it's a broad strokes. It's really broad strokes. It's not one of those things like here's a single one test. This is what all women do. All men do. Not that the case. That's not the case. What some people have said is that men were more kind of rule-oriented, where women were more people-oriented. So if men would see, okay, these are the rules that were broken, great, here is the consequence. Whereas women would still have that negative emotion because even if the rules were broken, they would identify more with the individual, the person, and say, well, there's someone who's suffering, even if it's justly someone suffering. And so maybe the old
A stereotype or maybe it's cliche or maybe it's actually true that men are largely oriented more towards things and women are largely oriented more towards people. Anyways, the point of this is this. I heard people who are looking at these kind of experiments and saying, well, here's how men react to this and here's how women react to this and then using that experiment to pit men and women against each other. That's that sense of saying, well, see, this is the reason why men need to be not in these kind of roles because look at how quickly, how quick they are to be cruel. Look at how quickly they are to jump to this, you know, mildly painful, but still painful consequence of breaking the rules.
Now, on the other hand, because like women, oh my gosh, Even when someone is doing something wrong, they're not going to be willing to enforce the consequence of this. And so that sense of saying, this is so fascinating, to say just because men and women are different, they're being pitted against each other. Now, whenever something like this happens, I think one of the first questions we have to ask is, A, is it true? That's the first thing, right? Because again, as I said, it's not like there's one necessary, one singular experiment that's demonstrated this. Also, it's not 100% consistently true. Also, the extrapolation in the sense of what's the interpretation of this data? Are we coming to the accurate conclusions about the differences between men and women?
But beyond that, we get to ask the question, what does this tell us and what does this not tell us? I think there's something about some people who are very, very quick to grab on to, here's a tendency in men's behavior that would say, oh, that disqualifies them. Or here's a tendency in women's behavior that, oh, that disqualifies them. And whenever I see that, I always wonder, who is it that wants to reduce either a man's role in culture or a woman's role in culture? Because you could see that and say, again, they're disqualified. You need to be able to administer consequences. Now, I would say on the side, my mom, she did not shy away from consequences, even painful consequences when it came to breaking the rules.
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