Emotional, the word that can turn the Amazon rainforest into the Sahara desert. 

The word that makes a woman flinch even if you never raised your hand. 

The power of words lies not in their meaning but in the mental picture they paint. 

Each word leaves us with a mental image and in the minds of women, emotional can leave the worst of images. 

It paints an image of a woman who is angry for no reason. You know, seeing as a woman can only ‘overreact’

Emotional paints a canvass of a mad woman screaming in the streets with her hair sticking out in different directions. 

The synonym for emotional in a woman’s dictionary is crazy. 

And no one likes to be called crazy.

In a world where she is being shunned and told to be calm and logical, emotional makes her feel like a woman without caution. 

Emotional reminds her of all the times she had pushed her comfort to the back of her mind and acted logically and the one time she expresses herself, she is called crazy, sorry emotional. 

Emotional reminds her of how she should have acted when she felt that hand inappropriately placed but swallowed it down because she didn’t want to fit the description of the crazy woman making up stories. 

Emotional reminds her of the times she wanted to scream out loud but kept mute because society fauns over a woman until she has an opinion. 

Emotional calls to memory the experiences that her mother couldn’t save her from and the experiences she might not be able to shield her daughter from. 

So before you say, ‘you’re being too emotional’ try, ‘I can see you are very disturbed on this issue.’ 

And that makes all the difference.