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Romanticism: Miscellanea

Anger and Irascibility
Sentimentality shows itself most often in women as sadness,
pessimism, weeping and whinniness, while in men it appears
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generally as anger, irascibility, and aggression. For example, when an
emotional man sees that his place in a parking garage has been taken
by someone else, he will shout and kick the intruding car. Or, if
someone bumps into him on the sidewalk by mistake, he will easily
lose his temper. Or, if his son or daughter left the house and forgot the
key inside, if a waiter is late bringing the bill, if a secretary makes him
wait on telephone, or if he is irritated by traffic, he will say the first
thing that comes to his mind. Confronted with problems that a rational
person could deal with easily, even without occupying his mind with
the hundreds of details involved, an emotional person would react in
an unnecessarily exaggerated manner. And, most of the time, he
merely harms himself and ends up humiliated.
Emotionalism in men takes the form of anger and irascibility, and
is often regarded as the quality of a "tough-guy" or "macho." This
psychology is merely an amalgam of anger and romanticism, while
most of those affected by it are unbalanced, and have a tendency to
lose their temper, or "go off the handle." As a result of a moment of
rashness, they may hurt or injure someone, or even kill; their victim
could easily be a total stranger. Pages of newspapers are often filled
with the crimes and offences committed by this type of personality. An

If a person is hot tempered, unable to
control his anger, yells, shouts and
injures himself or others, it is clear that
his actions are provoked by his
emotions, not his reason.