how to stop being too sensitive

Thomas Shaw30 May, 2022Business

Sensitive and emotional are two different things, but often the nuance escapes those quick to use either adjective to dismiss someone as less than. For women, sensitivity and rationality are often wedged against each other as mutually exclusive. Blaming someone for being too sensitive dismisses their reality as irrational and immediately paints them as a victim. It tells them how they should feel, too. Most importantly, it turns a positive trait into a personality defect. It is, in my opinion, one of the most pointed and destructive insults you can hurl, which of course gives it so much power.