emotional

in our culture, "emotional" is not an admired trait; the word is most often used as an antonym for "rational" or "intelligent." Largely because of changing social attitudes toward women, "emotional" is not used as often as it once was to rebut a woman's arguments or generally discount her as a thinking human being. The problem today, says M. Adam (in Men Freeing Men), is that "women can now wax logical while men look silly waxing emotional." Until men are free to wax emotional and "emotional" is a positive word for both sexes, use it cautiously. See also irrational.