Men are emotional - a Christian/ Islam difference?!

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I just heard a muslim ( arab or south asian looking) online say ' that is why we need women, men are too emotional with their egos,'

This really struck me.

I am used to hearing statements in the white Christian or christian heritage population that men are the logical ones and women the emotional ones.

But is there a different view on this in Islam or other ethnic communities? Really interested in this.

(BTW, I have never understood where this view that men are not emotional came from, being as they clearly are).

The idea of the emotional woman and rational man goes all the way back to Plato and Aristotle who argued that women were more compassionate but unable to manage their emotions whilst men are able to curb and govern their emotions by the use of reason.
Again Stoics championed reason controlling emotions.
Frankly today we could use a good dose of the Greek philosophers' training as we live in an excessively emotional age, where reason is subordinate to how you feel.

So these philosophers underpin western christian thought rather than Islamic thought, I take it.

In Plato and Arostotle's time and culture women were generally far less educated, no? I can't help thinking that that might have a great deal to do with it.

@ReleaseTheDucksOfWar But he said that men are too emotional with their egos. Doesn't the word "egos" put a different slant on it. He's not saying that men are generally too emotional. I take it to mean that women temper men's enormous egos, which isn't far from the truth.

I see what you mean. Nothing more dangerous than an unpleasant man's sense of wounded ego, for sure.

Oh, I don’t know… Watch any crowd at a football match if you want to see emotional men. They express it differently, often, but I think men are just as emotional as women.
Male violence is an expression of (an) emotion (anger/hatred).
I think a lot of the ‘women are emotional’ came from men not understanding women’s anatomy and linking the womb with emotions. The ‘wandering womb’ was said to be a cause for hysteria.

True for Greece, in Ancient Rome, elite Roman women were educated. And there are some famous examples of strong Stoic women and other heroines.
Around 1000 AD the Islamic world did translate Aristotle and Plato into Arabic but the civilizational setting was different; there was no emerging Greek democracy nor concepts of a Republic like Rome. Rather Islamic Sharia law governed.