Can a woman compartmentalize?

I am a woman. Yes, Yes I am. I love the diversity of all we can be. 

Often, it is said that it is a struggle for our gender to remain objective to a broad set of circumstance. Subjects tend to "bleed" over into one another; conversations move rapidly from topic to topic and emotionally we are all or something, rarely nothing.  As a result, it is said that we lack the innate ability to compartmentalize.

Often compartmentalization is used in reference to a man, to emotions, and to sex. And the common acceptance is that a woman is very poor at it. (Compartmentalizing, not sex)

I must fervently disagree with the cultural acceptance of this issue.  FERVENTLY.

A woman compartmentalizes hundreds of times a day in hundreds of ways. It co-insides with our uncanny ability to multitask.

 Ask any woman what her grocery list consists of and I bet she can rattle off twenty things without a breath. Ask how many pairs of shoes she has and where she purchased them, what is on her Honey-do list or when the next three projects at work are due. Most women, I imagine, can tell you exactly what outfits she wore for the last FOUR weeks to work and describe her Saturday duds, as well. We do this in our subconscious... it is the way we keep our fashion identity. We remember what year we totaled the car, how much we received from insurance and what shots are needed for our Dominican vacation, which by the way, we still have not received our passports so I'll need to call Monday on my way to purchase a small-weave bug net for over our bed, the mosquitoes travel in swarms there, you know.


 We have so many separate list organized and stashed in our brain that we can run our world with our memory alone.

We do not choose to keep our emotions separate from our lists. What is the point? We are raw. And seductively transparent, beautifully outperforming with our emotions at the forefront. We find no reason to keep our emotions in a tidy box. We can still maintain all of our successful functions while processing in our soul realm.

Society acts like emotion is a woman's weakness. I scoff. It is evidence of our strength.
 
I don't want to be remiss and neglect to make the male compartmentalization comparison. If a man carried in their fore brain half of what a woman does, I do, respectfully (of course) believe that they would implode.  A perforated grid that allowed emotions to freely flow would crumble the walls of their carefully structured compartments. In modern society men typically take the compartmentalizing gold... I need to boldly state that they can ONLY compartmentalize emotions. Sex. Work. Home. But add the detail level....  yeah...not able to that so well.

The ability to flow in both the abstract and concrete realm is most assuredly a female trait... and a darn good one.

So in answer to the question, "can a woman compartmentalize?"  I answer a resounding "YES!"
And in a quieter voice, "WE are best at it!"

Next time you feel like you just can't handle everything and are feeling the PRESSURE to do it all. Just remember... you already are doing it all.... plus some.




 (no, I'm not going to the DR, in case you were wondering)