Life & Wisdom Quote by Andrew Cohen

Cohen’s move here is to pry apart the supposedly “natural” traits we keep stapling to gender, then casually slip in a grenade: sometimes the stereotype flips. The opening clause, “In my experience,” matters. It’s a credibility play, but also a tactical softener. He’s not claiming a lab-grade truth; he’s claiming a lived pattern, which makes the argument harder to dismiss as ideology and easier to recognize as something you’ve seen at work, in families, in competition, in caretaking.

The construction is symmetrical and deliberate: men aren’t less sensitive, women aren’t less aggressive. That parallelism stages a kind of fairness, a refusal to simply reverse the hierarchy (men good, women good) and call it progress. Then he pivots: “as a matter of fact, often they are more so!” That exclamation point isn’t decoration; it signals impatience with polite hedging. He’s pushing against the cultural habit of treating female competitiveness as aberrant or unseemly, and male tenderness as suspect, as if empathy is a feminine accessory and ambition a masculine entitlement.

The subtext is less “everyone is the same” than “our categories are sloppy.” He’s arguing that gender traits are situational, incentivized, and socially rewarded or punished. Aggression can be trained, compassion can be suppressed, and both can be strategically performed. The intent reads like a corrective aimed at readers who think they’re being enlightened by repeating old binaries with softer language. Cohen’s point: the real surprise isn’t that stereotypes are inaccurate; it’s how routinely reality embarrasses them.