What Does Emotion Do?

From the time that we're small we are, we have what's known as an avidity for paternicity. This is a perfect reason why you never want to use 25 dollar words like 'emotion' But emotion isn't some floating thing that's going to cloud your judgment. It literally lets you know what is important to and what isn't. And we're terrified of emotion in a very gendered way. We've all been told, oh, they're so emotional, meaning showing emotion. If you couldn't feel emotion, you couldn't make a single rational decision. Most of our decisions are made by our cognitive unconscious - its way of letting us know what we should