Anonymous sea_taco 11w

This isn’t to say the “WISE mind” is useless. In calmer moments, like resolving a personal disagreement or planning a life change, balancing emotion and logic can be helpful. But that response fails to see that men often can’t reliably afford to default to that approach due to the nature of the social roles we’ve overwhelmingly taken throughout the history of human development (i.e. protection, provision, etc.)

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Anonymous sea_taco 11w

They also say that men weren’t “taught how to feel their feelings,” which suggests a deficiency or a failure in upbringing. That’s not quite right. Men feel emotions as deeply as anyone else, but we’re often socialized to express them in ways that align with those logical demands. Anger might come out as assertiveness; sadness might be processed privately rather than publicly. This isn’t a lack of emotional awareness; it’s an adaptation.

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Anonymous sea_taco 11w

TLDR: Men are taught to feel feelings, we’re just taught to manage them differently. Largely in service of meeting our material needs and the material needs of those around us.

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Anonymous seeya_space_cowboy 11w

Yeah she has us all nailed.

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Anonymous seeya_space_cowboy 11w

We are fucked

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