Men are largely taught by society negative emotions like sadness, frustration, hurt, etc. are unacceptable to display - except via anger. Anger can act as a mask or a wall between you and your truer, deeper emotions, sometimes at least. Also, anger is absolutely an emotion, I haven’t heard that disputed, but it doesn’t equal flying into a fit of rage and screaming/throwing shit.
Somehow as an American society we have labeled anger as “not an emotion”. This has not been to our benefit.
Men are largely taught by society negative emotions like sadness, frustration, hurt, etc. are unacceptable to display - except via anger. Anger can act as a mask or a wall between you and your truer, deeper emotions, sometimes at least. Also, anger is absolutely an emotion, I haven’t heard that disputed, but it doesn’t equal flying into a fit of rage and screaming/throwing shit.
Yes, it’s strange to me how “emotional” came to mean essentially all the “feminine” ways of losing one’s composure but not the “masculine” ones.
Explained hilariously by Bill Burr.
https://youtube.com/shorts/7Ud-El-e3xs