Compartmentalization and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps are perhaps two of the dumbest, most non-sensical, hyper-masculine constructs that are mere bandaids to much larger underlying issues. Some men may be able to coast through life with a bandaid, changing it after days or weeks of wear and tear.
Compartmentalization and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps are perhaps two of the dumbest, most non-sensical, hyper-masculine constructs that are mere bandaids to much larger underlying issues. Some men may be able to coast through life with a bandaid, changing it after days or weeks of wear and tear.
I can’t do that, and I think men must be allowed to air emotions with the same intensity and frequency that would be expected from a normal human under duress. Thank you for addressing this topic; I hope more men (and women) will be inspired by its wisdom. Read and write on!
I don't know how you do it, Gilbert. You managed to inspire, inform, encourage and make me laugh all in one comment. Pure genius and hysterical, my friend. I especially liked "non-sensical, hypermasculine" and "air emotions with the same intensity and frequency that would be expected from a normal human under duress." I agree with all you wrote.
Compartmentalization and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps are perhaps two of the dumbest, most non-sensical, hyper-masculine constructs that are mere bandaids to much larger underlying issues. Some men may be able to coast through life with a bandaid, changing it after days or weeks of wear and tear.
I can’t do that, and I think men must be allowed to air emotions with the same intensity and frequency that would be expected from a normal human under duress. Thank you for addressing this topic; I hope more men (and women) will be inspired by its wisdom. Read and write on!
I don't know how you do it, Gilbert. You managed to inspire, inform, encourage and make me laugh all in one comment. Pure genius and hysterical, my friend. I especially liked "non-sensical, hypermasculine" and "air emotions with the same intensity and frequency that would be expected from a normal human under duress." I agree with all you wrote.