Re:Why Men Are Hard to Help
by Buttons840 on Saturday October 01, 2022 @03:59PM
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A social hacker! You never had to initiate the hard conversation. Just indulge your feelings a bit, it's even a little therapeutic, and then the burden for ending things is on her.
Re:Why Men Are Hard to Help
by at_a_remove on Saturday October 01, 2022 @11:37PM
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If you want a moment of nastiness, during the Breakup Speech, you whirl around and say, "It's really because I cried over X, isn't it?" and there's this uncomfortable squirm and outright denial, because they will never admit it.
>Anything else and you may as well be wearing a dress.
I've always found it strange how women wearing men clothes is normal and just a style choice, while men wearing women's clothes is perverse and emasculating. Even many of the pro equality people feel this way
Re:Why Men Are Hard to Help
by oceanplexian on Sunday October 02, 2022 @03:57AM
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I’m not saying it’s fair, but it’s pretty obvious why this is the case.
A 200lb man, who has the physical ability kill someone with their bare hands crying over an emotional vulnerability is scary. The issue isn’t “men aren’t allowed to have feelings”, but men are expected to have self-control over how they express themselves.
You're allowed to cry when your mother dies or your dog dies. Anything else and you may as well be wearing a dress. The constant encouragement to be vulnerable and express feelings is merely a test to make sure you're still "masculine enough."