Men and Their Feelings
To all the men I say, Go ahead and tell me what you’re feeling. And as you’d expect, I get a lot of blank stares. Some of them might also be panicked, while a few wiseacres will make a joke, so well-aware a laughing man is rarely throwing punches. I know, I know. It’s a dirty trick to ask a man his feelings. The spectacle of a helpless, befuddled man is pathetic and makes his mother cry, as she can only see her little boy. When I do sit with other men, in the naked vulnerability of our feelings, I can see how easily I turn all of my emotions into anger. Am I sad? Nope, it’s just anger. Am I afraid? Nope again, just angry. I once heard a woman describe how upsetting it is for her to see a grown man cry. I only wish she knew, how badly men needed to do so.
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