>>114785053I want to first say that I agree with your sentiment and most of your points, except for this:
>Hundreds of years ago men crying...was lauded and celebratedWould like to see evidence of this. I'm thinking back to the Classical period, where there'd be images of stoic men on pottery with women (professional mourners, maybe) crying and tearing their hair out, and in medieval times when men showing emotion was delegated to monks having a spiritual experience, or really, any sort of really intense emotional experience. Brotherly love and compassion is of course celebrated in the Classical period, and extends to the medieval in the form of honor among knights, but I believe that men have always been expected to be emotionally "held together" while women have always been depicted as the emotional ones.
It's another one of those things that hurts both sexes; men are not expected to show emotion (except at the most extraordinary of times, for emphasis), and women are expected to be overly emotional.
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