Like men are able to get away with never expressing of requesting help with their feelings because women are trained from a very young age to observe men, watch for signs of emotional need and environmental stressors and deal with them without being asked. It’s why women worry constantly about emasculating the men in their lives but men never worry about “efeminating” the women in their lives.
Men are “stoic” only because they don’t have to communicate in order to get their emotional needs met.
I agree with the thesis, but would argue men are socially conditioned to behave stoically in the same way women are conditioned to nurture. The gender roles that patriarchy enforces certainly afford men much greater privilege, but make no mistake that while it may be gilded, it’s still a cage.
Never said it wasn’t.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 