SpankyMcFly
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Break free of the "norm" and be who you are, it's very liberating! We are meant to feel, or we wouldn't have the capability.
Article: Researchers Say We Stamp Out A Boy's Natural Emotional Expressiveness - Hartford Courant
A couple excerpts from the above article written ages ago on this topic:
"Because of what seem to be biologically based differences, boys start out life more emotionally expressive than girls," writes psychologist Ronald F. Levant of Harvard Medical School. Research finds that infant boys are 'more emotionally reactive and expressive' than infant girls, and remain so at least until they are 6 months old -- they show more joy, more anger, fussiness and crying, make more gestural signals and 'positive vocalizations' to their mothers, Levant writes in an article in the journal Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.
Who is this Ronald F. Levant? About Dr. Ronald F. Levant --- Ronald F. Levant Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He is also a former president of the American Psychological Association (APA) Ronald F. Levant: 2005 APA President
normative male alexithymia - emotional numbness, an inability to put feelings into words. Vulnerable emotions are experienced as anger, often expressed as aggression.
We, society, condition men this way and if you don't personally do it, society picks up your "slack" for you. Breaking free of the norm is no small feat and even when you manage to, the pressure to realign with societal expectation is constant.
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