Witches VS Patriarchy

I am forever baffled at the abysmal lack of self-awareness it takes to be one of those guys who scream redfacedly about how non-emotional they are.

As s a man, I can absolutely say that men are hugely emotional.

Sadly we are mainly taught to bottle the emotions up and never show anything vulnerable.

The whole crap about never crying it insane, especially making it about manliness is fucking dumb.

Crying is amazing, it is...

• ...a pressure relief for excess emotional energy.
• ...a fantastic way to gather strength, just let the tears roll and you can power through huge problems

Back in 2022 I got double flat feet, double heel spurs and a bad knee, all at the same time.

Every step I took was agony, I cried from the pain the entire way walking home from busstop while blasting power metal in my headphones.

I dealt with this for eight months or so before I got better, I ate hundreds of paracetamol pills during that time to deal with the pain.

Crying was one of the best tools to deal with the pain when the painkillers didn't work.

Crying also helps with dealing with emotional episodes, it clears your mind and once done you are better equipped with the other crap is going on.

TL;DR:

Men are just as emotional as women, we have just trained ourselves to be way worse at dealing with our emotions than women are.

I've seen this same strategy used in conservative circles, discrediting the left for being "too emotional", even though they're showing the same degree of rage as the average Alex Jones episode. The hypocrisy is unreal.

It's both, especially as we see in the US right now where they are floating the idea of going back to single household voting, with their words being the man would consult with his household prior to casting his vote.

But we also have to recognize that statistically women and men differ, and Estrogen vs Testosterone levels in either gender alter your reaction to events.

And its not all negative, women often have far more empathy for people then men do. And if you have read any account of women on testosterone it changes their personality where they become aggressive and feel a dull sense of rage all day.

We see the same differences in genders in a clinical diagnoses of BPD which has an emotional dysregulation component. 75% are women, the rest men. And women often take the intense emotions out on themselves, while a man is more likely to become physically violent from the same triggering of emotion.

We need to put more effort into understanding the differences between people, and less base lining that all behaviours have to match a man who's dead inside.

A wise mind is when logic and emotions are considered, before deciding action.

Imagine living by this ideology while there’s an an emotionally unstable imbecile man baby in the White House

When reading some old (19th century for example) story about a woman becoming "hysterical", I had the impression that the context often involved her husband making stupid decisions and her being powerless to stop it because she had no rights.

Made up example story:
A fraudster comes to town and starts door to door selling his scam investment. A woman opens the door, listens to the spiel and tells him to go away. The fraudster asks loudly for "the man of the house", the woman tells him to go away again. The husband appears, the fraudster talks up his fragile masculinity and the dumb husband agrees that money is no business for a woman. At that point the woman knows that her gullible husband is going to do something very stupid that might bankrupt their family, but she is powerless to stop it, so at the same time she's angry, afraid, frustrated, desperate and pleading. And thus the fraudster tells the husband: "See, women are always hysterical for no reason and they should have no say in big decisions. Lets leave here and go over the contract in the bar."

Would this be considered gaslighting?