Emotional
Evolution
“ Get over it .” “ Man up .” “ Nobody wants to hear about your feelings .”
We ’ re all too familiar with notions like these . But repressing your feelings doesn ’ t do any good and can be quite damaging — to men and those around them . Despite social myth , cultural expectations and harmful stigma , men aren ’ t emotionless . They feel just as deeply and intensely as women , but the expression of their emotions can be less expected or , frankly , less accepted and validated . These kinds of dismissals of emotion have created negative , persistent stereotypes of men as stoic , unfeeling monoliths .