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The Calipers's avatar

> We’ve all seen the self-righteousness, catastrophizing, my-way-or-the-highway attitudes, and emotional outbursts that shut down discussion and suck the oxygen out of the room. That’s toxic femininity.

This line reminded me of Kamala’s appearance on “Call Her Daddy” and how it was strikingly less informative than Trump’s appearance on Joe Rogan. So much of the communication was subtextual and about managing the emotions of the participants. The baseline assumption of CHD is that listeners are scared and traumatized and need to be affirmed rather than challenged.

We ran the test of setting national policy according to these assumptions and the results don’t seem to affirm the idea that constantly talking about “mental health” makes it better.

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Miles Madron's avatar

What an interesting perspective and a thought-provoking read. On emotions and men feeling silenced, I'd say emotions are synonymous with feelings and that men are just as emotional as women nor do they lack the spaces to express those emotions. They do, however, express those emotions often from a place of anonymity, which tends to result in more baser instincts coming to the fore. The web and social media is full of men venting their emotions in vulgar and violent terms aimed at women. The mainstream media, on the other hand is seen by many men as the space were all men are made into monsters.

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