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An analysis of men's talk about emotions
Men constructed themselves as emotional beings, but only within specific circumstance like rule-governed contexts, and cited death, a football match and a nightclub scenario as prototypical contexts for the permissible or understandable expression of grief, joy and anger, respectively.They show their emotion in masculine ways. http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=40&sid=3b5c1dfc-3772-4184-9a03-778153461cf0@sessionmgr114&hid=101&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU=#db=aph&AN=14849221 -
Men and relationship
The tenet of the traditional masculine ideology lays emphasis on emotional stoicism. They think communicating the idea that expresses emotion equals emotional weakness. It prevents men from expressing sadness, anxious, fear and pain. www.montana.edu/wwwcc/docs/exponentmennrel.html -
Why men don't talk about their emotions
Men avoid to express their feelings so they won't feel ignorant, embarrassed or vulnerable. Culturally, we teach girls how to express their feelings like fear, sadness and anxious, but we always tell a boy to "man up". Men have not learned how to constructively express negative emotions in ways that don’t leave them feel vulnerable or open to criticism. So they may cover up their weak feelings through anger or violence.
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The Psychological Drain of the Gender-Role Harassment of Men.
If men don't behave proporly, others will judge them and call them a girl, which will hurt men's self-esteem. To pretect themselves, men stop showing their feelings.
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Boys' suicide
Boys are afraid of showing vulnerable part of them, so they keep silence. But the stress accumulate causes suicide.
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Young Men's grief and masculine identities
Socially constructed ideals dictate that men should be stoic in aftermath of loss. Men balance their grief with masculine identity. So when they have tragic loss, they will express their sadness and despair as anger.
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