We must encourage boys to express their feelings.
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This comment was by Sarah Murawski in reference to the post – Women are Saying “No” to Marriage and Men are Angry, Depressed and Lonely
The night before last, a man I recently dated message to me to tell me that he’s moving to another state. I think he was perhaps hoping I would be telling him not to go, he had told me before that he’d come back to me if other prospects didn’t work out (dafuq?) I wished him well and asked why he was moving. He said he accidently went on a first date with someone twice (dating websites) because they didn’t recognize each other and had to move on to a new dating pool, essentially.
I was very kind in saying this, but I told him that maybe it would be better to work on himself instead .. and that the problem might not go away with the move. He jokingly said he was perfect and didn’t need help. It’s unfortunate because he’s handsome, tall, cooked for me without ever needing me to cook for him (and oh my God it was amazing food). What a catch, right? Just the emotional part was lacking.
My hope for feminism is for small boys to be treated no differently than little girls in their encouragement of expressing feelings. That they grow to be well-rounded equals. I also think that to change this, marketing must stop selling women as products and instead see us for the complex demographic that we actually are.
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I will say it before and will say it again. Society doesn’t encourage nor support men and boys in developing and expressing their full range of emotions.