This is a comment by ogwriter on the post “What Happens When Our Emotions Stay in Our Bodies“.
ogwriter said:
You bring up a great issue Kate. I would like to expand the reach of the discussion and get your opinion. If It true about the impact of negative emotions on humans when they are forced to withhold their feelings or are prevented from expressing them, then, what should we expect-behaviorally- of people who have been subjected to horrific dehumanization? If we recognize that this kind of thing has impact in this gender context, it most assuredly has negative consequences in other human interactions.
My problem is there seems to be a failure to connect the dots among humans who suffer from similar abuses. In other words, if we can realize that it wrong for little boy’s to be emotionally constipated by society, can we not see it is wrong in other contexts as well? I won’t mention them, but they are obvious. Humans emotionally repressing scores of “other” humans is nothing new in human culture.
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