This four and a half minute video highlights the damaging impact of the American culture of male emotional toughness, which bullies our young sons into hiding their emotional expression.
There is a direct through line from the emotional suppression of boys to the epidemic of loneliness faced by 44 million middle aged adults. It contributes to depression, addiction, divorce, violence and early mortality, hurting boys and girls, men and women, equally.
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Shame hardening (as Pollack calls it) and emotional distancing by parents and others, causes immense traumatic harm to boys, harm that leads to a raft of physical and emotional health problems as those boys grow to be men.