I am very receptive to people’s feelings, men and women. I usually check in on people if they’re having a bad day, and always try to give my husband space to relax when he’s worked hard and done a lot. This evening, a post came up in my feed, of a man claiming a disadvantage being a man is that no one really cares about your feelings, because when his child died, most people fussed over his wife and didn’t really ask about him. When I asked my husband whether he agreed, he said yes. He explained to me that most people don’t really care what’s going on in men’s life, and men are just left to get on with things on their own; that women often get support for their emotions while men are ridiculed for moments of weakness. As a woman, and a person who has always been empathetic, I don’t recognise this depiction, and find the idea that people wouldn’t check in on a guy they knew was struggling kinda baffling. Is this really how it is? submitted by /u/pistachiohazelnoot
Originally posted by u/pistachiohazelnoot on r/AskMen
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