Male Emotionality

It does not follow from being male that someone has no emotions or only experiences emotions relating to sexuality or aggression.  Men are capable of experiencing a much wider spectrum of layered, intense, and deeply personal emotions than just any one or two kinds of feelings, and no one has to be a man to realize this because it is a logical truth, accessible to everyone who understands what gender and emotions are.  A woman might harbor limited, shallow emotions, not that this means she has a shallow intellect or moral character, or she might have much more serpentine, deep emotions than this; either is logically possible.  The same is true of a man.  The emotions a person feels are an individualistic matter that can be influenced by cultural pressures, though if more people at last stopped caring about social norms, it would be far easier for them to break the hold of this conditioning over them.

On a broad cultural level, even now, many men and women alike (in America) pressure men specifically to hide, ignore, trivialize, or misunderstand their capacity for emotion.  In select circumstances or if it is a very specific type of emotion, namely the two aforementioned ones, expressing feelings is arbitrarily "permitted" for men.  A true rationalistic egalitarian is capable of knowing that not only is this gravely irrational and damaging, but it is linked with more severe sexism against men such as the lenience towards violence against men and the neglect of men as full people, which is in turn accompanied in some way by sexism against women as well, for the two are to some extent inseparably intertwined.  Men deserve to understand, experience, and cherish their capacity for emotion just as much as women.  Why are these such unpopular truths?

Other than people who randomly believe in this on the basis of sheer personal assumptions, an invalid basis for believing in anything whatsoever, there are only two kinds of people who would believe or at least encourage these stereotypes about male emotionality being limited, immature, or unimportant.  They either believe or support one or all of these things because their society is vocal about embracing this error, or they believe or endorse it because they think that regardless of its truth, it makes it culturally inviting to prioritize women over men.  The first literally just believes or at least feigns support because they are too irrationalistic to think that truth is higher than or could deviate from societal ideologies.  The second thinks that liberating men from sexism excludes doing the same for women, and is thus still a deluded fool who does not look to reason and, if they are men, direct introspective experience (which can still only be grasped thanks to reason).  An irrationalistic society typically changes for the better slowly, if at all, so the prominence of this sexist worldview is not something that is likely to fully disappear except over time.

It is also an important truth that the denial or dismissal of men's emotions is not the most foundational or predominant form of sexism against men, as some people like to pretend, nor is it the thing from which all other kinds of sexist social pressures for men stem from.  People being too stupid to realize that men have or can have much more extensive, complex, precise emotions besides sexual feelings and anger/hatred is objectively not as damaging or irrational as people believing that men cannot be raped (especially by women), that they are expendable, and so on, though the idea is still untrue by default and a highly degrading, hurtful one.  Male emotionality is not nonexistent or extremely limited because someone believes or hopes it is, and as more people, men and women, stop pretending otherwise, all of society will reap the benefits of avoiding assumptions and welcoming the truth.