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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Standards of toxic masculinity are very often upheld by women as much as men. Growing up, one is told "Boys don't cry" by mothers as well as fathers, and then mothers wonder why their husbands are emotionally closed off.

Society is broken. Less broken than it used to be, maybe, but still broken.