I don’t usually talk about my feelings (I am a woman) but people of all genders seem to feel comfortable confiding in me.
So maybe it’s not so much that men don’t express emotions, more that people in general don’t express them to men?
Or even more likely we are all different and it’s not so much a gender thing. As a stereotype I’ve heard it plenty but in practice it hasn’t seemed so. If I was being sexist I’d say men complain more about physical pain and women complain more openly about unhappiness, but I can’t say it’s a big difference IME.
I don’t usually talk about my feelings (I am a woman) but people of all genders seem to feel comfortable confiding in me.
So maybe it’s not so much that men don’t express emotions, more that people in general don’t express them to men?
Or even more likely we are all different and it’s not so much a gender thing. As a stereotype I’ve heard it plenty but in practice it hasn’t seemed so. If I was being sexist I’d say men complain more about physical pain and women complain more openly about unhappiness, but I can’t say it’s a big difference IME.