I often hear people say that men are shamed for showing emotion (this is correct and I’m not denying it), whilst it’s considered acceptable or even positive for women to show emotion. This idea that women are expected to show emotion, or are praised for doing so, or gain any social capital that men don’t from expressing emotion is completely untrue.
Women’s emotions are utterly mocked, demeaned, disregarded and ultimately used to silence and dismiss us. People claim that women’s emotions make us irrational, inferior, and less capable of responsibility. Women are denied positions of power, due to the belief that their ‘emotions’ will get in the way. Women were subjected to medical abuse with diagnoses like ‘hysteria’ for displaying emotion. Our emotion is mocked, pathologized, and ultimately used to demean and oppress us.
‘Being allowed to show emotion’ is not a ‘privilege’ that women have over men.
Tag: yeah…
me: I feel such…crankiness inside…the desire to whine is…unstoppable… I feel myself growing…spiteful and sarcastic … what is this disease? This disord—
brain: you’re hungry you simple bitch
I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking about that post that was like “that eight year old is crying over something you think is silly because they haven’t lived very long and haven’t experienced everything you have and that thing is literally the worst thing that has ever happened to them in their life yet”
and how honestly we should be applying that compassion to everyone, even if they’re grown adults.
This goes the other way, too. Sometimes something you take for granted, something as simple as “sleeping in a bed,” can feel like the best thing that’s happened to someone in a decade.
Just. Let people be overwhelmed. Let people feel their feelings. You’re not doing any good in the world by belittling or devaluing that experience.
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