Journaling for Dudes (and Everyone)
Over the course of like a million years, men have been conditioned to suppress emotion. Whatever the reason, now we see men who express and communicate emotion in a healthy way as effeminate or less-manly. Broadly speaking, it’s taboo to show that you’re sad or happy in any other context than sports, death (someone else’s), marriage (your own), or the birth of a child (either way).