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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
Yes, there is an enormous lack of intimacy and ability to seek help for emotional issues among men, but this video attacking the notion of "male privilege" (and, more subtly, the idea of a "patriarchy") as an oppressive force that benefits men. In a way your comment agrees with the video, since society beating out the ability of men to talk about and deal with their emotional problems is not a privilege.
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I don't think it's 100% down to society though.
Males do less emotional bonding than females on AVERAGE everywhere in the world, not just Western society. Even in completely different societies it's the same. You can even find writings from hundreds of years ago where people observe the fact that males tend to be less emotionally intelligent than females. Even in such a wide range of human societies that exist, or have existed in the past, the results seem to be the same.
I think the theory of feminists that every difference in behaviour between males and females is due to people being influenced by TV shows, etc. as children to behave a certain way is frankly ridiculous.
What they've done is noticed that you can change people's opinions through the media (e.g. get more people to support gay marriage by having positively portrayed gay characters in TV shows), and then made a GIANT leap to the assumption that every opinion a human holds and every behaviour that you find in a demographic is 100% influenced by the environment and that none of it has a biological basis at all.
I personally think this particular difference between males and females is largely biological, and whilst we might be able to change it slightly by having sensitive and emotional "alpha" males in TV shows (if that's even possible), and by giving boys in schools talks telling them it's OK to be sensitive and share their emotions, the gap between the sexes will never close completely.
I think feminists will either still be fighting to get men to be more emotional in 100+ years time, or they'll have to give up and accept it's partly a biological trait of men to not share their emotions with others as much as females.