Social science researchers understand self-reporting bias and have strategies for mitigating it. They don't publish stuff that they have no real way to verify.
I'm quite sure there is a ton of room for improvement in continuing to dismantle internalized patriarchy in us all, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't still pursue it. If women are being advised to do things even though they are hard, men can and should do the same - particularly since it's well documented that them NOT doing that is hard on their mental and emotional health.
‘But the downside is that those men, in times of emotional difficulty, haven’t got the ability or even the words to think through their emotional problems.’Dr. Antoniadis believes men’s efforts to conform to such cultural ideals often leads to an inability to even recognise their feelings in the first place.‘In order to not show your emotions, it’s more effective if you can deny them, even to yourself,’ he said. ‘As a result, you get men who can’t speak or think about their emotions — instead, they feel unwell or that something is not right.‘If you try to tease out the problem, they can’t put their finger on it; often they’ll point to symptoms, which might be drinking or acting out violently or something like that, but they can’t say what underlies those sorts of acting out.’
