Why are fundamentals of good mental health and pro-social behaviors as identified by experts only good for women? That's about the weirdest thing I've heard anybody say in a while. Aside from the very well-documented fact that women are socialized from birth to be fluent in their emotions and men are socialized away from that and that the vast majority of men are not good at all with understanding or working with their emotions (and are consequently run by them from behind the scenes in just the way you are currently demonstrating) - that still isn't what I said initially. Passing along information that has been deemed useful, pro-social, and good for mental health by experts in relevant fields is not women determining those things - duh! It's also not any sort of 'splaining to bring that stuff up. I already told what consitituties mansplaining and how and why that is very different.
I said that men and women are socialized in different ways and that they do not have "core" inherent differences as the author asserted. Are you really not able to parse out the difference between those two?
I honestly don't have any more time to waste on this or to educate you on this topic beyond these links.
"Thirteen years in the making, they draw on more than 40 years of research showing that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly.
The main thrust of the subsequent research is that traditional masculinity—marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression—is, on the whole, harmful. Men socialized in this way are less likely to engage in healthy behaviors."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2372732220984491
"American men are socialized to be tough/unemotional, which has harmful effects on society. Restricting men’s provision/reception of emotional support reinforces gender stereotypes. We offer empirically based recommendations for fostering emotional flexibility in boys and men."
“In Western culture, boys and men are expected to be competitive, tough and dominant,” Sasser said. “The term, traditional masculinity, labels these expectations. Meaning, boys and men need to be stoic and suppress emotions they experience, other than anger.”
Recent research shows that these beliefs associated with traditional masculinity often lead to harmful behaviors toward themselves and others.
Statistically, suicide and violent crimes disproportionately affect men. They are four times more likely to die of suicide than women, commit nearly 90% of violent crimes in the United States and represent 77% of homicide victims.
They are also overrepresented in a variety of psychological and social problems, including among schoolchildren with learning difficulties and behavior problems.
