this is crucial; my most significant male bonding experiences would be unrecognizable to my female friends. male affection is inevitably Straussian, implicit in the gaps of the unuttered sympathies, conveyed through action, not words
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RT @IntractableLion
Men's emotionality has absolutely been short changed in modernity -- but expecting the healed version to look like women's emotionality is just as eliding
https://twitter.com/IntractableLion/status/1407119024400441344