Men Are Actually The More Sensitive Sex, Not Women | By Seth Blais

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Men Are Actually the More Sensitive Sex, Not Women

We just don’t admit it and I have proof

Seth BlaisSeth Blais4 min readMar 29, 2020

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His blonde hair was saturated red with blood like he had painted it in hair dye and neglected to wash the paste out. A pair of deep cuts on his hairline exposed what looked like his skull, and his face was obscured by the blood still flowing from his injuries. But I’ll get back to that in a minute.

Stop acting like such a girl.

This statement and many variations of it were recited daily growing up as a boy. We’re taught that it’s only acceptable for women to show emotions like pain and sadness. Being emotionally vulnerable quickly earns you the label of acting like a girl.

The idea that it’s not acceptable to admit when you’re in pain or talk about your emotions is cemented into the mind of boys by the time they reach manhood. As men, we continue the behavior of suppressing our painful emotions or by using secondary emotions like anger as a smokescreen.

One of my early memories as a child involves my older brother coming home during the early morning hours, drunk and saturated in his own blood. While out drinking he had been brutally assaulted with hands, feet, bottles and had even suffered dog bites at the direction of the owner.

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