Men especially do this because the patriarchy convinces men to destroy and/or repress all of their emotions except for rage!
“Rationality” without emotions and a sense of morality turns you into a dead-eyed monster! Learn to love yourself and speak about your feelings! Emotional communication heals!
The greatest revolutionaries have been those with compassion and love for the working class. Over intellectualizing everything is a poor coping response and very obvious to everyone around you!
Definitely something I struggle with. Took a long time of introspection + therapy to eventually learn that, no, I'm not less emotional than those around me, I'm just worse and expressing them, and therefore also worse at knowing what I'm feeling. Especially difficult for me to work through, considering I have other mental issues complicating the soup.
Edit: Not to mention, I do think rationality is good its just that a lot neoliberal brainrot emphasizes rationality over all other considerations. Not unlike masculinity being healthy, but our society greatly overemphasizes masculinity, to the point of also cause brainrot. But for, like, society. It makes it hard to push back against them, sometimes, both in society and within ourselves, since they aren't just flatly negative things.