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!
You cannot validate your masculinity by destroying yourself, hurting others, and perpetuating systems of oppression. That is a lie told to you by another sucker who also bought into the scam!
Instead, try destroying capitalism, hurting fascists, and perpetuating socialism.
It’s your old friend Baked Potato Johnson here with another truth potato fact!
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.
"Rationalism" is often a reaction to valid righteous anger.
"What's that about being passed over for your dream job because your name sounds too black? You're clearly feeling too many emotiorinos right now bud so I'm going to need you to take a break and come back when you're less hysterical." Finish it all off with some concern trolling about how your message sounds, to others of course, and how your message would be stronger if this or that. There's a good response to this line that I hear from vegans sometimes "Why don't you tell me the better message you have for me, then I'll tell it back to you and you will be vegan right?"The recent popularity of chudified stoicism is basically the same thing.
