[watwut]

Are men expected to do so? Male anger is more tolerated then female anger. Also, if you look at men who are popular or get far, they are super emotional - Trump, Musk, Tate heck even Vance and Hengensberg.

Emotions driven males are cultural and political leaders literally now.

[bdangubic]

this is the general insanity of today’s world, today’s leaders would be laughed at as weakest of the weak in vast majority of human history, just absolute weakest men imaginable are “leaders” now…

[lazide]

There is a saying in wealth management - ‘the first generation builds it, the second generation preserves it, the third generation smokes it’.

It’s hard to not see that playing out in a large sense society wise right now, if we assume the first generation was the post WW2 folks, and the wealth was the post-WW2 economic benefits from the US not being bombed into the Stone Age like most of the rest of the world - and if anything, being the only major economy still standing.

Where exactly you draw the lines generationally is of course up for debate. But we’re starting to have to relearn a lot of hard lessons now that the post WW2 (and depression) generations understood as basic table stakes.

And it’s not because people today are ‘weaker’ per-se. Rather, they’ve lived a (relatively) comfortable life. That generally leads to not having to learn the hard lessons (or being so miserable) that they do the hard things required to build that society. And there is no free lunch. And it was never ideal, then, or now, and will never be ideal in the future either.

But it can be better if we put in the work and take the risk.

[triceratops]

> Male anger is more tolerated then female anger

That's only one emotion. What about all the rest?

[watwut]

In the context of "males are expected to show emotional resilience and self-control first" this is absolutely the primary thing that matters.

[lazide]

Only if not directed where society wants.

Fighting a war? Absolutely. Defending your family? Absolutely. Getting in an argument with your spouse? Not at all.

[nephihaha]

Anger like any other emotion has its place. But it is better to channel it into something productive.

Trump and Musk are men who were born into wealth, and were boosted by mass media for decades, so I don't think they really count. Musk's main tactic has been to take credit for others' R&D.