Notes
A man is human. Emotion is human. Compassion is human. Empathy is human. Love is human. A need for love is human. Attention is human. Expression is human. But we reject, we avoid and we fear them. A fear stemming from shame, of how we could be perceived. A fear disguised as a sign of strength that we attribute to masculinity. It is the responsibility of a man to understand emotional intelligence. It is the responsibility of a man to understand why feeling and expressing are not synonymous to weakness, to understand why It is far from it. Doing so does not remove your role, your duty as a protector/provider, it strengthens it. What we fail to realize is, from an objective point of view, a man who is crippled by internal turmoil is less effective as a contributor of society. Suppression is a not pride, It’s a burden. It creates stress and It destroys. As a result, a man becomes fragile. He is triggered very easily. He uses verbal abuse or physical violence to express, at the expense of our daughters and also, our sons. It contradicts the notion that masculinity is protection safety.
We say we are not allowed to feel and express. We blame society, we ask for change but we tend to conveniently forget that we are society. This series is a long term exploration of the fear and shame of processing stress, anger and sadness. It's to understand how to release and not keep…