Only women do this, you’re a man, you are not supposed to feel this way…as if, feeling a certain way, is a bad thing, decided by a certain people, because they’re actively trying to hold back their own feelings and have succeeded in being a heartless stump in the middle of nowhere.
Yes, women do seem more emotional, but is that really because they’re the weaker gender?
Or is it, because they understand and handle this part of our existence called emotions, better?
Action movies, horror movies, comedy movies, etc and etc, all seem to carry one similar element, which is, to avoid being confronted by feelings of any kind, as all these genres seem to distract us from feelings, but only romance ends up making the one port where you can’t turn your head away, you can’t run, you can’t yell, you can’t fight it or beat it, and women, they just accept this.
Is being at peace with your feelings, your emotions, really something we should consider being weak?
Man has defeated countless conflicts throughout the ages, then why is it so hard for us to defeat our own selfish desire to not show our true emotions?
Love stories are often consumed most, by a specific gender, when these stories are supposed to be genderless, as they provide a window into a warm world which lets you get away from your real troubles.
Then why are only women consuming it, when it’s available for every soul on earth?
They’re cringe, they’re sobbing, wailing crap, is what we tell ourselves, but what I believe we’re doing, is, to make up reasons to keep escaping this genre, so we can keep our true selves locked up, and follow the same mold of tough, alpha male.
And look where it has gotten us.
Wars around the world, causing reasons to go to wars, turning our heads away from any kind of peace, being the tool of destruction, why?
Why not follow women, let our egos be drowned in the fields where women are better?
Why keep charging at gym, or at working long hours, when the same things can be done, with a peace of mind, if only, we can change a few of our ways, and ask the one with knowledge, for help?
Is masculinity really about avoiding a problem we carry inside willingly, all cause of an ego that makes us see the other gender with their own set of qualities as someone inferior?
No, this genre is not boring, if it was, why the other half who we find eligible to be our life partner, who we know to be closer to us than the whole world, find this same genre, great?
I have come to believe that, romance is a genre that we make the most fun of, because it’s the thing we’re most afraid of, and it takes bravery to tear through your shell, to give a genre loved by half of the world a chance, instead of mocking those who loves it.
