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Unmasking men hidden emotions

This exclusive article seeks to adequately discuss some social myths and prevalent misconceptions about men's emotions by both men and women. One of the cultural myths in the community is that men's emotions are taboo subjects to discuss, and this cuts across cultures, backgrounds, color, and religion.

From time immemorial, men have been best described as emotionless creatures, and this is because of the environment that male adolescents are socialized, and therefore this affects their ability to deal with feelings which have been systematically suppressed over some period. This practice has "toughened up" young men from a tender age to mask any expression of pain or frustration, and hence after leads to them to suffer in silence.

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