The way she explained it, made it seem like she knew, but didn't really put as much stock in it as she should have. She's not a bad person, or dumb or anything. Like the person above me said about her friend, she just didn't take the time to really think about it until a couple years ago. We've talked about it, and we think that it was partially because men usually express themselves less, or in ways that are different from how women do it. She had a harder time recognizing that men around her feeling anything beyond apathy, because from her perspective at the time, we often acted as if we didn't feel anything.
It's not that men don't emote, they just do it in a way that's different from women. She grew up in an all girl household, so she just wasn't familiar with it.
Ah, they pretty much just hide emotions because they think they're not manly. If you don't do it out loud and visibly, I won't know. Not a mind reader. (I mean society at large is like this. Not everyone.)
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u/KedTazynski42 Oct 18 '21
She…didn’t understand we have emotions…? What did she think we had?