The Boston Globe, March 3rd, 2003
IN RECENT DECADES, STOICISM AND EMOTIONAL RESERVE, ONCE CONSIDERED VIRTUES, HAVE COME TO BE VIEWED AS HOPELESSLY OUTDATED AND UNHEALTHY. Many schools nowadays have programs and exercises to teach children how to express their feelings; in reading materials, students are often asked to ponder how the story they have just read made them feel. In professional psychotherapy and pop self-help literature alike, failure to express and explore one's feelings is the deadliest of all sins. Men in particular have been both castigated and pitied for their inability to "open up" and for not being in touch ...
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