Men are in crisis<\/a>. We\u2019re responsible for over 80% of all violent crimes. Causing mass shootings and sexual assault. Committing suicide at a rate of 3-4x more than women. Lagging behind in education.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s clear there’s a problem with our men right now. But what is CAUSING them to act this way?<\/p>\n
I believe our culture\u2019s emotional repression of men is one of the biggest factors.<\/p>\n
When you shut down a person\u2019s ability to feel, when they\u2019re taught to repress and stuff down the pain bubbling up within them, that pain is gonna come out one way or another and explode onto everyone else around them.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s time we took a closer look at our culture\u2019s part in contributing to this powder keg.<\/p>\n
For all of our sakes.<\/p>\n
And documentaries like \u2018The Work\u2019 are gonna be instrumental in getting this conversation started.<\/p>\n
I STRONGLY recommend this film to everyone. But especially to men.<\/p>\n
Want to see what real men look like?<\/p>\n
Men who truly understand the cost of these emotional shackles, and are committed to doing whatever it takes to be free from them.<\/p>\n
Men diving deep into their pain, encouraging one another to feel, and treating each other with fierce compassion.<\/p>\n
Men who understand that feeling and crying aren\u2019t signs of weakness OR strength, they\u2019re our BIRTHRIGHT – as connected, compassionate human beings.<\/p>\n
These incarcerated men are doing the work.<\/p>\n
Are the rest of us ready to do ours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the past 2 years, I\u2019ve been trying to learn how to cry. But it hasn\u2019t been easy.<\/p>\n
As a boy, social conditioning taught me that crying and showing emotion was weakness. I was made fun of. Called a sissy. So pretty quickly, I learned how to numb and shut down those parts of myself.<\/p>\n
Now as a 32-year-old man, I\u2019ve seen the costs of having those protective barriers up. The ceiling it\u2019s put on my emotional range. How it\u2019s limited me in my relationships. How it\u2019s left me feeling numb, empty, and confused.<\/p>\n
Kept me out of my heart and in my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[14,30],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jaeminyi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/The-Work-Movie.jpg?fit=1000%2C557&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79mZF-DV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}