Women in pop culture, and in general, are caught in a strange double bind. If they display emotion, they are ‘too emotional’ and ‘playing to stereotype,’ because, yes, there is an existing stereotype, a very strong one, that women are prisoner to their emotions and cannot handle the realities of the world. Under this stereotype, …
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It’s Not the Emotions, It’s How You Act On Them
A thing I find myself saying more and more lately is this: ‘you can’t control your feelings, but you can decide what you do about them.’ It doesn’t strike me as a particularly revolutionary statement, but people are often surprised by it, and that reveals a lot about how people think about emotions, feelings, and …