People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
RULES:
Some people say that real men don't have feelings
We have feelings (we have feelings)
Some people say that we are not real men
(We're real men)
That hurts our feelings
(Hurts our feelings when you say we're not real men)
Some people say that real men are invincible
(We're vincible) we're vincible
I've thought about this a fair bit, and I can definitely recall a bunch of cases from primary school and high school when I opened up about my feelings and personal stuff; and it ended badly for me. It ended badly every time, and I reckon that's why I basically don't tell anyone anything about myself now as an adult. I don't even share most stuff with my partner, or my family - such are the scars of past experience.
I'm sure this is similar for many people.
It certainly is for me. I still have difficulty whenever someone tries to compliment me on anything as a result of childhood bullying that frequently took the form of merciless insincerity.
I hope you're doing better. Your life is worth sharing.
Things everyone must learn themselves because patriarchy instills in them the opposite: