I’ve had a lot of private conversations about this and the amount of resistance I get to the idea that men even deserve some sort of empathy for their experience, specifically from women, is pretty telling.
I would say shocking, but considering my own experience and culturally
Yes, but it's still a different approach.
It takes a different type of personality to make something that has never existed than it does to reiterate something more efficiently. Different types of intelligence.
At base level, it seems like despite claiming otherwise, most women I’ve been close to don’t actually want men to be open and are neither safe to nor capable of being supportive of men’s issues.
This becomes a recursive problem.
Largely I’ve found that women claim to want a man to be open, but are also very quickly frustrated with the idea of doing emotional work with their partner. This might be partially due to the particular woman’s internal blockages, but I think it’s also due to the inherent
In june, I spent something like 200 hours living in a gallery, painting the beginning of existence.
Here’s the interplay of the first difference.
“Collapse”
10’ x 6’ acrylic on canvas.
