You don't actually want men to share their feelings this much
It's not manly and people don't like it when men are un-manly
I have written before about how little I care about the Royal Family, and that hasn’t changed. So when I read that Prince Harry is going to “live-stream” his “intimate conversation” with an “addiction expert,” one that will constitute a “deep dive into ‘living with loss and the importance of personal healing’,” well, again, I don’t really care about what Harry does qua Harry. But I do care about what this sort of thing means at a civilizational level. And the truth is there are a whole lot of people who for years have been advocating that men have more “intimate conversations” in this vein, that they take “deep dives” into their feelings and discuss things like “personal healing.” And the apex of this cultural shift is arguably Prince Harry—incidentally one of the most privileged and rarefied people to have ever existed—talking about the emotionally difficult things he has experienced in his life.
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