Even outside a professional setting, the transaction of words is merely a sharing of knowledge. Speaking with friends, family, strangers - we're all talking as a form of expressing our learnings from personal experiences. Which is strange since so many people enjoy the act of expressing their transactions, but hardly a handful express words of vulnerability. The modern definition of vulnerability is expressing oneself through raw, emotional depth, but yet, is seen as a sacred act that isn't exposed to many within our own social circles. Why is that? The transaction of knowledge between oneselves is normal, so then why is sharing about one's own human condition a scarce expression?
Maybe toxic masculinity was devolved from that, where the transactionalism of experience influences and forms a wall around self expression and vulnerability. Being truthful on voicing out who we are in each moment and the emotions that traverse our minds with each situation should be normalized, without offense to those who hear it. But there is hardly any safe places left, and many find it hard to confront those aspects of themselves when alone.
There is no more courage or sanity in the people I've encountered. What's left is only shells of emotions that ride on clout and going with the flow.
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