Nevertheless, I stand by the way I phrased it. Perhaps I want to draw the reader’s attention to the ways we aren’t supposed to talk about feeling, as opposed to the ways that we are.
Perhaps, to me, these posts are examples of “we aren’t supposed to talk about feelings”. They talk about feelings. But they aren’t supposed to talk about feelings.
I can perceive a resistance, a discomfort from the LW hivemind at bringing up “feelings”. This doesn’t feel like an “open and honest dialogue about our feelings”. This has the energy of a “boil being burst”, a “pressure being released”, so that we can return to that safe numbness of not talking about feelings.
We don’t want to talk about feelings. We only talk about them when we have to.
Hmm.
Yes.
Nevertheless, I stand by the way I phrased it. Perhaps I want to draw the reader’s attention to the ways we aren’t supposed to talk about feeling, as opposed to the ways that we are.
Perhaps, to me, these posts are examples of “we aren’t supposed to talk about feelings”. They talk about feelings. But they aren’t supposed to talk about feelings.
I can perceive a resistance, a discomfort from the LW hivemind at bringing up “feelings”. This doesn’t feel like an “open and honest dialogue about our feelings”. This has the energy of a “boil being burst”, a “pressure being released”, so that we can return to that safe numbness of not talking about feelings.
We don’t want to talk about feelings. We only talk about them when we have to.