The Emotional Gym: Lifting Society’s Expectations: Episode 20 April 16, 2025
In this episode, we take a closer look at one of the most infamous lines in movie history—“Are you crying? There’s no crying in baseball!”—and how it echoes a much bigger cultural script: Men don’t cry. Or at least, they’re not supposed to. But who wrote that rulebook, and why are we all still pretending it makes sense? That’s just one chapter in a much bigger book of double standards men face every day.
From the pressure to be emotionally bulletproof to the unspoken rule that men should always foot the bill, fix the car, and never take paternity leave (unless they want to be side-eyed by…
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