What do you think about men expected to be emotionally stronger in society?

I think society is redundant and should have no influence over a person as to how to behave, or what should be expected of them.

I think it's stupid. Men can sometimes be even more emotional than women. I know for a fact that i can be! Society shouldn't influence a person's emotional stability to the point of affecting their personality.

This standard is an unfortunate truth for a majority of males. It is an important issue; what we expect from boys and men. Unfortunately that "strength" means that men are required to be either confrontational or unemotional in general. This generates generation after generation of males with repressed anger and vulnerability that contributes to an inability to empathize. This allows for violence to not only be prevalent but often acceptable.

I think men should be emotionally supportive.. not stronger because I think it all depends on the person. Just in my experience though the men Ive had to deal with are about as emotionally strong as a piece of chalk... meaning that they have no idea how to handle their emotions.. they just hide them- like podptasznik said. It all depends on the society and the person's experience. You cant expect someone to be emotionally strong who has never learned how to do so. I do wish men had more knowledge on how to handle their emotions and be a strong support system because they do kinda get the shorter end of the stick with how to deal with their emotions.

The really important thing is to detach the idea that being stoic is productive or necessary, but also to detach it from what is considered a 'dominant male', even in joking. We take sexuality very seriously and the idea that anything can 'increase our odds' of having sex/procreating, we're likely to do it.It's a terrible and stupid concept though and all it does is create men who cannot communicate and women who recoil from men who do communicate (in observation of the general population, this does not apply to everyone.) It'll take time to get past, but we'll get there.

I think that's just a stereotype, they're not exactly "expected" to be emotionally strong. We can't expect someone to be a certain way because everyone is different. Everyone just automatically thinks, "Oh yeah men are the strong ones!" because that's the way society decided to think about it. So no, men can be just as emotional as women.