Normative Male Alexithymia

The “decline of men” is a common narrative that isn’t necessarily true, but we need to have more open discussions about what’s happening.

Because you may not know the term, I’ll start by defining it: “alexithymia” is a reduced ability to display and discuss emotions. As you’d guess, this is more associated with men. The seemingly-seminal paper on this is called “Are men emotional mummies?” and came about 22 years ago. It contains this paragraph, which I think would be logical for a lot of…