Women's tactics to suppress men's emotions backfire on them. They tell men to "man up" and go to great lengths to convince us that "big boys don't cry". Women's influence, usually from mothers and girlfriends who don't want to deal with male emotions, is probably the biggest reason that men are culturally encouraged to suppress their emotions.

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I was reading about a song I really liked back in the seventies. A musician in the band 10cc was talking to his wife and she asked him why he never told her he loved her. He got to thinking about it and, being the song writer that he was, a song came to his mind. The idea was based on the fact that men aren't supposed to have, or at least aren't supposed to show, emotions. Women don't want to deal with men's emotions, but the other side of that coin is that the same women who discourage men from showing emotional interest in them are depriving themselves of the emotional interest they would like to receive from men. So this guy wrote a song about that, based on his wife's comment that he didn't tell her that he loved her often enough. The song is like an analysis of the psychology of the suppression of male emotions in modern human society. It is called I'm Not In Love. Some of you might remember it. I think it is an early example, from the era of second wave feminism, of one of the ways that women's manipulation of men actually backfires on women themselves. Click the link and have a listen.