The Weird Way Men Show their Desperation for Vulnerability

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I suppose my problem with vulnerability started on the playground. Sometimes when we’d roughhouse, someone would pretend to be mortally wounded, everyone would crowd around him and then he’d just jump up and laugh at us.

I did it sometimes too. It was like a running gag. Until one day, I actually did get hurt and I was actually crying. People crowded around…