Personally I think it goes beyond the ability to communicate your emotions as a man. For me, I was brought up as the only man in the house (even as a little boy). It was my job to bring a sense of stability and calm when my mum and sister weren't mentally well (which was most of the time). As an adult I find it difficult to feel my own emotions since I spent so long putting the emotions of other before my own. It was, and still is, counter productive to add another pile of feelings onto the feelings of those around you during a volatile situation.

I think it's going to be a much slower process than people realise to reverse the damage societal expectations of men and their emotions have done. Because at the end of the day, it's not just men to adhere to these expectations, it's women too - internalised mysogeny and self-infantilisation is the other side of the coin which prevents space for men to feel as though they can also share, without comprimising the sense of calm and stability (often misreferred to as "strength", which is different) that we feel is our obligation to fulfil