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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8618036" data-attributes="member: 18">I think it's generational as well - as you get towards younger men, fewer have been brought up in that way (though plenty still have been), so it has a double-benefit in that sense.It's very noticeable in Britain because we do actually have a lot of people still raised this way, and it's not really a stiff-upper-lip thing, it extends across class divides, there's basically still an "It's okay to get excited/emotional about sports, cars, and maybe dogs, but everything else you must pretend to be cynical and worldweary about", and this includes plenty of people who are involved with nerdy stuff, sadly. As someone who never bought into it, and wasn't raised that way, it's always been a little disturbing/concerning to me, as I don't think it's tremendously helpful to mental health.</blockquote>