#social repression

[peacemore-springs]

Repression

Repression refers to restraining, subduing or inhibiting something or someone. Repression can be emotional or social. Emotional repression is subduing one’s own thoughts or desires so that they remain unconscious. Social repression is when governing parties restrain the freedom of people. Repression can also apply to information, memory, expression, etc.

[xxredridinghoodxx]

Often the most unexpressed emotion for a woman is anger. For a man sadness.

Josephine Briar

The hour has arrived that we must let our men cry and our women scream. Its not fair for a woman to only acceptably be happy or unhappy. Nor is it justifiable that a man’s appropriate response to nearly everything should be ire. All emotions are meant to be felt and conveyed. We have been taught from the cradle to be out of touch with ourselves. A side effect of this is living and achieving based on dreams and ideals that never belonged to us. Aside from that consequence the second and perhaps more devastating, have been robbed of the ability to communicate. If we can scarcely comprehend ourselves, effectively linking our thoughts and responses to events and stimuli how then can we tell others much less listen?