I have noticed that when we talk about men's loneliness or emotional-starvation, there is a rhetoric especially from progressive spaces that 'you're acting like a little boy' or 'you need to man up'.  I am coining a new term for this response. It's called 'benevloent emasculation'.  Benevolent Emasculation - The act of gaslighting a man into believing that he's acting like a little boy when he expresses his very real problems.  To all of you doing this behavior, here's my question - why do YOU assume that when a man talks about his problems, he's 'acting like a little boy'?! Where did that come from?! Why are YOU convincing men that they're less mature than they are?! Why are YOU conditioning men into believing that they're 'being little boys'?!  Do real men not communicate?! Is that what this boils down to?!