like, if i’m feeling bad but force myself to do something, i usually feel better. how to maintain the usefulness of this advice without presenting it as ‘fuck your feelings’, in that usual arrogant right wing sort of way
like, if i’m feeling bad but force myself to do something, i usually feel better. how to maintain the usefulness of this advice without presenting it as ‘fuck your feelings’, in that usual arrogant right wing sort of way
It’s weird that I was thinking about this just yesterday. I concluded there isn’t much good way to make it not sound like an insult, but you could make it less about gender.
Things like “Don’t be a baby.” Or “Don’t be a scaredy cat.” Because it’s often just fear holding someone back that elicits these phrases, and I do feel that encouraging people to push past fears is a good thing overall. There just aren’t any established phrases I could think of that would work the same way without also making the one saying it seem cold.