I find that the popular discourse about the male expression of feelings and emotion - or lack off - is just another expression of a male deficiency paradigm.

I have worked for variety of education and training providers for 2 decades. I have taught at the level of community and welfare / life skill training, university undergraduate, and professional development. I have never found that boys or men have more difficulty expressing their feelings than women. My relationships with men in the community also confirm this - but it also confirms that to varying degrees men and boys can 'shut-up' this expression in the presence of women or girls. Many men have expressed that they cannot openly share their true feelings when women are present because of gender politics, or because their female partners do not recognise the male expression of emotional feeling as being valid - it does not reflect the female expression. In female dominated groups men are often left without a voice. Schools are increasingly female dominated, so this is a worry. In the same way Suzanne Rice adopts a paradigm of male deficiency in her article and no doubt her beliefs about boys and men.

silversurfer, nicely written.

If guys and gals you write openly of all you were asked for, you will finish in a life-time dole queue, listening to perpetual lies of Australian opportunities not met by you because of a shortage of your skills if even you are genious from a BRITONs descent.