What is the male perspective/counterpoint to the female โmental loadโ or โemotional labourโ?
Men donโt do emotional labor because to many women, any man showing any emotion (other than perhaps anger) is a huge and immediate turn-off that dooms you forever in her eyes.
Women police menโs emotions very heavily, more than other men do (after high school anyway). And men react to this logically enough by not showing any.