It takes some real fortitude to write something like this for public consumption. In the end, we're writers. We write to get our feelings out, but that doesn't mean it always gets shown to other humans. It takes some real guts to publish such a thing under your real name on your main publication. I've done something similar to this, but I couldn't bring myself to publish it under my real name. It's under a pseudonym on a different corner of Substack for an entirely different audience than my main one.
You're correct about this stigma that exists as North American males towards sharing our feelings. It's not taught very well in the first place, and even when we can work up the gumption to do it, it's often not welcomed. It's this fear that leads me to publish my most personal work under a pseudonym, and it's this fear that I so respect you for moving past. This was powerful.
I've been exposed to this publication very recently. I don't know what the Steele Sports Bar is. I don't know if I like its regular content, but now I know that I respect you Andrew Steele. Thank you for writing something like this. Fully explaining what something like this means to me requires telling elements of my lie story that I'm not going to, because this is your comments section, but even without specifics I can tell you that your story touched me. It's more relatable than (perhaps) you think it is.
I respect you Andrew.
It takes some real fortitude to write something like this for public consumption. In the end, we're writers. We write to get our feelings out, but that doesn't mean it always gets shown to other humans. It takes some real guts to publish such a thing under your real name on your main publication. I've done something similar to this, but I couldn't bring myself to publish it under my real name. It's under a pseudonym on a different corner of Substack for an entirely different audience than my main one.
You're correct about this stigma that exists as North American males towards sharing our feelings. It's not taught very well in the first place, and even when we can work up the gumption to do it, it's often not welcomed. It's this fear that leads me to publish my most personal work under a pseudonym, and it's this fear that I so respect you for moving past. This was powerful.
I've been exposed to this publication very recently. I don't know what the Steele Sports Bar is. I don't know if I like its regular content, but now I know that I respect you Andrew Steele. Thank you for writing something like this. Fully explaining what something like this means to me requires telling elements of my lie story that I'm not going to, because this is your comments section, but even without specifics I can tell you that your story touched me. It's more relatable than (perhaps) you think it is.