men act stoic not because they think they have to, but because they accept reality. there are some things that are not within your power to change, so you simply have to live with them. stuff like it starting to rain when you have to go out and so on. suffering those stoically is the only sensible way to deal with them, because throwing a tantrum won't achieve anything anyway and is just a waste of time and energy. a man doesn't suffer them stoically because he thinks it makes him manly, but just because there's no point in doing anything else. for things you can change though, it's not stoicism. and if you read any of the texts from stoics, they make it pretty clear that stoicism does not include suffering through things you can change.
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