Kannon Redd
@Kannon · 3:38
Give me a minute of your time
Nobody's going to bat their eye when a man actually goes through something so traumatic that he can't recover from it. But everybody wants to know what made him go that route. Why is he the way he is? A bunch of f****** questions that basically nothing to try to answer about. Because again, we are men. At the end of the day, we have to look forward to doing absolutely nothing
Jill Benoff
@jillbenoff · 1:52
Hey, Kannon, it's Jill. Just checking in on you, making sure you're okay. Yeah. Most men have been taught to hide their emotions. Granted, I'm a woman. When I grew up, I was also conditioned not to cry, to make fun of people who did. But that's not who I am. I have a very hard time crying myself. Just to let you know that. It's not just men. It's some women as well
Kannon Redd
@Kannon · 1:38
And I want more women, more men, more people in nature just to know that sometimes you have to get to a corner and just let everything out. Sometimes you have to be a person that just let it all go. But again, thank thank you for checking in on me, and thank you for sharing that information, because, honestly, as a guy, you don't get to see much of women who have to bottle it up and don't show any emotion
Jill Benoff
@jillbenoff · 1:49
Hey, Kannon, it's Jill. Thanks for checking in on me. I'm doing okay today. I also hope you're having a great day. But there are more women than me, I promise you, that have built up that wall and don't know how to take out bricks. I've done that all my life. It takes a lot to take that brick wall down, and very few people have gotten through that brick wall even to be friends with
Kannon Redd
@Kannon · 1:21
As I stated earlier, it's time for people to understand that, again, letting it out is something that's more healthier than keeping it in. And I'm a very guarded person. I'm very wooled in. So it's very hard for me to trust, which I understand that I pull people in, and it takes a while for the trust cycle to start
But if a man decides to show their emotions or say, I need help, or I need this, or I'm feeling all of a sudden that's suspect, that's gay, that's queer, they're funny, they're crazy, they need help. And all of these things surrounding mental health and masculinity and proposal, everything that we've been taught start to come into play. And I think the point here is we are met and we're looked and held to a certain standard
