Excerpt from a YouTube monologue by Anwar White discussing emotional availability and empathy in relationships. The speaker argues that emotional availability requires anticipating others' feelings, setting higher standards for men to avoid toxic masculinity, and asserts that women should lead the relationship’s pace and emotional depth.
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Again, we're talking about emotional availability here. And part of emotional availability is also being empathetic and putting yourself in someone else's shoes and seeing how they would receive something that has not been asked. This is why we're having this conversation tonight, so we can start having different standards for these men. Because what you're thinking is healthy masculine energy can get toxic really fast. And let him come to you and say, hey, I called you.
Okay, great. I didn't think that we actually agreed upon a time, but I'm more than willing to talk to you, like, at an agreed time, and then you give them the two dates. As a woman, you are the leader of the relationship. You set the pace and you set the emotional depth, and I don't ever want you to forget that.