The traditional man is expected to suppress a number of his feelings, however, he also has a lot of freedom to express these feelings in non-verbal ways in the men's spaces.
In heterosexualised spaces, however, although men are generally denied any feelings, and there's no men's space to give quiet vent to your suppresed feelings, men are allowed almost any feeling as long as they are within the heterosexual context, and he will be considered a man in a heterosexual society. This includes all those feelings that in a non-heterosexual context would immediatedly be isolated as third gender.
These double standards give absolute power and benefit to one section of men (who can easily fit into it, without losing much), while it can totally leave out other men, who must lead a sham life, till they live, running away from themselves, in order to fit in as men.
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