Some might have been.

I distinctly remember my grandfather telling me that crying was “never ok”, even when I was like, 5, and seriously injured myself…

But he was Presbyterian as all fuck, and a hard, hard man, so…

Unfortunately that perhaps doesn’t go for all men of that time.

You’d be surprised at how cold some of them were. Though I appreciate that my family are not representative of wider reality. I’ve met plenty of older blokes who were much less… “Stoic” than that.

But hey, they did their best, I guess.