He had a stoic response and told people that even if they get it, they can recover, too. No therapeutic language. No blubbering. No emoting. That's how every leader should respond to crises or challenges.
We've been on this road of feminizing society for decades, now. It isn't working. Rather than fewer mental illnesses among the population, we have more, particularly among women. Screwing up major institutions with emotive theater, McCarthy-like witch hunts, attacks on objectivity and merit, censorship of language, etc., cannot be fixed quickly once put into motion. Radicals tear things down. They don't build things, and it takes a long time to build these institutions. Talk about a "threat to democracy." When the institutions that constitute a democracy are used to target political enemies and particular factions unsuitable to the aims of the people in power, you no longer have a democracy, you have some sort of authoritarian, banana republic. Did I hear one witness today in a position of power actually say that all federal officials should be investigated to determine if they have any problematic beliefs? You don't have to be a right-winger to find that profoundly disturbing.
Those of you who think that the extreme polarization of our time is merely coincidental to the rise of women to positions of power, think about the so-called "extremes" among our politicians. You'll see a disproportionate number of women. Think about your own lives. My wife, like many women I've known, hates working for female bosses and in majority-female workplaces. They are dens of reputation-destruction, passive aggression, and emotive theater. Exactly what we see now in our society. Twitter lynch mobs for problematic speech. Mask hounds. Race hoaxes. And on and on. With regards to censorship of speech, look at the internet itself. In 25+ years, I've been on a lot of forums. Of the few that have female participants, the "moderated" forums come from these few. The moderators are overwhelmingly women and they devise ever-more restrictive rules about disallowed speech. The posters who complain about problematic speech are overwhelmingly women. They have less, not more, tolerance for differing viewpoints, in large part because women are much more likely to take criticism of their idea or belief as a personal attack. Every guy here has experienced that many times in his own life.
This all is less about women, in the end, and more about men needing to grow some and to step up. We need men to step up and say that emotive theater, witch hunts, feelings over reason, demands for zero tolerance of risks cannot sustain a civilization. We're not going further down this road. Life is hard and no one owes you anything. These are things that men and fathers especially, used to impart. It's crucial in any society.