Dana White is Wrong

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Men's mental health. Are you a man? Do you have mental health? Well, do I have news for you? Apparently, uh our mental health is a topic of discussion for everyone around the world. We're all talking about our brains and and why it is either healthy or unhealthy and how the world contributes to that or how we contribute to it as well. There's a several clips about this concept that's been trending for like the past day or two that people have been talking about.

[00:00:26]Uh, this one here specifically says, "Dana White explains why he hates men's mental health culture." Which is a absolutely wild statement to say that you hate uh mental health culture, right? I mean, imagine saying like, "I hate physical health culture." Like, "I hate the idea of you going outside and exercising and breathing." And imagine that. All right. Okay. But let's kind of look into this. I hate this whole men's mental health that they talk about. Um, unfortunately, when you're a man, you are the provider. You are the one that that takes care of your family.

[00:01:07]Uh, you know, you you are the example for your kids when they grow up and your sons, you know, and your daughters and and you unfortunately you you you can't be that guy. That's I I see these guys posting on on social media. Oh, I had a bad day and I'm so sad and all this other crazy >> So unattractive.

[00:01:30]>> Oh, it's just it's unattractive to other males, let alone women. I can't even imagine. Uh yeah, I'm I'm I'm really against all that >> Pause.

[00:01:45]Did y'all hear that? Peppers Farm heard that. Did Gang Gang just really say that it's unattractive to other men? Oh boy, they ain't a white. We It's okay. It's okay.

[00:01:59]Imagine a Freudian slip suggesting that the reason why that you don't want to take care of your mental health is because it's not attractive to other men. That aside, all right, let's kind of talk about what he said. uh go back to some of the lines because I do feel like this is a very problematic thinking and the reason why uh men's mental health in general is usually so terrible.

[00:02:23]>> Unfortunately, when you're a man, you are the provider. You are the one that that takes care of your family. Uh >> you know, you you are the example for your kids when they grow up and your sons, you know, and your daughters.

[00:02:42]And and you unfortunately you you you you can't be that guy that's I I see these guys posting on on social media, oh I had a bad day and I'm so sad and all this other crazy >> So essentially suggesting that men going online or any kind of space and expressing your emotions and feelings is is weak. It's it's BS. It's it's garbage. You don't have the time to do that. I have so many problems with this statement, right? Because it's the inability for men to actually share their thoughts and feelings that create uh emotionally unintelligent men like Dana who in my opinion have repressed emotions and feelings that they have not processed that create a lot of the problems that they're going through. A lot of these men then end up becoming people who are emotionally dysfunctional or they can't emotionally regulate and they end up becoming abusive fathers or terrible parents. And so if you really care about your your kids, right? The goal is for you to actually understand and process your feelings and then share that knowledge with your both your sons and daughters so that they can also regulate their own emotions and feelings and understand why they feel the way that they feel. my opinion, I think one of the largest hiccups when it comes to men in mental health, right, is that they feel things and they don't know what it means. They don't know how to navigate the emotion, the sadness. They feel sadness, but they don't know why.

[00:04:10]So, they they lash out or they feel anger and they don't know why. So, they lash out or they feel frustration or anxiety and they don't know how to process it. So, it comes out in some kind of way that is, you know, the the man thing. I just still can't believe that we're like in 2026, right? And we're still trying to somehow assign not actually uh being tapped in to your emotions or sharing your emotions um as as something that men should do. Like why are we still kind of like spreading this rhetoric? Why are we so good as men to kind of understand the the necessities when it comes to physical health to going to the gym and working on our body and exercising and and making sure that our body stays sturdy?

[00:04:50]Why are we so pro that yet when it comes to applying that same thing to our brains, right? The things that actually drive our body that's connected to it, why are we so against it? It's it's it's absolutely backwards. And I think at least as a man, if you are a part of the culture when it comes to the physical health, it feels like it's completely backwards for you to ignore the mental one. Be very clear guys, uh, expressing your emotions and your feelings and talking about it about somebody and processing it, okay, is extremely extremely healthy and probably mandatory. Otherwise, you you you grow up and you become that that old bitter man. And you don't want to be that. You you don't want to be old, bitter man that yells at cloud.

[00:05:34]>> So unattractive.

[00:05:35]>> Oh, it's just it's unattractive to other males, let alone women.

[00:05:40]>> That that statement is wild.

[00:05:42]The idea that you suggest that it's unattractive again kind of goes back to when we talked about Caleb and that one video where he talked about Gen Z people being losers. There's this idea that you have to be a version of yourself that is attractive to other people, right? So you you perform in a way and live your life in a way so that other people can accept you and like you. And I've already expressed how how terrifying this notion is. I talked about it briefly as well in another video about that woman, the gamer, the girl who said that playing video games is unattractive. And a lot of people can understand like, what do you mean? I don't care that it's unattractive. I'm going to play video games and do what I love regardless if you were attracted to or not because I'm not here on this earth for you to be attracted to me.

[00:06:28]That same exact logic applies to your emotions and your feelings. Okay? You should cry when you want to cry. You should be sad when you want to sad and not be worried that someone around you is not going to be attracted to it.

[00:06:43]Because if someone is unattracted to you expressing emotions, then at least in my opinion, they're not probably a person that you should have in your life. I really do feel like we have to get out of this notion that sadness bad, you know, right? Sadness bad, sadness weak. Do not feel sadness. Do not feel weak. We have to stop criminalizing our emotions. All right? Our emotions didn't do nothing.

[00:07:10]And suggesting that by not interacting with certain emotions, it's going to make us stronger is one of the worst uh truths that people have been saying.

[00:07:19]It's it's the biggest lie that has been told to men for so long. Sadness is healthy. Crying is healthy. Being vulnerable is absolutely healthy. that you it's actually better because a lot of people are afraid of being vulnerable and being sad. If anything, expressing these emotions means that you have more power and more courage than people who try not to because they're afraid of how they're going to look. They're insecure.

[00:07:46]Okay? But they want to come off as macho or as better than or that it's not necessary when deep down inside, right, they're literally just afraid of expressing a certain emotion. I can't even imagine. Uh yeah, I'm I'm I'm really against all that >> Hey. Yeah. And finally, to go back to the point about him talking about the uh not being attractive to men. All right.

[00:08:08]Whether you call it a 40 and slip or not, it's an actual real thing. It's very important for us to talk about how a lot of men try to basically perform and live their life in a way to satisfy the expectations of another man. Okay, these are usually men with daddy issues.

[00:08:24]I know we like to talk about women with daddy issues, but yes, a lot of guys out there looking for that father figure, male approval, and other men that they didn't get from their own dad in order to feel like a man themselves. There's a void that a lot of people carry that they feel like they have to get externally. Some type of approval, some type of nod, some type of, "Yeah, dude, you really are that guy. Yeah, man. You are a man." Yes. now and I feel like a man because another man has told me that I am a man. Imagine needing another man to tell you that you are a man in order to feel like a man. And even deeper, imagine having to need the feeling of feeling like a man.

[00:09:12]Going one more layer deeper, right? This concept of a man being strong and burly and and and and undefeable and invincible, right? this this image that people have created of what it is it is to be a man. Imagine who are you doing it for? Who who are you performing for?

[00:09:28]What what makes you feel like that you have to do this? Who is telling you that you have to feel this way? Image in my opinion has life tried to tell you that you have to be versus uh what you want to be. Feel like a lot of it's programming uh in my opinion. Okay. We we pick up on what other people tell us, especially when we're kids and we're younger. And I don't think we ever kind of reach phases where we deprogram the teachings that we've been taught. Uh sometimes we do, but then we just replace it with another teaching, right?

[00:10:00]Like, okay, someone told us to be this way, but then I watched a bunch of uh red pill videos or I watched a bunch of blue pill videos and now now I'm going to be this thing, right? Or now I'm going to be this thing, right? It's a lot of people just listening what other people say and how to live their life and say, "Okay, I'm going to listen to this person in terms of how to live my life." Because I think it's actually harder for people to actually believe that they can live their life on their own terms for themselves and nobody else in terms of the expectations of of who you're meant to be. Finding your own purpose, finding your own dreams, finding out what fulfills you and only you, and then figuring out how to spread that around the world. That requires courage. uh that requires strength. It requires emotional exploration. It requires uh dissolving your ego and taking away the labels that that you may apply to yourself in order to make yourself feel better. It takes a lot of dissembling and an ego death that I would say in order to reach the place where you become truly yourself and then start living uh authentically for yourself for others. There's this reply here said, "There's a stigma in this world that men can't talk. I know I'd rather have my mate cry on my shoulder than go to his funeral next week. So, please let's get rid of this stigma and men start talking. Uh Patty Pimpblelet on Men's Mental Health. Yes, exactly, bro. If anybody in your circle would make fun of you for crying, okay, get them out of your circle immediately.

[00:11:25]Expeditiously. Expeditiously. Okay, run.

[00:11:28]Get some help. Be careful who you keep in your circles, fellas. This inability for men to really really express how they feel, specifically the sadness emotion is the reason why there's so much repressed anger in our freaking community and we figure out ways to take it out on everybody around us. Man, this is also another good one as well. I refuse to carry the burden of having to hide my emotions. Victor uh Wenbanya when asked why people view emotions as weakness. Again the lie that people have told all of us is that sadness is a weakness and it is the complete opposite. Okay. Sadness creates joy. It creates empathy. All right. It it it it is beautiful. Uh we tend to cry for actually many things. You might see something beautiful and experience tears. Tears in themselves are objectively a thing that humans transmit when we have an emotion or a feeling that just becomes pretty pretty large.

[00:12:30]There are tears of joy. There are tears of sorrow. You can cry laughing, right?

[00:12:36]Like every emotion you can be so angry that you cry. But the point of a tear of a cry does not have to be characterized as some kind of evil when objectively scientifically tears come out of our eyes just because we're feeling every single type of emotion which also includes sadness. So uh another trending tweet about this subject and direct reply to uh Dana was macho man Randy Savage. Okay, wrestler. His literal name is literally Macho Man.

[00:13:07]I haven't watched this clip, but let's see what his opinion is when it comes to men and their mental health.

[00:13:12]>> Okay. Your your your middle name is Macho, but um I'm wondering if you ever cry. You ever has a Macho Man ever cried?

[00:13:20]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:13:20]>> Really?

[00:13:21]>> Uh-huh. It's okay for macho men to show every emotion available right there. You know, because I've cried a thousand times. I'm going to cry some more. But I've soared with the eagles and I've slithered with the snakes and I've been everywhere in between. And I'm going to tell you something right now. There's one guarantee in life and that there are no guarantees. Yeah. And understand this. Yeah. Nobody likes a quitter. Nobody said life was easy. So if you get knocked down, take the standing eight count, get back up and fight again, and you're a macho maniac.

[00:13:54]Dig it.

[00:13:56]>> That's I mean, can we macho man? He essentially said that yes, he's going to keep crying. Okay. They expressed the emotion and the sadness is something that's completely normal, right? And they talked about getting up and fighting again. Uh the idea is that sometimes in life, it's going to beat the living out of us.

[00:14:18]A lot of you might be feeling this like right now, right? And that's by design, okay? If you're not down right now, you're going to be down sometime later.

[00:14:25]Okay? We all go down for the count eventually, right? Right. But when you become more in tune with your emotions and you build friendships that are healthy and you you have to build good relationship with yourself, right, the idea is that you do fall, but then you have the courage to get back up and try again, right? Which is a powerful thing.

[00:14:47]I feel like a lot of times my tears are often triggered. Maybe you guys uh recognize this or not, but when I watch One Piece or any kind of anime, when I see people like trying or struggling, you know, like getting up being like, "Yeah, the I haven't I haven't heard no bell." Seeing people not give up for me triggers an emotional response of I don't know if it's happiness or sadness or a combination of both. But I think it's one of the biggest joys in life to see people fight even when the the easier thing is to lay down and give up because I honestly think that's what just life is about. It's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful thing to to to overcome and to grow and to to learn and to continue to be uh better versions of yourself and to to not give up. Um, in a world where I think they make it pretty easy to give up on on your dreams, on your goals, on your ambition, on your relationships, on your life, I I think life has a tendency of making it very easy for that to happen and it just fall off to the wayside. Sadness is healthy.

[00:15:53]Please experience it. Please express your emotion. If anybody tells you not to feel emotions, okay? They are in the sunken place. And and I'm not saying to to judge them. I'm not saying to to demonize them. It's it's a teaching that a lot of us have been taught. It's it's toxic masculinity. And women too as well. This emotions apply to you as well. Um but you know, for men specifically and men's mental health, okay, do not lock yourself out of your own feelings and your emotions. Like imagine playing a video game, bro, or an RPG, bro. Your emotions and your feelings are things that help you to access different parts of yourself in order for you to become stronger, in order for you to become more self-aware.

[00:16:34]You become um more of yourself. When you access everything that is you, okay? And by locking specific skill or a certain emotion, right, and making it gray space, okay? It limits your potential and your ability. It does not make you stronger to ignore your emotions.

[00:16:57]Numbing the pain and the feelings so that you can just do XYZ in the moment may allow you to persevere. But eventually, if you keep your hand on a pot or on a stove that is burning hot and you keep convincing yourself that this pot or stove is not burning hot, you will eventually have no hand, my friend.

[00:17:23]That is something that's going to happen whether now or later. And if you choose to kind of accept these emotions in now and process them, my friend, that is the beginning of a lot of people's healing journeys. So, yeah. Anyway, that's all I have to say about this. Let me know how you guys feel about this in the comments below. I'll catch you guys later. Take it easy.