Transgender actor Elliot Page described "healthy masculinity" as pushing away the impulse to "shut down" emotionally on Thursday.The 39-year-old "Odyssey" actor was asked on the "It's Open with Ilana Glazer" podcast about healthy masculinity as a public figure and someone on a "gender journey." Page claimed that healthy masculinity was moving away from the "expectation" to be closed off from others."Healthy masculinity, to me, is or even just something I’ve felt as, like, transitioning, is like leaning away from whenever there is some sort of impulse or expectation you’ve put on yourself to, like, shut down," Page said."Or conform in a way that usually feels like ‘this,’ like I am closing off."'THE VIEW' DISMISSES MORE YOUNG MEN TURNING TO RELIGION AS PART OF 'MANOSPHERE'Actor Elliot Page, formerly known as Ellen Page, came out as transgender in 2020.
(Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)Page continued, "I remember kind of being like, ‘Oh, Elliot, maybe you should talk with your hands a little less, or, you know, maybe in pictures you’re...' because ever since transitioning now, I’m like smiling in those photos.Whereas, I used to be so like, I could barely look at a photo of myself.
I was always like, you know, and now (smiling)."Page described seeing a contrast in taking photos with male fans who refused to smile in pictures.DANA WHITE MOCKS CONCERNS ABOUT SO-CALLED 'TOXIC MASCULINITY,' WARNS SOCIETY HAS 'DISPLACED' YOUNG MEN"And I’m, like, having that moment where I’m, like, ‘Oh, should I also not? Should I also be closed off? It’s just like, what the f---, Elliot?' What are you talking about? Like, oh, honey, you’re part of the problem," Page said.Elliot Page described healthy masculinity as sometimes "a really good cry." (Rich Polk for Getty Images/IMDB)As a general note, Page added that healthy masculinity would also include practical healthy habits like drinking water and greater efforts by men to "love themselves."LIBERAL AUTHOR TELLS 'T...