Yeah, it would.

Yes, I know there are. And if you have anything written by a father describing it vis a vis his relationship and feelings towards his daughter, given that this is the subject he chose to expound upon, I would be very interested in hearing it.

He's a poet, and it sounds like he has already explained this as a description of the irrational shit going on his head. Shit he knows is irrational. So he's talking about it, getting it out. How is that not 'dealing with it?'

Very fair point. Though a slam poem about fighting the many injustices of the patriarchy in general may not have the same punch to it. Hmm

I get that, and I imagine the whole 'delicate flower' trope is pretty damn tiresome. But from a purely pragmatic POV...if he was talking about his son and cartoonishly threatening violence against future girlfriends...Well, that doesn't really seem to work for a whole bunch of reasons, does it?

And as the crowd laughs and applauds him for being threatening (he's got a toy cap gun prop), it's hard not to feel like there's a bit of agency robbed of the daughter, and an old, very familiar narrative playing out: The patriarch shielding the woman from the world.

Haha I think it depends on where in the process of subjective cognition we're actually looking. But yeah all of this is pretty damn abstract.

Certainly not OUR emotions...Hell, we can't even figure out for sure whether all of us humans even experience emotion in the same manner, and that's just our own species. But a close approximation certainly seems well within the realm of possibility.