It really isn’t. Having emotions is not weak. Pretending like you don’t is weak. Expressing the emotions you have, processing them, letting them move through you, and moving on productively is not weak, it is strong. Shoving them down and the having them come out in other nonconstructive ways is not strong, it is avoidant. Allowing yourself to have emotions despite the judgement of others does not make you vulnerable, it means you are healthy and self-assured enough to support yourself emotionally.
This nonsense with safe injection sites, politicians interfering with patent care, and the push for “involuntary treatment” in BC makes me think that the brief era of “science-based policy” where empirical data trump public ignorance is coming to a crashing end.