/lit/ - Literature

There's this paradox - at least I've come to see it as such - that I see every once in a while on this board, and I wanted to make note of it to see what you guys think.

One of Stoicism's main tenets is to ultimately not worry about things that are out of your control - there's more nuance to it, but for what I'm about to say it doesn't really matter. Chiefly or solely because of this, some people claim Stoicism to be a philosophy by cucks for cucks (because, for example, if your wife were to have sex with another man a Stoic is supposed to be indifferent to it, therefore making them a cuckold).

I'm not here to defend Stoicism, so whether or not that analysis is valid isn't the point. What I do care about is the other side of humanity, the people who do let external things dictate their mode of thought. Describing these people in another way, they are people who literally allow others to control how they feel and even the actions they commit; could you not very well call these people cucks in a sense? As far as I'm concerned, if the aforementioned analysis of Stoicism is apt, then everyone is a cuck in some regard. The question then becomes what type of cuck you want to be.