Men can't cry.

[Rantsylvania 6-5000]

This whole notion that men aren't supposed to cry is crap. Women tend to outlive men, and it's probably because society says it's okay for us to cry. Men might live longer if they felt free to relieve stress that way too.

[Hobbs]

This whole notion that men aren't supposed to cry is crap. Women tend to outlive men, and it's probably because society says it's okay for us to cry. Men might live longer if they felt free to relieve stress that way too.

We die younger to get away.

[Boozy]

I think it's kind of sexy when men cry. Not those lurching sobs that involve snotty noses and swollen eyes (that's unattractive for anyone) but maybe a few manly tears.

My family values stoicism at all costs; we never cry. At some point, I realized how unhealthy that is, but it was too late. I have trouble crying now, even when I'm terribly sad.

I married the same kind of person. I've known my husband for 15 years, and I've still never seen him cry openly. I have a suspicion that he might have cried this week after we rushed our dog to the emergency room for the second time, because his eyes looked a bit red when I came home. But I'll never know for sure. He may have just been tired.

[jackfaire]

I will admit here and now when the stress of trying to cover all of my bills by myself and drowning I cried. Then I bucked up came up with a plan to solve my issue and get my debt gone. But yes I cried.

[Hobbs]

Boozy, I <3 your family. Wanna trade?

[Red Panda]

I don't like men crying. Its unsettling

[anakhouri]

I'm going to teach Khan it's OK to cry. Not over little things, like dropping your toast on the floor (unless it lands butter-side down) but he shouldn't be ashamed to show his feelings if he's hurt or sad.

Husband has cried a few times; when Khan was born, when my dog died, at the end of Peter Jackson's "King Kong". Nothing wrong with it.

[HYHYBT]

But toast *always* lands butter-side down, so why teach him not to cry when it doesn't?

(I remember reading about that as the basis of a perpetual-motion machine: tie buttered toast to a cat, drop them, and watch them hover and spin because the toast always lands butter-down and the cat always lands on its feet.)

[Wingates_Hellsing]

Does that mean I can get my dogs to always land on their feet if I affixed a slice of toast to each paw, butter side down?

[jackfaire]

Does this thread remind anyone else of the episode of Friends where Monica was trying to get Chandler to be able to cry.

[HYHYBT]

Does that mean I can get my dogs to always land on their feet if I affixed a slice of toast to each paw, butter side down?

Possibly, but the floor'd be a mess.

[Green_Fairy]

my fiance's a sailor with the us navy. i think i've seen him cry more often than any other guy i've known. he cried when i dropped him off at the airport before he left for iraq and he cried almost every night for a week before that. he cries every time he talks to his 3 year old daughter on the phone. he cried the first time he told me he loved me.
real men cry. anyone that says otherwise is kinda heartless

[Hobbs]

my fiance's a sailor with the us navy. i think i've seen him cry more often than any other guy i've known. he cried when i dropped him off at the airport before he left for iraq and he cried almost every night for a week before that. he cries every time he talks to his 3 year old daughter on the phone. he cried the first time he told me he loved me.
real men cry. anyone that says otherwise is kinda heartless

What'd ya expect from a sailor?

J/k GF, you know I respect him.

Anywho's, I remember a story my dad told me. He was at a family funeral and started crying (he was a kid). His uncle told him "Men don't cry," and to stop. Later on, he saw his uncle crying. He asked him "Wtf?" (not literally) and his uncle replied, "Yes I'm crying, but I'm crying like a man."

[jackfaire]

I wrote a short once about a daughter who keeps catching her dad crying at important points in her life and she would always say, "I thought boys don't cry" he would reply "daddies do"