Tristan's Post!

I think men don’t like to cry because it shows weakness. Weakness is essentially admitting that you have a need for something. Crying is showing that you have a need for emotional output, a way of getting rid of all of the tears inside of you. Men try (as a gender) generally to appear strong and intimidating, and so they don’t like to show weakness through tears. If you think about it, you’ve never seen President Obama cry, you’ve never seen your teachers cry, you’ve never seen policemen or firefighters cry. They all need to seem as if they are tough brute people who need nothing. I personally am not ashamed to cry, but I just don’t. If I feel tears coming on, I don’t ever fight them, but I rarely ever feel them in the first place, and I’m sure this is the same for many other men out there as well.