[QUOTE="Nifty_Shark"]I get the stereotypes. The examples you posted OP. It's the general way of thinking in our society which has been passed on from generation to generation. we can agree and disagree with it but gender stereotyping is very hard to break. Me I have aloud myself to become more emotionally evocative. I won't be having a breakdown in public but I'm not as scared to express myself as I was say a few years earlier. This could be cause of my age (very early 20s) or maybe I wasn't as comfortable in my own skin as I am now. Who knows but to answer your question I dislike the notion that crying is a sign of weakness. MrGeezer
I don't even think it's entirely a gender thing. Even a woman who cries all the time is going to be thought of as a drama queen.
I don't necesarily think that crying is a sign of weakness, but it can be. It's still an emotional outburst, and there are situations in which ANY emotional outburst is detrimental to solving the situation. If people start crying when it's appropriate, fine. But if someone starts crying when they need to be keeping a cool head, then I could potentially see that as a sign of weakness.
I was kind of thinking in terms of "boys don't cry". Since a boy was little he was conditioned to think that way. Or at least that's the kind of feeling I get. Women who cry all the time... sure they can be seen as drama queens. In public though I'd say it wouldn't be out of place to see a women weep with someone trying to console her. A man crying will probably get any other reaction.
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