Should Men Cry More?

William_F0ster · 2016-08-02T20:22:24+00:00

My bullshit detector went off the scale watching most of that.

User-31f64a4e · 2016-08-02T22:24:12+00:00

Crying is not about feeling sad or unhappy or whatever.

Crying is a social mechanism for signalling your emotional state to the world.
This is why, as many have noted, little kids seem to only cry when someone is around to see it.

Crying is a public display, a mechanism for getting someone else to do or not do something you don't want. Helping you, not leaving you, offering consolation, etc. Sometimes you cry at the passing of a loved one. The tears are a public testimony, a signal to the world how much you loved that person.

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Here is your evidence that crying is about signaling, and about getting others to do your bidding (be that offer comfort, or something else): women have larger tear ducts than men. That's right, women are biologically designed to cry in a way that men are not. This is because there are white knights for women to summon - always have been, always will be. Men, not so much, hence the reduced tear duct size.

This all makes sense, really. If you are a man, almost nobody gives a fuck about your emotional state. There is no point in signaling it. You are disposable, like all adult males (and to some extent, male children.) There are no white knights for you, nobody concerned about your fee fees, nobody focused on making you feel better. That is offered to women and children; it is not given to men. Feminists are no different in this regard; in fact, they are more brutal and vicious in this regard than sane women.

The differential regard for the feelings and fate of men as opposed to women is sometimes also referred to as the empathy gap. If you are a grownup and have a penis, nobody has any empathy for your plight, so there is no cavalry coming over the hill, no white knight inbound to rescue you. You are on your own.

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So morally yes, men should cry more, because more fucks should be given about men. But that moral judgement flies in the face of our evolved biology, rendering it a meaningless question.

franklindeer · 2016-08-03T01:31:21+00:00

Has anyone considered that men maybe just cry less than women and express their emotions through different, but equally healthy outlets. I don't think we should discourage crying, but it's very female-centric to assume that men should responds exactly the way women do to everything.

WaitingToBeBanned · 2016-08-02T19:45:19+00:00

Women should cry and scream less. As it stands I have no idea if the crying and screaming I hear outside is from my neighbour being raped or just her kids playing.

Title	Should Men Cry More?
Author	_SnNNeKerz
Upvotes	0
Comments	6
Date	August 2, 2016 7:16 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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