Man tears

[Les Biehn]

Now I rarely ever cry, in fact past girlfriends have even suggested there may be something wrong with me because I cry so little.

However the last week of my life has been so stressful I have nearly cried a few times. I haven't but it has been close.

So I put it to NSC, do you think men should cry more and does it make them a bit wimpy if they do. I think it's ok for men to cry but only at rare times of extreme stress or trauma. Opinions please

 

[British Bulldog]

I dont know about crying but I had tears in my eye's last night when a doctor shoved his finger up my arse!

 

[n1 gull]

Crying is well gay

 

[Les Biehn]

I dont know about crying but I had tears in my eye's last night when a doctor shoved his finger up my arse!

They always do that down the Dukes Mound Surgery.

 

[Kylies Stunt Arse]

I reckon...

Acceptable:
When told of the death/terminal illness of a loved one
Funeral of same
In extreme pain
Chopping onions

Borderline:
After breaking up a relationship
Own wedding

Totally unacceptable:
Other peoples weddings
During/after watching films.

 

[British Bulldog]

They always do that down the Dukes Mound Surgery.

I'm still not sure if the tears were through pain, embarresment or the fact I no longer feel like a bottom virgin?

 

[steward 433]

When my little boy was born!

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

A manly tear wiped angrily wiped away with a grease streaked hand is fine, and even gets the ladies bartholins glands a pumpin'

Shrieking with your head tilted back and mouth wide open and your hands beating the table is considered less acceptable

 

[Easy 10]

What about when your team get relegated, and you KNOW the Sky cameras are there ? Always worth a blub, you could be on the SSN roundups for a week.

 

[pasty]

Acceptable

Doncaster at The Goldstone
Hereford
Wembley 1983
World Cup Semi Final 1990

 

[antpope]

What about when your team get relegated, and you KNOW the Sky cameras are there ? Always worth a blub, you could be on the SSN roundups for a week.

Or in the paper the next morning

 

[Les Biehn]

I reckon...

Acceptable:
When told of the death/terminal illness of a loved one
Funeral of same
In extreme pain
Chopping onions

Borderline:
After breaking up a relationship
Own wedding

Totally unacceptable:
Other peoples weddings
During/after watching films.

I would go along with that. The only times I have cried pretty much as an adult are when relationships have gone tits up and when my sister gave birth to my niece. However I didn't cry at the magical site of this newborn clan member it was more because it was her first kid and I was really worried about her.

 

[Captain Haddock]

Acceptable

Doncaster at The Goldstone
Hereford
Wembley 1983
World Cup Semi Final 1990

And Match Day 1 at "The Seagull's Nest" at Falmer circa August 2010 (or 2023 if you are Arthur!)

 

[Peter Grummit]

I WEPT when we stayed up against Ipswich the other year when McGhee did his walk round the pitch. It was the sheer relief after the stress of the relegation battle.

It's good to cry, shows you care!

(warning: new man alert)

PG

 

[Man of Harveys]

SURELY during or after self-abuse? Or is that just m...whoops sorry

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I cried like a baby when my marriage failed for quite a few weeks.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Crying during self abuse...god that has left me mentally scarred! all I can see in my mind is Andy Warhol in a brighton shirt weeping as the pulls his pud..
*shudder*

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

I cried like a baby when my marriage failed for quite a few weeks.

Must admit I went through the mill with all that too, although I don't remember crying too much, which tells me I did the right thing.

 

[British Bulldog]

I cried like a baby when my marriage failed for quite a few weeks.

I felt like crying when my divorce settlement was finalised and I realised how much pension I was losing.

 

[Meade's Ball]

It's obviously something of extreme torment that can bring a tear to the eye, but it's incredibly painful to not be able to cry too. I have been begging for a cry for about 2 years now. The last time i had one was on my birthday, sat on a bench surrounded by builders building and guffawing dirtily and spreading dust from dropped slabs of concrete around the neighbourhood. Still in an excessively immature, stroppy fashion i felt hideously cheated and burgled from all the things i knew, and in that feeling knew no one else either understood or could see the scabs, scars and warts that capped my brain. I sat down in that noise and common thuggery and burst loudly into tears guessing no one would spot me or hear. And they didn't. It confirmed lightly that i didn't exist, and that was ok.
Since then in times of abject loss and burning-browed disappointment i beg to have a giant weep and let all this frustration out in one. No such "luck" yet. One day, though, i tell myself, half-hoping a dog i dreamt i used to love soon passes having licked itself literally to death.

Sorry to read things have been so torturous for you Les. Anyone there for an occasional hold and manly pat on the back?