Ok, judging by the title, some of U may know what I am refering to:

People have now been making fun of Terell Owens..because of his display emotions....

do u think it would have been ok for to cry off the cameras?
but on TV it is abit embarassing?

and generally, what are your views on men crying..?

personally...i think it's ok, for a guy 2 show his emotions..(in the right time/place)

As a woman it does not bother me if a man crys, if anything i prefer sensitive males ie metrosexuals as oppose to aggressive alpha kinds

What the hell is a metrosexual. Never quite understood the term. Is it someone who has sex on the tube. Is it a sexual being who only resides in metropolitian areas? Sounds like some funny guy business to me..

"The thing about most crying is that it is usually born of self-pity. Some people are empathetic enough to weep on others’ behalf - starving people in Darfur, say, or (more commonly in Britain) broken old donkeys that people have been mean to. Some people cry because their heart is broken, which seems fair enough. But the majority of tears are shed selfishly: they’re shed because you think, a terrible thing has happened to me and it is making me very sad, whether the terrible thing is bad news, or someone’s death, or being passed over for promotion. We don’t cry because someone has died: we cry because we’ll miss them and it’s going to be very miserable for us.

We know this, which is why we view crying with suspicion: the person weeping is, more often than not, unable to control self-pity, and is putting it on display in quite a demanding way (because it forces us to react, whether we feel like it or not). You feel sorry for them, but it can also be slightly repulsive if the occasion doesn’t warrant a torrent of tears – if someone is hysterical, for instance, because X hasn’t phoned. "

India Knight - Sunday Times Jan 08


I don't personally feel sport warrants tears. To start crying because somebody insults your friend isn't acceptable, I don't care if you're a man, woman or 10 year old girl scout. Sheeet I would be suspicious of a dude who cried because he was insulted, let alone crying on a friends behalf.

As to your wider question about men crying, it all depends on the context imo. As that quote I posted opined, most crying is to elicit a certain response from your observers and I can't take that emotionally manipulative approach from anybody. Wether it's calculated or a result of poor self control it's not a thing to be admired.

if anything i prefer sensitive males ie metrosexuals as oppose to aggressive alpha kinds
I get it this is where you get to live out your fantasy that of being a man...metrosexual men is just an excuse for bi-curious men ..well if ever you need some proper drilling holla!!
Of course men do cry when you lose someone close and remember them it just comes from nowhere...but wouldn't cry over some stupid sports like US football

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! Sorry but that was funny as ****!!!!

Of course it's alright for a man to cry if he's grieving, lost a job, develops a serious illness or what have you, but crying over something like that is just pathetic I mean come on!!

I know a dude who is the male equivalent of that annoying girl in the film Baby Boy - no bullshit!!! Everything with my man is water works. I swear they need to move him to a country where they have drought too raasclaat.

I remember when we were younger and he cried about getting a bad grade on of his college assignments. He was telling me about it then all of a sudden he let out this big piece of bawling and me and my girlfriend at the time tried so hard to hold the laughter in we both had to give him a quick hug so he wouldn't notice it LMAO. That was the funniest day ever.

I can cry for emotional and sentimental things - man I remember drawing tears when I forgot to withdraw using the withdrawal method - the thought of stopping the girls life with a baby just made me feel evil.

But then it can also be for silly things, the last I remember was being late for work experience.

I go through this phase which I haven't quite worked out the frequency but this wave of emotion just hits me and I start crying for no reason. It lasts about 2 minutes and that's it for another ten years maybe..maybe I've grown out of that one now.

But then I have also experienced emotions where I feel like I want to cry to aide relief but I've been so numb the tears just wouldn't fall.

I still wonder if I ever had to attend a funeral of an immediate family member which strain of emotion will get me and I haven't ruled out the possibility that it could be something different altogether, see emotions you never even knew you had come to the fore - I have this thought that brothas and sistas who have gone grey have had a similar journey of self discovery


But as for the last time i clearly rememebr was the first time my son was ill and the family hadn't yet moved in together, just being at that distance, me in south London him in north, that feeling of helplessness was overpowering.

But the most recent time was about two weeks ago. I watched Hotel Rwanda for the very first time and seeing the black people killing each other really done me in. Well it wasn't a boo hoo cry, more a serious welling up of the eyes, the same way they did when watching ET say goodbye to Elliot LOL. Man since I had children!!

But I work at extremes, if that's my sentimental side, my cold side is cold. To the degree I believe it's why I hold much values, I'd hate to live the unerworld life for anyone, there wouldn't be a line for me to draw. Once I flip I flip - man these punks and babymammas don't know who they're playing wid

Personally I find it disgusting. Then again I find all public displays of emotion disgusting. Most people haven't even come close to real despair, so the petty reasons people have for crying......well, it's been said already.

I guess since most lads act like little girls thesedays it's probably seen as abnormal not to cry..

It's not really a biggy 4 me is a man cries(depending on the reason)..

a wedding, that is ok....i saw a groom cry at his own wedding, when the preist said:"repeat after me..."the groom could hardly get the words out...lol#

society has installed a notion is many people that men shouldn't cry...
but like i said:It's not really a biggy 4 me is a man cries(depending on the reason)..

I have a problem with men or women who cry over minor stuff. Some folks cry when the toast pops up too early. You feel like saying "get a phucking grip....". Appropriate crying in a man, is fine with me as long as its' not happening all the time,(a man whining and bitching annoys me more than a man who cries when there is something legitimate to cry about). Men who DON'T cry in certain, appropriate situations, are strange to me, and good candidates for the insane asylum or for ending up on a roof with a shotgun, down the line. Having said that though, it's hard for me to watch a grown man really blubbering, with the lip quivering and all of that. It's too much(maybe it's because I rarely if ever do THAT, and I'm a woman,lol). I can deal with the silent, "i'm a strong man and I'm doing my damndest to fight back the tears" type of crying.

Terrell's crying was annoying to me because I'm a Cowboys fan, and I'm certain that the reason he was crying was because he knows that he and his team just squandered a superb season(due to overconfidence),, in which they had the inside track to the Superbowl. Things may not play out like that again, and i'm sure he knows that. I don't think he was really crying because of unfair criticism of Romo, though he was correct in saying that the Romo did not cause them to lose. They ALL played badly, except for Terrell, oddly enough, and he was playing injured.

Hey crying isn't even about emotions or sensitivity, it's what separates us from animals