
It’s not about being “allowed” to do something, it’s about how people perceive us after we do. If you spent a semester showing up to class dressed nicely with a full face of makeup and then suddenly one day roll in, in PJ’s and bed head with no makeup. People are gonna suddenly have a different opinion of you too. It’s about being unable to put the magical illusion that men are invulnerable to everything, back in the jar once it’s been opened.
So as a woman reading this, I read it in a negative way. I think that it’s just over all pretty gross that the two thoughts are in the same place. To bring an emotionally healthy man and the others who do horrible things as a justification for human emotion? Not offended, just really makes me sad that this is poor excuse for a pass to cry because there’s so many worse things than that.
There’s much worse things than crying but if men are more scared to cry than they are to assault or harass girls that says something about the men that are afraid to do so, not the post itself. Emotions are a very normal reaction. Harm is a choice. Ofc you can choose to cry or not but harm shouldn’t be more normalized or seen more than dehumanizing and demasculinizing a human emotion everyone has
It’s tears coming from your face there is no system for that but a societal masculinity thing that other men created for themselves. I promise no one cares about you crying that much compared to women’s assault. I’d think it would be much weirder if men didn’t cry bc it shows you won’t channel serious emotions