The Noble Art of the Manly Cry

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October 7, 2015

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The Noble Art of the Manly Cry

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -

The Noble Art of the Manly Cry

One of our most firmly entrenched ideas of masculinity is that men don't cry. But historical and literary evidence suggests that, in the past, male weeping was regarded as normal in almost every part of the world for most of recorded history. Consider Homer's Iliad, in which the entire Greek army bursts into unanimous tears no less than three times... { read more }

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Ask yourself why the quality of feeling awakened by music or poetry or sad news of a loved one that brings us to tears should be limited by a gender.


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