Little boys are allowed to cry - but not men?

Poll: Are weeping men embarrassed??

07/06/2014

„An indian knows no pain“ or „Men do not cry“Such macho slogans are widespread. But not only now, while at the World Cup almost daily crying football stars are seen, many people find: Even men are allowed to shed tears.

Public crying does not belong to half of the men
Eliminated after a penalty shoot-out or because of an injury: Currently, many football stars are seen with tears in the eyes during the World Cup. But more than half of German men say that male adults do not care to cry in public. This is the conclusion of a representative survey conducted by GfK Marktforschung Nürnberg with 1,013 women and 973 men, ages 14+, on behalf of the „pharmacy magazine“. 54.5 percent of the men interviewed would therefore have shared this view. For women, the proportion was 25.9 percent.

Men are taught early to show no feelings
„Especially embarrassing“ 45.8 percent of men and 22.0 percent of women would feel men shedding tears. Only 28.0 percent of male respondents do not mind crying in the presence of others. For women, this is 57.0 percent. The negative attitude towards tears could be due to earlier education. At 36.9 percent, more than one in three male respondents stated that even as a child, he was taught not to show his feelings as much as possible. In the case of women, this was 22.4 percent, and among the 50-year-old men, it was even 48.0 percent, almost half of them. According to the figures, men were more tolerant of tears shed by boys. These are likely to cry the same as girls, according to the survey found 78 percent of men and 92.5 percent of women.

Tears promote health
If men were to say goodbye to their macho ideas and set an example to their soccer-playing mates, who increasingly express their emotions through tears, they could also do something good for their health. Tears release tensions, reduce stress and flush harmful substances out of the body, as the German Green Cross in Marburg reported last year. According to the experts, sadness, anger or jealousy in the body release certain proteins that can literally make you sick in too much. These substances can be washed out of the body while crying. In addition, people who never let their feelings go and reduce frustration, grief and aggression would increase their risk of headaches, migraines, indigestion and heart disease. (Ad)