Do women cry?

[10gr8kids]

Oh my! This sounds so familiar.

When I was young I hardly ever cried; from teenager to early 20’s. I can even remember telling my husband, then boyfriend, he would never see me cry! Hahaha

Now, I’m always wailing! Sometimes I don’t even know why! Did anyone read the story mdgspencer linked to yesterday about the family caught in the rip current? I was reading it out loud to my family and had to keep stopping to get my tears under control!

My apologies, it was myhathaswords who posted the story I spoke of.

 

[KiwiBliss]

I was tempted to ask this question the “Do men cry” topic since it seems to be yet another example of people assuming “All men are the same when it comes to…”

It also seems many of the people responding there assume that all women cry at the drop of a hat and are comfortable doing so in public.

Yet, I personally rarely cry. Some sad movies and books do inspire tears to well up in me, though. Though ironically, when I was a child I did indeed cry over very minor things. Not sure what happened to me along the way.

I think there is also a big cultural aspect to this. There are cultures where it is acceptable for both men and women to be open with their emotions, where it’s acceptable for mourners at funerals to be literally rolling on the floor in tears overcome with grief, etc. But that is not really considered “the done thing” in the US.

Because we are all unique and not the same, it varies between person to person. Everyone reacts differently to experiences of all kinds. It is God that touches and heals our souls diversely to hopefully draw us closer to Him however He speaks to us. I am an emotional person to the point of crying in tears after watching an inspirational film, whereas a friend is touched by a word or action internally without feeling the need to cry… again, we are all touched/moved uniquely for Jesus to influence our lives for the better, and that’s okay. My family can cry easily during funerals, but for me, I just don’t perhaps because I trust that the person will go to Heaven but mostly because it hasn’t sunk in with me yet until after the experience… its better to react to something naturally than do what everyone else does to fit in. It is likely that those phrases consisting of “do all men cry” or “do all women cry” are just generalizations of particular cultures (such as USA & others) that don’t typically accept men crying for unnecessary reasons… irrelevant reasons to be honest. Yet despite people’s opinions of others reacting the way that we all do uniquely, I can only imagine what Jesus experienced among the Sorrowful Mysteries (such as the Agony in the Garden, Scourging at the Pillar, Crowning of Thorns, Carrying of the Cross, & Crucifixion) to save our souls from the corruptions of evil. As Jesus being the Way, the Truth, & the Life, there is no other source worthy to follow than His, this includes worldly outlooks on life itself.

 

[Athanasiy]

I remember from my youth the meetings of the separated Pentecostals who were not part of any unions.
During the collapse of communism, the life of an ordinary citizen was economicly heavy, believers with small salaries had to feed the large families, and solidarity with each other helped not to loose the heart.
The independent Pentecostals gathered in the houses of prayer (The usual spacious house where a large family lived was able to serve as a church.) The prayers were very emotional.
It was considered a normal phenomenon to cry in prayer before the Lord.
So I think that The Hot in Spirit Pentecostal would have answered this question in such a way:
“If a man cries, he cries only before the Lord!”