Trying to avoid gender stereotypes in the workplace or resist being suppressed by conservative social norms, people usually forget to make relationships in their family free from the bias. Teaching kids to treat male and female peers equally, parents still require them to conform the traditional notions according to what is admissible for their gender. Many adults still insist that girls shall play with dolls instead of making an imaginary fray and boys need to spend more time with an erector set. Even more strange is teaching children to mute their genuine feelings the expression of which is considered to be inappropriate to their sex.
In most modern societies crying men happen rather seldom. Evidently, most of them were ashamed of exposing tears in the childhood and treat this rule as a must. Being an image of a protector who can put all sentiments behind, a man just cannot cast a glimpse of their weakness. Besides, averseness to tears underlines the tough masculine nature and distinction between men and women. But is crying really as feminine as we used to treat it?
Biologically, it is natural for all people to cry when they feel desperate or extremely humiliated. Even if it does not fit into social and gender roles, a cry is a natural response of a human organism to the outer stressors. The only difference is that, in general, women are more predisposed to mood swings than men due to the fluctuation of chemical interchange in their body. But still, the society shall accept that men are not super-humans unfamiliar with pity and compassion. If a person feels their nerves ready to explode, it is always useful for them to hole up and have a good cry irrespective of their sex.