What do you think of blokes who show their emotion?

Zefan said:
Drunk/with close friends is fair enough.

Randomly with strangers (not including OcUK peeps as I love talking to you guys late at night on MSN about stuff like this), it's weird.
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Thats when i tend to do it. I seem to love everybody and get emotional about my past,its a hit with the ladies though. :confused:

Usually results in AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW and cuddles and so on
 
Dont see the need to emote (that a word?) If something gets me down or makes me feel hurt i just confront it and i usually destory it until im happy again though i dont show it. :)


Dont see the point of feeling sad or unhappy there are people in this world that are suffering a lot more than me so why should i have a moan about some petty **** thats happened to me.


Also showing your feelings make you weak in my opinoin.
 
I was never able to express my emotions until someone invented emoticons. Now I don't have to say anything. God bless emoticons!!! :):) :D :):)
 
Well I personally don't like it when someone I don't really know well (of either gender) just breaks down in front of me. It makes me feel very uncomfortable as quite honestly, I have no idea what I should do in those situations. It is ok with close friends and obviously, if you feel that you can't express your emotions to a partner then something is wrong somewhere imo. I don't see why it should be any different for men and women

Maybe I am somewhat biased as I am quite unemotional myself. Nothing to do with not wanting to be seen as weak, it just takes a lot to make me feel bad for more than a few minutes. Of course sometimes, I just need to get something off my chest which is usually done online on some forum somewhere thus completly contradicting what I said. Ho-hum
 
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escape sanity said:
Maybe I am somewhat biased as I am quite unemotional myself. Nothing to do with not wanting to be seen as weak
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The brain doesn't think in negatives. Ask yourself.

The exact reason I don't talk about my emotions is the above, although its also because I feel my emotions make me weak. They have made me **** up my relationships, made me burn people I care about and push people away. When I feel weak, I blame them - when I don't want to continue, I believe they are my adversary.

Yet something that I am more reluctant is that when I AM actually WEAK, it is also them that pick me up. My depression may slap me down, but my passion will make me get up and try harder. My love will make me defiant in the face of humiliation, and will stop me from quitting whenever each step is pain or when I have been exposed.

They need to be honoured and balanced.
 
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i had to struggle to contain my emotions today in sainburys today. I was well peed off.... moments from snapping i was.....jesus. i can laugh about it now but it was too close to call.......
 
If a guy cried on my shoulder I'd punch him straight in the face.

If a girl did it I'd grab her boob.




In all seriousness, it's fine. But when you say expressing emotions, do you mean crying specifically? Because getting angry/happy/etc aren't as inappropriate.
 
In general I think people have to get past the image of a man crying in order to see that a man can show his emotions, crying isn't the mark of an emotional man, there are many emotions. If a man does it in a film, he's practically guaranteed an oscar which does show how we are perceived.
 
I think showing emotion, within reasonable boundaries, marks someone as a person who ticks quite normally, whereas people who often talk about their feelings tend to be strange.
 
cleanbluesky said:
Go on...
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just stress from a few things getting me down lol met up with the ex-gf and shes all cold a completely different person (shes normally extremely friendly to even strangers off the street..all smiles etc).., shes wearing the t-shirt of the guy shes been seeing. Was just back from seeing all the family as well and thats stressful enough... into work and my boss is just so incredibly stupid at times (shes a woman...:( woman bosses = utter nightmare thats the gods honest truth)

it was the muppets in the queue in front of me adding all sort of crap to their shopping (1 stays and one rushes to go go go go get more food woo) so i end up clenching and unclenching my fists and rolling my head from side to side ... the 2 floor staff munckins standing jabbering away to each other while im fuming "hey im about a minute from just losing it completely w*****"

anyway im fine :)
 
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