I figured it out: Why men aren't supposed to cry: From a Biological and evolutionary standpoint.

This came to me very recently, during a very trying time for me.

The traditional reasoning is that men are supposed to be "tough guys, not sentimental, aggressive" and such, and that society has put those constraints on men. That's perfectly good reasoning. But when humans were more beast than man, would seeming like a pussy bother them? Would crying because you cut your toe embarass you in front of your hunting-party mates? Definitly not, since your hunting buddies were probably off killing and surviving. Which brings me to my main supportive argument as to why men are instictively less crybabyish.

I like to think of emotions as in two categories: active and passive. I differentiate emotions into these categories by a simple method: do these emotions evoke a passive/retroactive (something that inflects upon oneself or accomplishes nothing) reaction or an aggressive/active (something that projects out, causes effects or events) one? So I put my theory to test first by seeing if I could actually divide some basic emotions and human feelings. Passive: Sadness, worry, depression. Active: Anger, frustration, elation.

My main focus is really sadness and anger, since they are probably the two hardest and most violent of all human emotion.
Crying is the main output of sadness. What does crying get you? Not food, not vengeance, not justice, nothing. It is empty. But it is unavoidable. If your cat dies, or your dad, or you break-up with a loved one, you will be sad; I would be sad. But that doesn't unjustify that it's pointless to be sad. Worrying is also pointless. Worrying = stress, and stress gives you bellyaches, heart-conditions, and sore backs, and nothing useful. Depression, well, we know where that leads.

So that brings us to anger, frustration, and elation. Anger and frustration are great emotions to bring action. When was the last time you saw someone who was angry sitting calmly? Never. I know when I'm angry, I need to do something, and it is clear that sitting around definitly doesn't help clear anger. Frustration may cause hasty action, but it is indeed action. Elation, extreme happiness, even over-joyedness, can make one confident (or overconfident) in their abilities, and will certainly produce more action to continue to prove one's worth. Maybe I'm attributing elation more with zeal than anything else, but I also keep thinking of manic-depression syndrome, wherein the mania stage usually brings about seemingly extreme happiness, even giddiness, and massive spells of extreme and crazed action. The depression stage usually produces sluggishness, lack of any will to do anything, and obviously suicidal tendencies.

Add in the fact that the human brain naturally converts sadness into anger, and you have the solution.

Nature definitely and certainly knows that sadness is unproductive, and in the ancient times when men did the hard physical and grueling work, unproductiveness made you dead, so nature weeded out the pussies and crybabies.

Everything is clear in my head, I doubt any of this makes sense. I apologize in advance if there are huge gaps. Address them in comments.

booo

booo

boooo

school starts wednesday. i'm sad.

my schedule is messed up. but i have a parking spot. i'm still sad.

this is really not bitchin' at all.


no you didn't tyler.

obviously.