Men Crying in Public
I’ll take a break from writing about art and deal with something that seems to crop up at least once per year: Men crying in public. In this case, the instigator is a woman complaining about a man crying on his wedding day: Once again, the typical response is to state that men should be able to cry or that a woman ought not to say what is and is not manly. Both of these miss the point, which is that our public behavior is subject to judgment by both women and men, and the reality is that it is…