Men: How do you feel & react when you see women cry?

[Carl-Richard]

22 minutes ago, Monster Energy said:

I’m not a pervert. Please apologize. That’s not fair.

This sentence combined with the profile pic is just comedic gold.

[meta_male]

37 minutes ago, yetineti said:

That’s sounds inappropriate, very sexual if you ask me

I tried 🤷🏻‍♂️ my door is open.

[Carl-Richard]

Can we not litter the thread with poo? >.<

[yetineti]

Aesop’s “The Wolf and the Lamb.”

A wolf wanted to eat a lamb drinking downstream. But he wanted an excuse.

He accused the lamb of muddying his water.

The lamb explained that water flowed from the wolf toward her. She couldn’t muddy anything upstream.

The wolf changed accusations: she had insulted him last year.

The lamb explained she hadn’t been born then.

Then it must have been her brother, the wolf insisted.

She had no brother.

Finally, the wolf blamed someone in her family and ate her anyway.

[Emull]

15 hours ago, yetineti said:

I’d be curious how the men here feel and react when they cry.

In my opinion, crying is a masculine trait to have as a man regardless of intent.
A strong man doesn't care to be perceived as weak for crying like a crybaby.
Only a man who needs his ego validated by a woman wouldn't cry at all.

The intent can be authentic vulnerability 
or shedding fake tears in order to manipulate the woman.

A truly strong man wouldn't care to be perceived as strong or weak by women. Ego reduced to absolute zero.

[Sincerity]

Stop derailing the thread. Especially with obnoxiously sexual posts.

[yetineti]

10 minutes ago, Sincerity said:

Stop derailing the thread. Especially with obnoxiously sexual posts.

 you gave the attention they really wanted. I’m usually just an appetizer/bait. They can rest for now but do not be mistaken, they’ll be back.

Edited 4 hours ago by yetineti

[yetineti]

16 minutes ago, Emull said:

In my opinion, crying is a masculine trait to have as a man regardless of intent.
A strong man doesn't care to be perceived as weak for crying like a crybaby.
Only a man who needs his ego validated by a woman wouldn't cry at all.

The intent can be authentic vulnerability 
or shedding fake tears in order to manipulate the woman.

A truly strong man wouldn't care to be perceived as strong or weak by women. Ego reduced to absolute zero.

Yes, I agree.

As a man, I didn’t believe this for the longest time until the strongest man I knew collapsed in my arms, bawling.

I had never seen him cry. And I realized his greatest strength was also his greatest weakness.

Edited 4 hours ago by yetineti

[Sincerity]

On 11/10/2026 at 4:18 AM, Natasha Tori Maru said:

What emotions / feelings come up for you? Sympathy, heartbreak, disgust, sadness, pity etc

So you feel compelled to action? 

Sympathy. Urge to hug, comfort.

I’m very comfortable around crying because I cry pretty much every day, sometimes a few times even. Crying has lost the taboo for me, it’s run-of-the-mill, not very big/shocking/impactful. So when I see someone cry I’m not very shocked/impressed, but I do feel sympathetic of course, and the urge to comfort/give love arises.

[Sincerity]

4 minutes ago, yetineti said:

They can rest for now but do not be mistaken, they’ll be back.

Enough warning points and they won’t be. Some just don’t learn.

[yetineti]

If I was a mod there’d be a lot more ‘timeouts.’

A lot of Leo asking ‘where did so and so go’ and me responding ‘they’ll be back in 72 hours, I transferred them to a ghost forum and they haven’t figured it out yet.’

Boop—bring ya back. ‘See how silly all that was? Wouldn’t you rather stay in the real forum?’

There’d be a little trauma… but respect too. I have babysat a good amount of kids and they are remarkably okay despite my best intentions.

Sometimes they want the timeout. Sometimes you just give them what they want. Sometimes they don’t want it anymore, you remind them that actually—they kind of did.

Boop. All better! Looks who is not being a perv on the forum anymore!

 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

3 minutes ago, yetineti said:

If I was a mod there’d be a lot more ‘timeouts.’

What makes you think there aren't?

Timeouts are common for certain types of users.

[Sincerity]

9 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

What makes you think there aren't?

Timeouts are common for certain types of users.

He doesn’t know because he was never warned. So pure. 🥹

Edited 4 hours ago by Sincerity

[Natasha Tori Maru]

7 minutes ago, Sincerity said:

He doesn’t know because he was never warned. So pure. 🥹

A moderators dreamboat

[yetineti]

2 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

What makes you think there aren't?

Timeouts are common for certain types of users.