I've been saying for awhile that we need to work against the stigma of crying. Sure, sobbing because your idea isn't chosen at the office probably isn't going

I've been saying for awhile that we need to work against the stigma of crying. Sure, sobbing because your idea isn't chosen at the office probably isn't going to get you anywhere but that's not what I'm talking about. When we're sad, we should allow ourselves and each other the space to be sad and if that means crying then we should do so. Replace "crying" with "pooping" and see how senseless the stigma becomes. You don't need to do it in public but only bad things happen when you try to prevent it. It's a perfectly normal physiological process. What makes the stigma even more odd is that we accept it when we see a strong male character crying in a movie or on TV. On the surface it was absurd when Tom Hanks was crying over losing "Wilson" yet we understood it, and related to it. In his isolation-induced mental state, he had lost a loved one. There was no shame in that. Would we think the same if our co-worker choked up when describing how his cat had just died?