> Most everyone will view crying as acceptable in some circumstance. Whether it’s death or a child, or loss of money, or deep frustration, everyone has a limit

> Most everyone will view crying as acceptable in some circumstance. Whether it’s death or a child, or loss of money, or deep frustration, everyone has a limit above which they consider the trauma a reason to cry. And, as a flagged comment mentions, what we should be doing here is not so much as work shouldn't be a place that induces crying. As for outside circumstances leaking in, sure, that happens, and it will continue to happen as long as workers are humans and not robots. Spouse got a terminal diagnosis? Totally okay to cry. Traumatized by bosses, coworkers, customers, _etc._? No, that shouldn't be happening. Using tears to emotionally manipulate people? That double shouldn't be happening. I don't know where losing sports teams fall on this continuum, but I'd rather not deal with tears in the workplace because some people I don't personally know didn't score enough points in a game. This is not a men vs women issue, although I believe it's at least willfully ignorant to think that men and women can "get away with" crying in the same circumstances and at the same frequency. I have no idea if the author didn't suffer from his crying at work because of white male privilege or not, but, work is work, a business relationship, and crying is not conducive to maintaining a business relationship, IMO.