Do men have "emotions"?

It seems to me that women are more emotional and more into spekaing they're minds and also they seem to be able to show emotions more than men.

Is it because men are affraid to cry, or show any sort of emotion including love, because they find it weak?

or is it because men are suppose to be the stronger willed sex?

because the way i see it, if men are affraid to cry or show any sort of emotion then they are the weaker sex!!

for example i am not affraid to say this:

Now I cannot speak, I lost my voice
Speechless and redundant
'Cause I love you's not enough
I'm lost for words.

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thats for a particular person! why can't men say things like that?

 

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[IF]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!


--Rudyard Kipling

 

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Only if they are evil: see Joker

Not if they are Real Men [sup]TM[/sup] : see Batman

 

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Not being afraid to recite greenday lyrics in public is just dangerously retarded.
You should be strapped to a gurney and electro-shocked untill you become normal or dead, whichever comes first.

 

i'd probably enjoy that

 

God you're a stupid fucking pig. Yes, men have emotions. They're just not as emotional as women tend to be. It's because we have different brains.

 

Yes.

I'm not afraid to cry, it's just I hardly ever feel the need.

 

I Can get quite emotional sometimes espicially when tis a dodgey situation concerning close members of the family

 

god your a fucking half witted asshat

 

Men don't cry openly, because after a certain age they've been taught that it makes you a weakling and effeminate.

Though I'm a hypocrite for saying that. I refuse to cry. I hate the experience of crying. I don't have the right to use the metaphor, but it's like...self inflicted rape.

Me neither. I'm more likely to go into extreme rage and punch something, or just sit around thinking morose thoughts. Or write some fucked up lyrics.

 

Most of the best poems were written by men.

 

I'll go with that. No one beats Assadullah Khan "Ghalib".

Although Yeats comes close:

"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"

But Emily Dickinson wasn't too bad.

 

AMEN !

Appoint that man Surgeon General !

 

What?
Maya Angelou anyone??

 

Because when you express those emotions you become weak and vulnerable, since you let the other person have control over the situation, whatever he/she responds to your emotion is directly the consequence of what will happen next. Let's say that you for the first time tells a woman you are in love with her, what she says next surely will either leave you with a painful mark or will lead you to a nice situation, the odds aren't always that simple so you never know for sure (which is often what emotions are all about - an expression of the unknowable), most people, including women will have some fear of loosing control, therefor also the fear of letting someone else handle the control over the situation. But if you don't dare, you won't win either.

And yes, men do have emotions. I'm a man and I have them.

 

Men have emotions. We've just been taught that hiding emotions to the point of callousness is a virtue.

 

Ah, but that's because women have been considered too emotional and irrational to be poets through most of history. They simply weren't considered smart or deep enough to write poetry well.

 

Well, said.
The evasion of being called faggot or pussy - ie. like a woman - has its affects (ha, ha).

 

Obviously men have emotions, or they would not be highly sexual, aggressive, or feel the need to prove their manhood by doing things that range from daring to extremely stupid.

 

I don't think emotion is required to be highly sexual, aggressive, or feeling the need to prove one's manhood. I doubt that rutting pigs, or mating moose, feel "emotion" as we would recognize.