Men don't cry. Men are not supposed to cry. We have built that perception towards men that weak men cry or we laugh and comment “stop acting like a girl, be a man; man doesn't cry”. If women have their limits, so do men. We live in an environment where men are portrayed as strong and emotionless. We are so much living in the feminist world that we tend to ignore how men feel and what they go through. Not to show emotions, is the part assigned to men by our society.

Men and women are assigned with the same emotional range, but men gradually start to neutralize their feelings. Somewhat girls are allowed to cry out their feelings or frustration but boys aren't. The day we are born, we have been told that boys don't cry as it doesn't look good but somehow for some weird reason girls are allowed to cry whenever they want, wherever they wish.

People need to understand that crying is a way to express one's feeling, to loosen yourself with the burden one is carrying, to feel good that it's okay to not be okay in fact in someway crying makes you stronger and help you to let go of things which are hurting you from inside. We unintentionally have asked men to bottle up their feelings and just move on with the baggage of not being expressive.

“If you want to cry go ahead. Son, there are just some time in a man's life when he has to let it out” - Rachel Gibson

Crying necessarily doesn't mean that you are hurt, it can be because of the sheer you feel with someone. When a man cries, he is setting up an example in the house to be expressive and moreover to be sensitive. It is important for men to vent out their frustrations and anger by crying and it's absolutely fine to have an emotional breakdown.

Guys, it's okay to cry, it's okay to put your guards down and express, it's okay to be sensitive and it's absolutely okay to put your heart out. The NHS stated that “ The highest suicide rate among men is aged between 40 to 44”, clearly showing the men's mental health too is as important as women's. Everyone talks about equality for women, and what about emotional equality for men?