An interesting thought...

At youthtrain today an interesting question came to my mind.
We were talking about allowing a person to freely express an emotion. As a male i know that guys tend to harden up at a young age and refuse to cry when they feel hurt. This later leads to almost an inability to cry (unless of course watching chick flicks [inside joke]) and so males are not used to crying at all over emotions. Yes sometimes an extreme emotion will cause years of held up tears to stream out of one's eyes (i've yet to find my moment). In the world today, crying for a male is seen as a sign of weakness. Of course i totally disagree, i think crying demands the best of a man, the humility to expose himself entirely, the ability to be moved by emotions he is not afraid to express, or if he does fear his expression then to risk what he fears and cry anyway.

But the interesting question that came to mind was simply this:
Why is it that girls do not (or rarely ever do) cry infront of guys?

Crying is not seen as a weakness in girls in our society today. Girls aren't afraid to tell a male they have cried, but coming to actually crying infront of them is a totally different issue. Yes crying is still a way of exposing yourself, but why is it so easy to expose yourself to a good female friend but not a good male friend? Just a thought, just another of life's questions that comes without an answer.