Jezebel: Crying

Mom With Crying Baby Unwisely Uses the Emergency Exit to Get Off the Plane Faster

Cassie Murdoch — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:15:00 EST

There is nothing that makes you more desperate to escape the claustrophobic confines of an airplane than a screaming child. It can certainly feel like an emergency when one is in the vicinity, but one woman in Vietnam got a little carried away with the urgency of the situation. Her child was screaming and she wanted out, so she asked the man next to her to open the emergency exit door, and he did! Luckily, the plane was on the tarmac, not in mid-flight. Instead of making a sassy exit via the inflatable slide—a la that Jet Blue flight attendant a few years back—the mother and her child didn't leave the plane, either because she had second thoughts or because the cabin crew stopped them. It's not clear which. Either way, that must have been a very awkward scene, not to mention it probably took her far longer to deplane than it ever would have to start with. Now the guy who opened the door is the one getting fined $950, and it's going to cost $10,000 to refit the slide. It's true he should have known better, but she'd better chip in since she was the one that asked to make a quick escape in the first place. More »

The Art and Science of Crying at Work

Anna North — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:30:00 EST

Sometimes, work sucks. Sometimes it sucks so much that you cry. However, showing vulnerability in front of your coworkers can potentially make work suck even more. This week, we offer tips on how to avoid that. More »

The Real Reason Adele's 'Someone Like You' Makes Us Weep

Cassie Murdoch — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST

Guys Let Loose About Their Tears

Anna North — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:00:00 EST

Welcome back to Guysourcing, where a panel of helpful gentlemen answer your questions! This week, at the request of a reader, we asked guys, "do you ever cry, and if so, what makes you cry? When/where is it okay for you to cry? When/where is it definitely not okay? How does crying make you feel and how do you deal with it?" Below, they respond. More »

How To Disguise The Fact That You Are Exhausted

Erin Gloria Ryan — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:30:00 EST

Whether you were up late watching internet videos of corgis on treadmills or you spent the last hour crying hysterically over your student loan balance, there are times when you're going to have to be somewhere after a series of decisions or circumstances have led to your face looking like it's having an allergic reaction to life. But just because you feel like shit doesn't mean that you have to look like shit. Let's MacGyver our way into looking non-exhausted, together. More »

Even Adele's Tour Rider Is A Tear-Jerker

Erin Gloria Ryan — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:30:00 EST

A copy of temporarily sidelined songstress Adele's tour rider is making the rounds, and from it, it seems as though she's a woman of excellent backstage taste— small plates of individually wrapped sandwiches, high quality beer, bite sized chocolate bars, and cash donations to a charity that helps people cope with the loss of a baby. Sweet lovesick Christ on an old fashioned microphone, is there any way in which this woman isn't likable? More »

The Adele Moment That Articulates Everything In Your Soul

Jessica Coen — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:55:00 EST

In addition to "Let's Make Technology Hump," this weekend's SNL featured a sketch that simply cannot go without comment and/or recognition. In four very special minutes that are, as of now, otherwise unavailable online, we've got chicken wings, sobbing, pints of ice cream, parakeets, smeared mascara, Friday Night Lights, and Adele's "Someone Like You." If you've ever listened to sob-friendly music to help wring every last tear out of your heaving soul — and who hasn't? (1995 h/t Sarah McLachlan) — this will speak to you. Like many great comedic moments, it's funny because it's all too true. When it comes to weepy wallowing, stereotypes are there for a reason. And that's okay. Let it all out. More »

Adorable Girl Freaks Out When Her Disney Dream Comes True

Cassie Murdoch — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:30:00 EDT

Researchers Claim Crying Doesn't Make You Feel Better But What Do They Know? Sniff.

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:45:00 EDT

One of the best philosophies to live by comes from Shrek, who belches and declares, "Better out than in, I always say." When it comes to emotions, they always feel better out than in. Sad? Mad? Feeling bad? Write about it, talk about it, cry it out. Except a new study says: Not so fast. More »

Men's Tear Ducts Make Them Look Stoic

Anna North — Wed, 04 May 2011 19:15:00 EDT

One reason men seem to cry less than women is that they have deeper tear ducts, so their eyes take longer to fill up and spill over. However, scientists also have a hard time telling how much tears vary by gender — says one, "We [...] think men are underreporting their crying." More »

Lady-Tears Are Total Bonerkillers

Anna North — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:00:00 EST

Scientists have found that women's tears reduce men's arousal. They're not sure why — but we have some thoughts. More »

Palin Says There's A "Double Standard" On Crying

Anna North — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:52:00 EST

On today's Good Morning America, Sarah Palin talked about the usual — tax cuts, American values, 2012 — but she also had some interesting things to say about John Boehner's waterworks. More »

John Boehner's Crying Jags Receive Their Own Times Profile

Lauri Apple — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:40:00 EDT

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This week Congressman John Boehner became the most powerful crying person in Congress. To celebrate, the New York Times has reviewed Boehner's tear-stained history, recounting some of the future House speaker's emo-est moments. Decline of manliness! More »

How To Deal With Public Weepers

Anna North — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:55:00 EDT

The Awl calls it "The Question That Confronts Every New Yorker Eventually," but really it comes up in every city and many a college campus as well: should you comfort someone crying in public? More »

When Getting Older Makes You A Crybaby

Anna North — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:25:00 EDT

A psychiatrist writes, "I've witnessed time and again the healing power of tears." But what happens when time just makes you weepier? More »

Witness: Chris Brown Used Fake Tears For MJ Tribute

Margaret Hartmann — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:40:00 EDT

Chris Brown's self-serving BET Awards breakdown gets even worse: A source claims Chris used tear-inducing eye drops before taking the stage. His rep denies it, but the eyewitness insists, "He rubbed it in and started crying." [Us via The Superficial] More »

Why Women Cry: Because We're Pissed Off

Jessica Coen — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:00:00 EDT

Only the most shameless woman cries to manipulate an argument. And for that she should be tarred and feathered, because she perpetuates the idea that tears are shed in rational self-interest. THERE IS NOTHING RATIONAL ABOUT IT. More »

Crying Hasselbeck Apologizes To Erin Andrews

Jessica Coen — Wed, 05 May 2010 11:30:01 EDT

After suggesting yesterday that stalking victim Erin Andrews was kinda asking for trouble with her sexy Dancing With the Stars outfits, View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck has tearfully offered her apology for being an asshole. Forgive her, oh forgive her, please. More »

Little Boy Cries When Dad Tells Him He's Not A "Single Lady"

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:40:00 EDT

At least this dad — who made his son cry while the kid was trying to rock out to Beyoncé's hit, telling the kid, "You're not a single lady, buddy" — admits that he is horrible! [BuzzFeed] More »

Cry Me A River

Sadie Stein — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:20:00 EDT

A researcher at Tel Aviv University has found evidence, in a study on the evolutionary imperative for crying, that tears have the benefits of helping "build and strengthen personal relationships" amongst people. Related: It also feels good! [Eurekalert] More »

"And Then My Tears Would Start Anew"

Anna North — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:20:00 EDT

Easily Mused has an exhaustive list of reasons "why chicks cry" in romance comics. These reasons include sunburns, an unsightly elbow wart, having weird reflections (see pic), and, more generally, dudes. (And in the case of Lichenstein, self-pity/martyrdom.) [Easily Mused] More »

New Book Documents Kids Scared Of Santa • Women Prefer Internet To Sex

Maria — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:30:00 EST

• A new book called Scared of Santa: Scenes of Terror in Toyland documents 250 screaming children perched on the lap of mall Santas across the country. • More »

Did Stephen Colbert shed some secret liberal...

Jessica G. — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:45:00 EST

Did Stephen Colbert shed some secret liberal tears after Jon Stewart announced that Obama had been elected last night? The sleuths at Jossip claim that Colbert broke with his Republican blowhard alter ego and cried a bit when he heard Obama won. Click on Stephen's pensive face for video evidence and decide for yourself. [Jossip] More »

For Some Dudes, There Is Crying In Baseball

Jessica G. — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:30:00 EDT

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So the BBC has a list of 10 Things That Make Blokes Cry, and while it's stereotypical to say that dudes don't cry that much and blah blah, most men are not big on crying in front of others. The BBC hits on most of the big reasons for manly misting, from being dumped to having a baby to losing at baseball (or having your favorite team lose at baseball). They left a major dude crying trigger out: the loss of a pet. I remember the only time I ever really saw my father weep was when our Siberian Husky was put down. More »

For The First Time In Reality History, Rodeo Has Difficulty Crying

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:00:00 EDT

I don't really watch I Love Money to get involved in the competition but because I'd rather just kind of sit back and observe these people get drunk and make out and fight; it's kinda like reading a magazine but only looking at the pictures. But on last night's episode, the challenge was so good: The contestants all had to make themselves cry. They were allowed to use tools like onions, cigar smoke, hot sauce, and cayenne pepper, but one member of each team was restricted from using the tools and was only allowed to cry on command. Obviously, hilarity ensued. Clip above. More »

Kardashian Sisters Laugh In Kim's "Ugly Face"

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:40:00 EDT

On last night's episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, the "civil war" raged on as the family went on a ski trip together, which only heightened tensions between Kim and her sisters. (This whole fight, if you remember, started over Kim buying a Bentley.) This time, the entire family seemed to be ganging up on Kim, reducing her to tears, which sister Kourtney ended up laughing in her face about, because she has "an ugly crying face." Clip above. More »

Angry Women In The Workplace Seen As "Less Competent" Than Men

Jessica G. — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:30:00 EDT

Yale psychologist Victoria Brescoll has confirmed what has long been the suspicion of many women: you cannot afford to get angry at the office if you own a vagina. According to science news site EurekAlert, Brescoll's study, published in the March issue of Psychological Science, showed that "People accept and even reward men who get angry but view women who lose their temper as less competent." The study involved showing subjects videos of male and female actors applying for a job; aterwards, the viewers were asked to rate the "applicants" on how competent they were, how much salary they deserved, and if they should be hired or not. "Both men and women in the reached the same conclusions," notes EurekAlert, "Angry men deserved more status, a higher salary, and were expected to be better at the job than angry women," regardless of the level of job for which the fake applicants were applying. More »

Do You Cry Because You're Angry, Or Because You're Sad?

Jessica G. — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:00:00 EST

Guess what? Today there was a Daily Mail article we didn't entirely disagree with! The article in question uses Hillary's most recent cry as a jumping off point to discuss the difference between male and female tears. The writer, Carol Sarler, implies that women cry for a number of nuanced reasons, while men mostly weep due to the "basics": "bereavement, heartbreak and Arsenal losing at home." Obviously this is an enormous generalization, but we did a small sampling of Jezebels and Jezeboys, and we found Sarler to be fairly spot on with her assessment! Where she goes off the rails into Daily (Hate) Mail territory is when she says that often women cry in order to manipulate: the oldest derogatory stereotype in the book. Anyway, after the jump, we offer up some of the reasons we weep. The results may surprise you. More »

Democratic Tear Ducts

mcarpentier — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:45:00 EST

Campaigning in Connecticut this morning, Hillary Clinton cried, and apparently, this time there were actual tears! What, she couldn't cry when she won New Hampshire, Nevada or Florida? She only does it right before big primaries when her biggest opponent is gaining in the polls? Way to lend credence to the charges that the first big choke was all premeditated (though, at least this time Chris Matthews, etc. will know better than to breathe a word about it). [Chicago Tribune] More »

NY Times Op-Ed contributor Judith Warner...

Anna Holmes — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:20:00 EST

NY Times Op-Ed contributor Judith Warner in today's "Domestic Disturbances" column: "I don't for a moment begrudge Hillary her victory on Tuesday. But if victory came for the reasons we've been led to believe - because women voters ultimately saw in her, exhausted and near defeat, a countenance that mirrored their own - then I hate what that victory says about the state of their lives and the nature of the emotions they carry forward into this race. I hate the thought that women feel beaten down, backed into a corner, overwhelmed and near to breaking point, as Hillary appeared to be in the debate Saturday night. And I hate even more that they've got to see a strong, smart and savvy woman cut down to size before they can embrace her as one of their own." [NY Times] More »

Hillary Clinton's Crying Still Hot Topic Among Hot-Under-The Collar Critics

Jessica G. — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:30:00 EST

Hillary Clinton's now infamous "cry" happened a full three days ago, and yet media pundits, particularly the female ones, are still chiming in. First up is Germaine Greer in the Guardian. The Australian rabblerouser/feminist, (seen at left), doesn't think Hillary's "tears" were genuine at all and goes on to say that "watching Hillary Clinton pretending to get teary-eyed is enough to make me give up shedding tears altogether. The currency, you might say, has become devalued." She takes a U-turn from there and goes off in a semi-coherent rant in which she basically says that no one should cry, ever. "Crying can be unpardonable self-indulgence," Greer writes. "An adult should not cry in front of children, because the sight and sound fill them with dread." [Uh, I'd say it's the other way around! -Ed.] More »

Moe: "It's Not Crying If There's No SNOT." Megan: "No, I Cried Without Snot At American Pie!"

Moe — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:00:27 EST

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Really? That was supposed to constitute crying? A few imperceptible sniffles and suddenly John "If your son was dead maybe you'd feel okay getting $400 haircuts too" Edwards is all "time for some masculine steely resolve"? Yeah, I don't think so. Here's the thing about crying: it's the purest — and vulgarest and most abusable — physical manifestation of and/or appeal to one's "empathy gene." Hillary chokes up and says she has so many ideas about how to run the country, and it reminds us of the time we moved out of the first apartment we shared with a livein and thought OMG we had so many ideas about how we were going to, like, paint shit together. Oh sure, a dude looks at our "ideas" and probably claims he sees "romantic delusions" (and probably also, "drama.") And fair enough. But without tears how can you adequately express the simple sadness when grim reality gets in the way of the dreams you dared to dream, the hopes you so AUDACIOUSLY held? Or, uh, react when Tara Reid loses her virginity in American Pie? We discuss Hillary's crying in a very sappy crappy hour ATJ. More »

Can A Woman Cry & Be Taken Seriously?

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:00:00 EDT

It was over a week ago that Ellen DeGeneres had a meltdown over a dog named Iggy. But the repercussions carry on: As Jocelyn Noveck reports in USA Today:"It can be easier for a crying man to be taken seriously than a crying woman." Especially in an election year. Tom Lutz, a professor at the University of California, Riverside, who wrote Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears, says "Bill [Clinton] could cry, and did, but Hillary can't." Apparently, there's a double standard: A recent Penn State study sought to explore the different perceptions of crying between men and women. They found that reactions depended on the type of crying, and who was doing it. Watery eyes were viewed more positively than sobbing, and males got the most positive responses. As in, crying women were viewed negatively. More »

If Paris Hilton Actually Has A Nervous Breakdown, We're Going To Hell For Posting This Photo

Anna Holmes — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:51:22 EDT

[Los Angeles, June 8. Image via INF]