Cry Baby

You may or may not remember me saying in some of my previous posts that I am somewhat of an emotional guy. Also in an odd way I contradict myself because quite frankly, sometimes I can be a bit of a heartless *expletive*. Having said that, when I am being mean, it's usually justified by stupidity and such the like and I just can't be bothered with all that. If you don't know something, don't pretend you do because I will prove you are talking crap and make you look like the idiot you are.

Anyhow, back to the point. Usually, yeah, we'll go with usually, I am a pretty emotional guy. I am fairly "lovey dovey", I like to cuddle and all that and although I'm a man (and that has been put to question a few times) I am not afraid of showing my emotions. If something makes me happy, you'll find me smiling all day - or at least until the aforementioned stupidity factor kicks in - and I like that because I like to make other people smile too. If something makes me angry then trust me when I say, you will know about it, the air goes blue because of my foul cursword rants and people tend to give me a wide berth. Then we get to when I'm sad.

Now before I go on because I am about to sound like a right dope, I don't cry all the time not even close. So there. I do however do a fair bit of crying when I watch sad films. At first the list was very short and for some reason only involved films with Tom Hanks in, which reminds me, I still need to write to him and tell him to stop it, but now the list is as long as my arm and still growing.

My girlfriend thinks it's ok but I think she has misplaced some memories about the amount of times she has seen me cry which, I'm pretty sure is a good thing because I just keep finding new films that make my eyes all puffy and full of tears. A prime example of my film induced teariness is The Notebook. If you haven't seen that already, watch it. Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams (I literally love her) are so brilliant, you might actually think they're together. They aren't though, Rachel McAdams is actually my girlfriend. Obviously.

Yes, so the point again, I have seen this film three times. With an ex-girlfriend, many years ago, my current girlfriend (Rachel McAdams) and once by myself. Now the first two times, I cried. Not like blubbering and snivelling but I did, but then for reasons unknown, I decided to watch it by myself. There I was, eating Chinese food with some Coca-Cola to wash it down with then all of a sudden, tears. I was crying at new bits that I hadn't cried to before... Snivelling and sobbing commenced and only subsided until the bit that made me cry before came on then it all started again. What's that about?

So yeah, I'm not ashamed of all of this, well maybe a little, I think my male friends think it's a bit weird and I make jokes about it with my female friends. I really don't understand how it seems to be getting worse though. That is that I am becoming more prone to these film induced crying fits, seriously, don't even get me started on Forrest Gump otherwise we'll be here all bloody day.

So all in all, I have confessed once again being in touch with my femenine and now I pose the question to you... Is it ok for a dude to cry?

Please submit all answers on a postcard and the best one will be picked at random for a prize of my choosing. Don't get your hopes up.