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Blokes in tears are Browning mPosté le 18/03/2010 à 10:26 - Laisser un commentaireTHE question this week: Is it permissible for grown men to cry in public? And if it is, is it permissible to laugh at them once they start? It sounds harsh, I know. But we have had more blubbering blokes recently than at any time since Kylie Minouge confirmed she would not be posing for Playboy, after all. Now, I'm not one to come down hard on the male of the species expressing his emotions. Break a leg and it is fine to stroke one's chin pensively. Miss last orders at a bar and feel free to compose a sonnet of remorse. But please, can we call a halt to the current orgy of lachrymosity, which is starting to make Tiny Tears look like Steven Seagal? First off we have Prime Minister Gordon Brown blubbering away in an interview with Piers Morgan. Now I accept having to talk to an idiot like Morgan would be enough to upset anyone, but we are talking about the leader of the nation here. Yes, there were personal reasons for the tears; but Brown should really be able to control such things in public. Blimey, no wonder we don't have an Empire any more. At best Brown looked silly. At worst it made you imagine some cynical ploy by his spin doctors to try to get us to vote for his lame-duck Labour Party. Parmigiani Fake'We've tried him smiling; let's have a go at him crying.' Pish! Replica Zenith Watch Talking of spin doctors Alastair Campbell has been turning on the waterworks too. Very disappointing from a bloke so cynical that as a child one imagines him writing press releases defending the spider's position in the 'Little Miss Muffet' affair. Even that usually reliable curmudgeon, Simon Cowell, has gone all lovey-dovey on us, insisting his new squeeze is 'the one'. His agent, Max Clifford, said: "For the first time since I've known him, I would say Simon's in love." Forgetting to add: "With someone apart from himself of course." But what has all this to do with the wonderful world of sport, I hear you cry? Well, when it comes to shedding the odd tear our sportsman have been indulging for years. No one will ever forget Gazza at Italia '90 sobbing almost as much as that night he took his empties back and the off-licence was closed. Roger Federer, usually a man so emotionally inert your first impulse is to use him to prop a door open, burst into tears when he lost the Australian Open final last year. But perhaps sportsmen can be forgiven more than most the impulse to weep. For sport does indeed arouse strong feelings, arousing emotions many of us haven't experienced in years. In fact, even the most mundane of sports can set the pulses racing. During the university boat race each year, for instance, many of those watching on TV are known to stir in their sleep for a few seconds. While the first morning of a Test match can prompt some men to actually want to put up that shelf they've been putting up off attacking for six months. But what is to blame for men now seemingly being unable to stop themselves shedding a tear, irrespective of where they are or who they are with? I blame women, of course, who for years ghd iv styler have been banging on about blokes not being in touch
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