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四川省泸州市2019-2020学年高一下学期英语期末考试试卷
This isn't just a social expectation. One study found that women cry greatly more than men do-five times as often, on average, and almost twice as long each time. So it's perhaps surprising to learn that the sex gap in crying seems to be a recent development. Historically, men regularly cried, and no one saw it as shameful. For example, in the early stories, men cried purely because they missed their girlfriends. There's n mention of the men in these stories pretending(假装)1o have. something in their eyes or making an excuse to leave the room. Instead, they cried in a crowded hall with their heads held high and nobody made fin of them.
So where did all the male tears go? There was no anti-crying movement. No leaders of church or state discouraged them. Possibly this change took place as we moved to an industrial society. In the Middle Ages, most people spent their lives among those they had known since birth. Most of them related by blood or marriage. If men cried, they did so with people who would feel and understand the same way. But from the 18th to 20th centuries, people were living among thousands of strangers. Furthermore, changes in the economy required men to work in factories or offices where emotional expression was discouraged as time wasting.
Yet there's reason to believe that holding back tears can be harmful to your well-being. Research has suggested a relationship between stress-related illnesses and inadequate(不足的)crying. Men holding back tears are less likely than women to get help when they're suffering from unhappiness, which, in turn, results in higher self-killing rates as well as higher rates of alcoholism(酗酒)and drug addiction.
It's time to open the floodgates. When bad luck strikes, let us all, men and women, join together and cry until our sleeves are wet through.
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