In reply to Robert Durran:
> I actually wonder whether there is something a bit sexist going on against men showing emotion.
Just re-read this and I remember attending a women in adventure thing at SHAFF a few years ago and one of the women in the panel said something about how there should be fewer videos of women crying (I think this was after a viewing of that film where Mina quits comp climbing) because it enforces a stereotype of women being overly emotional, and I just thought - hold on, surely the opposite is true, surely we want more videos of men crying, not fewer women crying.
Edit: for what it's worth one of the best moments of my life was about 100m below the summit of Mount Foraker, just as a 6 hour midsummer Alaska sun set/rise was at peak intensity - I started crying quite a lot as it became clear that we were going to make it (things had gotten quite intense not long before) and then realised that both Pete and Will were also bawling their eyes out. Men should definitely feel okay showing that sort of emotion.
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