The Crying Game: Dealing With Tears at Work

In a Q&A session with voters the day before a 2008 presidential primary, former White House-hopeful Hillary Clinton got a little choked up during her response to a question. She didn't bawl or wail or even leave the stage to regroup in private. Her eyes watered, she continued to answer the question, and then she moved on to another topic. She handily won the primary the next day.
TV pundits and bloggers couldn't stop talking about her. Not her politics but her "show of emotion." They wondered how people would respond: Was it the end of her campaign? Was it a setback for women? Was it staged to get attention?
Her response, for what it's worth, was that her desire to improve the country kept her going during the longest presidential primary campaign in the history of the United States. Although few high profile politicians shed tears on the campaign trail, did that moment really merit all the hoopla?

"Though I don't think anyone should cry on purpose, a spontaneous cry is only damaging to the person who feels they are weak because they are crying," she says. "It is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of being human."

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Particularly this article drew me in because one of my besties J whom I had the pleasure of working with for 4 1/2 years told me that she was crying at her desk. This was the girl that up holds my up most respect not only on a personal leval but a perfessional one also. See I have found myself many times crying at work. All the times that I did that I felt weak or under the men that I work among. When J told me of her insedent it finally hit me...it is not because we are weak it is because we are not only emotional women we are Human. I am glad I found this article because it is good to know that it is not only J & I that have cried at work.