My son and I were having a discussion back when he entered collage. He told me his professors encouraged the men in the class to check out the crying room on campus. He asked me what I thought about it. My response was that, yes, a man can certainly cry, but he should limit those occasions. If his mother died, or his dog got hit by a car, but all means cry. But if his choice in political candidate lost an election or some bill was passed that he disagreed with, knock off the crying. Instead, go out and "do". When the going gets tough, no man's wife is comforted watching her husband break down and cry. She expects him to rise to action and get the family out of danger. If afterwards, you need to cry, find a quiet place away from everyone and go to town.
100,000 plus years of evolution have programed and designed men to do what is required to protect and preserve their families when the going gets tough. Of course we want men to be more empathetic and demonstrative, but I would argue that in many ways, they demonstrate these traits already by their actions. Not always, and there are exceptions, and by all means men can reject everything I just stated if they choose, but attacking men for being males and acting as males is destructive. To be clear, I am not talking about behaviors that are just crass, rude, and insensitive. As I stated earlier, being a jerk is not being a man. It's just being a jerk. Going after men for inherently embracing traditional male traits is wrong.