Crying is a weakness, but that’s what made this so intense — they broke him down. And he strikes me as the kind of guy who rarely gets so shaken up. Determined athelete, determined student — driven by his father.
— Testosterone of a T-Rex —
Guys like that don’t want to be seen that way.
It took great evil to drive him to such a point in public.
Who would have ever thought that during a he-said-she-said investigation/trial of attempted-rape, that the female alleged victim would have tried & utterly failed to fake tears and to fake choking up, while OTOH it was the male alleged attacker who tried to keep his composure but choked up! (when talking about his little girl, who he obviously loves so dearly.)
Tears are a strange phenomenon.
They can arise from great sadness and from great joy.