Crying is a way to reduce stress. I see it as people who cry too much are imbalanced people with poor ways to cope with their emotions. They're unstable.
If you hit a tragic event where the amount of stress is unbareable, that's okay to use crying to release it. Hearing your parent just died or losing a great pet/best friend is not something most people are prepared to cope with immediately. As long as you aren't milking it and using your bad situation to milk sympathy from others it's fine.
Crying about day-to-day situations or things that most people go through tells me you have no idea how to cope with easy situations laid before you.
Agreed. I think of it on the context of babies and children, where parents try to suppress it, with bad results. A healthy adult (man or woman) won't be encountering situations regularly that are that stressful unless something is wrong in the environment (death of loved one, violent living situation/government, natural disasters).
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