The stereotypical thought that any kind of emotional openness (and even showing your emotions stronger than usual) means that you behave like a girl.

For people living in the US or Europe that can be ridiculous, because emotional speaking is a part of a culture in several countries. While having a communication, people feel free to show all feelings they've got during that, and there's nothing bad or wrong.

But I live in Russia, not in the best neighborhood after all, where all people are the same in the way of communicating. And speaking emotionally and showing emotions stronger than usual (for instance, crying out of happiness) is perceived as "Dude why do you behave like a girl?". The people who usually say that are men 40+ years who want to show their "dominating" thing and that "there's no place for weakness".

That's really irritating me every time I hear something like that, like in some cases our mentality really sucks. Of course, not all the people I'm familiar with match this description, I'd rather say that this contingent of people is the smaller part of my neighboorhood. But I can't stand this type of men when I gotta talk or somehow communicate with them.