It is proven: men cry even during sad movies

The biggest trauma from my childhood: Mufasa dying in The Lion King. I've been seriously affected by it. Look, the fact that those springbok creatures (or whatever they are) trample him in large numbers is already bad enough, but that scene afterwards breaks my heart into a thousand pieces. That heartbreaking piano. Simba shouting ‘Dad, Dad! Dad!!! Wake up!’ pressing his little head against his father. The determination, then the defeat. ‘Dad? DAD???’ Aarrrgh, it's going to be an impossible task to get through this scene in the new live action version watch.

Now I must say that I am a huge crybaby during movies. I almost choked on my own tears at the plot of Collateral Beauty with Will Smith (yep, Lilian can confirm this because she was sitting next to me on the plane with a similar pout). Oh wait, and otherwise there's this video any evidence at all. Anyway, I'm already completely off track. Most women reading this cry-baby-at-movie message will understand what I'm talking about. The thing is, though, that when we watch a movie with men, we get the idea that we are the aliens because they stay dry during the most impossible scenes. They. Don’t. Even. Blink.

We think, right. Because now comes the kicker: that is not true at all. Pathé Thuis conducted research on the phenomenon of ‘crying during sad movies’ and it turns out that more than a quarter of men have cried at an animated film. This compared to almost 60 percent of women who report regularly wiping away a tear at an emotional scene, but still. It's the men who surprise me. Two-thirds of the surveyed men under 24 indicate that they sometimes fight back tears. Older men have a bit less trouble with that. Movies in which people or animals die are the hardest for men to watch. 34 percent admit to getting misty-eyed at the terrible scenes in animated films like The Lion King and Bambi.

HA. SEE?.

No idea what point I actually want to make.

Maybe just mystery unraveled. Or something.

They cry.

And also at Bambi.

Drop the mic.