Boys Do Cry

There’s widespread social concern that boys and men are not allowed to express their tender emotions. What if it’s a myth?

It was a particularly cruel heckling. Ketel Marte, a star baseball player for the Arizona Diamondbacks, was brought to tears by a heckler who shouted derogatory comments about Marte’s late mother, Elpidia Valdez, who died in a car crash in 2017. Fortunately, Marte was consoled on the field by the Diamondbacks’ manager, Torey Lovullo, and the heckler has…