I, as a woman, got a slightly different but similar "training" in that I was too sensitive. It is my experience that men are not comfortable with women crying (partially because they aren't comfortable with their own feelings?) and women can be thought of as crying too much or being "*****y"/moody, etc. which is a similar negative judgement. Woman sometimes are allowed to express feelings but I don't think they're accepted a whole lot better than men's non-expression is. I don't know if having them bottled up or having them and Self belittled because of them is worse? I think it's both sexes that aren't quite raised right in this regard.

Women are irrational, that's all there is to that!
Their heads are full of cotton, hay, and rags!
They're nothing but exasperating, irritating,
vacillating, calculating, agitating,
maddening and infuriating hags!

Lerner, Alan Jay and Lowe, Frederick, "A Hymn to Him" from My Fair Lady Soundtrack Lyrics, http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/myfai...ahymntohim.htm